International Herald Tribune back issues from October 2006:
South Korean hoping to reflect nation's rise Front-runner to succeed Annan at UN mixes a quick smile with quiet tenacity
Oct 02, 2006; ... Choe Sang-Hun International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 In 1962, a secondary-school student from a rural town in South Korea, then among the world's poorer nations, won an English-language speech contest sponsored by the American Red Cross and was invited to the White House to meet ...
Hamas and Fatah shoot it out in GazaProtest to demand payment of salaries turns into gun battle
Oct 02, 2006; ... Steven Erlanger International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Taghreed El-Khodary reported from Gaza and Khaled Abu Aker from Ramallah in the West Bank.* Hamas and Fatah gunmen fought running battles in Gaza on Sunday, as Hamas forces tried to disrupt Fatah-organized protests over unpaid ...
India struggles to tap the monsoon Floods cripple some areas while others remain parched
Oct 02, 2006; ... Somini Sengupta International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Early on a Monday morning during the August monsoon, after several days of torrential rains, the engineers in charge of the Ukai Dam upstream from this diamond-polishing hub faced a harrowing crisis.The massive dam stands 105 ...
Austria turns, slightly, to left People's Party dealt a rebuke by voters
Oct 02, 2006; ... Mark Landler International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 In an election shadowed by fears about immigration, voters in Austria rebuked the governing People's Party on Sunday, handing a narrow victory to the Social Democratic Party and leaving two extreme-right parties as outspoken ...
A White House divide on detainees Memo underscores debate on U.S. policy
Oct 02, 2006; ... Tim Golden International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 In June 2005, two senior national security officials in the Bush administration came together to propose a sweeping new approach to the growing problems the United States was facing with the detention, interrogation and prosecution ...
Thai junta taking a hard line on rightsSeverest elements of military rule to be extended for a year
Oct 02, 2006; ... Thomas Fuller International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Thailand's military rulers unveiled an interim Constitution on Sunday that extends draconian emergency laws for another year and gives the military significant sway over the new government and its prime minister, Surayud ...
For Egyptians, life is a bowl of ful CITYSCAPE / CAIRO
Oct 02, 2006; ... Michael Slackman International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Jano Charbel contributed reporting.*Tucked beneath a highway overpass, just beside the railroad tracks, and behind a parked taxi, Farouk Salem's eyes dart back and forth nervously as he awaits customers. The sun has barely ...
Democrats come out swinging against FoxLetter from America
Oct 02, 2006; ... Lorne Manly International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 The Fox News Channel doesn't officially turn 10 until this week, but the Democrats have already begun doing their best to spoil the celebrations.The party crashing began last Sunday, when former President Bill Clinton transformed an ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1906: Warships in Havana
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 HAVANA: Following the landing of 450 marines last evening and their starting by rail for Cienfuegos, 750 more landed this morning [Oct. 1] from the Kentucky Indiana and Minneapolis and were taken by trolley cars to Camp Columbia. The passing ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1931: Acid Burns N.Y. Crowds
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 NEW YORK: An experiment with the United States navy dirigible Los Angeles over New York last night [Oct. 1] caused discomfort and loss to thousands of spectators and for a time threatened to cause panic in the streets. The big airship was ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1956: Eisenhower Campaigns
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 LEXINGTON, Kentucky: President Eisenhower told Americans tonight they can look forward to 70,000,000 jobs ''at good wages'' if they re-elect him and reject what he said is the Democrats' ''zigzag directionless road of trial and error.'' Mr ....
Tory leader urges British opposition to stake out 'center ground'
Oct 02, 2006; ... Alan Cowell International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 David Cameron, the leader of Britain's Conservative opposition, sought Sunday to shift his party away from the steely legacy of Margaret Thatcher, urging it to claim a ''center ground'' where ''you find the concern, the hopes and ...
Ouster of Hungarian leader is urged President speaks after local voting
Oct 02, 2006; ... Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Hungary's president, Laszlo Solyom, speaking on national public television Sunday just as the polls closed in local government elections, asked Parliament to oust Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany for lying to the country about the ...
Serbia reasserts claim to rule over Kosovo New charter would exclude breakaway
Oct 02, 2006; ... Nicholas Wood International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Serbia's government has reinforced its defiant stance over Kosovo, adopting a new constitution that it hopes will exclude any possibility of independence for the disputed province.The Parliament voted overwhelmingly Saturday to ...
Hungarians voting after protests Local elections read for a national trend
Oct 02, 2006; ... Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany of Hungary, facing his first political test since anti-government protests erupted in Budapest and other cities over two weeks ago, said Sunday that the results from nationwide local government ...
India says Pakistan helped plan July blastsIslamabad quickly rejects accusations
Oct 02, 2006; ... Anand Giridharadas International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 In a declaration likely to increase tensions on this subcontinent, the Indian police are accusing Pakistan's intelligence agency of being behind the July 11 train bombings that killed more than 180 people in Mumbai.Officials ...
Aid pours into Lebanon, but no relief for residents Funds from abroad are held up in Beirut
Oct 02, 2006; ... Michael Slackman International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Nada Bakri contributed reporting.* A ride through the south of Lebanon, across rutted and bombed out roads, past a landscape of twisted metal and crumbled concrete, reveals little progress toward rebuilding tens of thousands of ...
Death toll from Philippine storm climbs; 100 still missing
Oct 02, 2006; ... Carlos H. Conde International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 The death toll in the typhoon that battered the Philippines last week, the worst in more than a decade, climbed to 76 by Sunday, with rescuers still searching for more than 100 missing or feared dead.Officials said Sunday that ...
In fight over prisoners, Cheney shows his clout
Oct 02, 2006; ... Tim Golden International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 In June 2005, two Bush national security officials proposed a sweeping new approach to the growing problems Washington was facing with the detention, interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects.Gordon England, acting deputy ...
Scandal over e-mail escalates Republicans knew of contact with page
Oct 02, 2006; ... Brian Knowlton International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Carl Hulse and Raymond Hernandez of The New York Times contributed reporting. * Democrats expressed outrage Sunday that Republican leaders had waited nearly a year to tell them about inappropriate e-mails between Representative ...
Report of meeting alarms Sept. 11 panel CIA is said to have warned Rice of attack
Oct 02, 2006; ... Philip Shenon International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Members of the Sept. 11 commission said Sunday that they were alarmed they were told nothing about a July 2001 White House meeting at which George Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to have warned ...
Thai junta shores up role in politics Interim constitution sets out strict laws
Oct 02, 2006; ... Thomas Fuller International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 The military rulers of Thailand unveiled an interim constitution on Sunday that extends draconian emergency laws for another year and gives the military significant sway over the new government and its prime minister, Surayud ...
Missteps said to aid Taliban resurgence
Oct 02, 2006; ... David Rohde International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the Taliban leadership and their Qaeda allies must be pleased.When the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan visited the United States last week, they got into an ugly public spat over ...
Republicans kept lid on lawmaker's e-mail Inappropriate messages sent to teenager
Oct 02, 2006; ... Carl Hulse and Raymond Hernandez International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail traffic between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page but kept the matter secret and allowed the Florida Republican to remain head of a ...
The damage done to America's army
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Even if there were a case for staying the current course in Iraq, America's badly overstretched army cannot sustain present force levels much longer without long-term damage. And that could undermine the credibility of American foreign policy ...
Asia will welcome a more outgoing Japan
Oct 02, 2006; ... Philip Bowring International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 China, and some Koreans, worry about a resurgence of nationalism and a revision of Japan's pacifist Constitution under its new prime minister, Shinzo Abe. But most of the rest of Asia will welcome indications from Abe that Japan ...
The 'war on terror' that ruined Rome Democracy
Oct 02, 2006; ... Robert Harris International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 In the autumn of 68 B.C. the world's only military superpower was dealt a profound psychological blow by a daring terrorist attack on its very heart. Rome's port at Ostia was set on fire, the consular war fleet destroyed, and two ...
Darfur's deadly poison spreads
Oct 02, 2006; ... Nicholas D. Kristof International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 My aim in bringing Casey Parks, the winner of my contest for university students, to this war-torn land wasn't to have her held at gunpoint. That was quite an accident both times.My purpose was actually to emphasize the ...
The White House needs to lose its Mideast myths
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 It has taken five and a half years, but at least some of President George W. Bush's aides have begun to acknowledge the patently obvious: There needs to be a serious effort to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Without one, the United ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORFixing the Security Council
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 There are two weaknesses in the arguments presented by G. John Ikenberry and Anne-Marie Slaughter for increasing the number of permanent seats on the UN Security Council and removing some veto powers (''A bigger Security Council, with power to ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORShortwave is not dead
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Regarding ''Shortwave radio era looks short-lived'' (Sept. 25): The BBC, which eliminated its shortwave transmissions to Thailand earlier this year, no doubt regrets that decision now, given the recent coup and press censorship in thailand. At ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORHamas is the problem
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Robert Malley and Aaron David Miller miss the unfortunate reality that new initiatives to advance Arab-Israeli peace will inevitably face Iranian and Syrian machinations, while their terrorist proxies violently oppose any negotiated ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOREuropean visa policy
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Regarding ''A visa policy that crushes Balkan hopes'' by Jelko Kacin and Henrik Lax (Sept. 28): It is a shame that no members of the European Parliament appear to be concerned with the damage to European competitiveness done by the European ...
Iraq is breeding terrorism. So what's new?
Oct 02, 2006; ... Frank Rich International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 The furor in Washington over the latest National Intelligence Estimate is meaningless except as a damning election-year indicator of just how madly America's leaders are fiddling while Iraq burns.The supposedly shocking key finding ...
Islamofascism, anyone? LANGUAGE
Oct 02, 2006; ... William Safire International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Every war is entitled to a name. World War II was a warmed-over name, and the Korean conflict was not at first even given the name of "war," which Vietnam rated until it was overtaken by "syndrome." And not until 1947 was ...
Cavalli and Missoni's graceful finale: Nod to noble women The Collections / Milan
Oct 02, 2006; ... Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Softness, grace and a gentle way forward was fashion's pleasant surprise at the end of the Italian shows. Leaving some of the best looks to last, the retro futurism of metal mesh and vinyl faded away, making Missoni and Roberto ...
Versace: From Prince to prints, a shining moment The Collections / Milan
Oct 02, 2006; ... Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Donatella Versace bowed to her Prince, the singing one, in the front row, and then the designer held her head up high.She deserved to. For while other designers in Milan's fashion week have been rifling the archives of her late ...
Iceberg, anything but cold The Collections / Milan
Oct 02, 2006; ... Jessica Michault International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Giambattista Valli, designer of the Iceberg line sent out a sporty, fun-in-the-sun show, one filled with minidresses spiced up with a bit of athletic netting or industrial zippers snaking across the bodice. To toughen things up ...
Trend alert: Season highlights The Collections / Milan
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Legs: on display in barely-there shorts or wider cuffed styles.Skirts: short and rounded or long and soft. Nothing knee length.Dresses: volume in 1960s triangular shifts or high-waist bubbles; long and floaty.Pants: cropped, soft and wide, ...
A Corso Como paved with stars The Collections / Milan
Oct 02, 2006; ... Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Anyone can be a celebrity that is the feeling in this city now that the pedestrian-ized Corso Como has turned into a promenade for fledgling fashionistas. Once, this small street contained light industrial premises and food shops ...
At DSquared, a rollicking, postwar rompThe Collections / Milan
Oct 02, 2006; ... Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Only ''Volare'' was missing from the 1950s ''Carina, Carina'' soundtrack at the DSquared show, where the set was beachfront cafes and the mood was of carefree Italian postwar days. In this rollicking romp in Rimini, with models' ...
At Krizia, a little deja vu
Oct 02, 2006; ... Jessica Michault International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Sometimes the music that accompanies a show can give a good indication as to what the collection is all about.Case in point Krizia which opened with Shirley Bassey singing the line that ''it's all just a little bit of history ...
Tod's evergreen appeal The Collections / Milan
Oct 02, 2006; ... Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 The walls were covered with Dada words in black, surreal lips in scarlet, and of course, shoes. For this was one of the art-house presentations by Tod's who still manage to highlight the footwear.Add to all the new shoes such as ...
The 'monobrand' capital discovers the eclectic
Oct 02, 2006; ... Rebecca Voight International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 This city has notoriously been high and dry on great shops that mix designer labels. It falls in line with the old adage that shoemaker's children are badly shod.Sure, this is Europe's capital for luxury shopping, but that ...
One Good TurnBOOKS/Fiction
Oct 02, 2006; ... Janet Maslin International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 One Good Turn By Kate Atkinson418 pages. $24.99. Little, Brown & Co*Reviewed by Janet Maslin*The characters in Kate Atkinson's new book, ''One Good Turn,'' are a wee bit out of place in Edinburgh, where the story unfolds. They ...
Amazing entertainment: The thrill of getting lost
Oct 02, 2006; ... Alice Rawsthorn International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 What do you do with overgrown bushes? Prune them? Rip them out? Not if you're Adrian Fisher. When he noticed that the holly bushes in his parents' garden were straggling around the oak trees, he honed them into a maze.It is more ...
Hollywood tries to get grip on YouTube
Oct 02, 2006; ... Saul Hansell International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Chad Hurley presents a calm, almost detached demeanor, even as the Web site he runs, YouTube.com, has provoked a frenzy of consternation among executives of record labels, television networks and movie studios. For millions of ...
New firm, old faces? ON ADVERTISING
Oct 02, 2006; ... Eric Pfanner International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 When an advertiser's relationship with its agencies goes sour, a breakup is often the best course for everyone involved. But now some people in the London marketing world are grumbling about a new regulation that they say could ...
Irish plan on privacy puts media on notice
Oct 02, 2006; ... Thomas Crampton International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Miscreant models, wayward movie stars and errant elected officials, take note: the Irish government is pushing for a law that would expand your ability to shut down unflattering media coverage.The law could have an impact well ...
As voice fades, radio host tells of disease
Oct 02, 2006; ... Eric Taub International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 The listeners were concerned: Was it possible that Charles McPhee, the syndicated radio personality, was broadcasting his show while drunk?No, but the answer turned out to be even more devastating McPhee is suffering from amyotrophic ...
Investment by Singapore tangled in Thai coup
Oct 02, 2006; ... Wayne Arnold International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Among the many measures of a successful foreign investment, helping to trigger a coup d'etat is definitely not one of them.In hindsight, then, the $1.9 billion purchase of a controlling stake in Thailand's dominant ...
'Fast Money' gives CNBC needed fuel
Oct 02, 2006; ... Elizabeth Jensen International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 With Red Bull energy drinks stowed out of sight of the cameras, the men of the CNBC talk show ''Fast Money,'' a quartet of financial traders and the ringmaster Dylan Ratigan, began their pumped-up, sound-effects-laden ...
TV financial news for a smaller globe
Oct 02, 2006; ... Eric Pfanner International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 At CNBC's control room in London, television producers shout into their microphones, and news anchors in Singapore, New York and London jump on their cues. The scramble is a daily exercise at CNBC as it produces ''Worldwide ...
BOOKS / A sample of the week's best sellers
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 ARGENTINAFiction1. ''Ines del Alma Mia,'' by Isabel Allende (Sudamericana)2. Travesuras de la Nina Mala,'' by Mario Vargas Llosa (Aguilar)3. ''Las Viudas de los Jueves,'' by Claudia Pineiro (Arte Grafico)4. ''El Diablo Viste a la Moda,'' by ...
Amaranth to shut down
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Amaranth Advisors, the $9.2 billion hedge fund that lost $6.5 billion in less than a month, is preparing to shut down.Amaranth's founder, Nicholas Maounis, sent a letter to investors Friday night informing them that the fund was suspending all ...
Iran to back 'any' move by OPEC to lift oil pricesBRIEFING
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Iran, the second-biggest oil producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries after Saudi Arabia, considers international oil prices too low and said Sunday that it would support ''any'' OPEC measure that helped raise them. ''The ...
China set to maintain 'stability' of yuan's rateBRIEFING
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 China will maintain ''stability'' in the yuan's exchange rate as well as the country's monetary policies, the central bank has said. While the market will continue to play a ''fundamental'' role in setting the value of the yuan, the exchange ...
AIG opens unit to offer insurance for MuslimsBriefing
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 American International Group, the world's largest insurer, has opened a Bahrain-based unit offering policies that comply with Islamic principles as it bids to win new customers from among the world's 1.6 billion Muslims. The global market for ...
BRIEFING
Oct 02, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Bahrain will record economic growth this year of 7 percent, said Rasheed al-Majaj, the governor of the central ...
Airbus seen delaying A380 again
Oct 02, 2006; ... Andrea Rothman International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Airbus will scale back deliveries of the A380 superjumbo passenger jet for a third time and reduce costs by as much as 2 billion by cutting jobs and shifting production, three people with knowledge of the plans said. Airbus, ...
Bayer failed to report risks of drug
Oct 02, 2006; ... Gardiner Harris International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant, failed to reveal to U.S. regulators the results of a large study suggesting that a widely used heart-surgery medicine might increase the risks of death and stroke, the U.S. Food and Drug ...
Shareholders, there is hope NEW YORK
Oct 02, 2006; ... Gretchen Morgenson International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Sometimes the stars really do align for the greater good. A case in point was last month's landmark ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that opened the door to greater shareholder influence over ...
Yahoo attempts to mend some fences Stanford donation benefits journalists
Oct 02, 2006; ... Noam Cohen International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 In politics it might have been called a flip-flop: barely seven months after being excoriated for giving information about a professional journalist to Chinese authorities, Yahoo has donated $1 million to Stanford University's John ...
Alinta seeks board control of pipeline trust BUSINESS ASIA by Bloomberg
Oct 02, 2006; ... Hans van Leeuwen International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 Alinta, the biggest natural gas utility in Western Australia, will seek a majority of seats on the board of Australian Pipeline Trust as it fights a regulatory ruling that a third of its stake was illegally acquired.The utility ...
Airlines rally on falling oilAROUND THE MARKETSBUSINESS ASIA by Bloomberg
Oct 02, 2006; ... Chen Shiyin International Herald Tribune 10-02-2006 A rally in shares of Asian airlines could just be starting as fuel costs decline and travel booms in China and India, home to a third of the global population.''The market will start looking at these stocks,'' said Yoji Takeda, a ...