International Herald Tribune back issues from December 2006:
Bush resists idea of Iraq pullback, but agrees on faster security shift Maliki sees forces 'fully ready' by June
Dec 01, 2006; ... Sheryl Stolberg and David E. Sanger International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Sheryl Stolberg reported from Amman, David E. Sanger from Washington. David S. Cloud and Brian Knowlton contributed reporting from Washington.*President George W. Bush said Thursday that American troops would ...
Middle Eastern investors are buying into Asia
Dec 01, 2006; ... Heather Timmons International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 When the Bank of China began promoting a $10 billion stock offering last year, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia was interested, according to an adviser. But the prince, a big shareholder of Citigroup, was not sought as ...
Bush strongly backs Iraqi leader and rejects idea of a pullback He also resists any talks with Iran and Syria
Dec 01, 2006; ... Sheryl Stolberg and David E. Sanger International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Sheryl Stolberg reported from Amman, David E. Sanger from Washington. David S. Cloud and Brian Knowlton contributed reporting from Washington.*President George W. Bush on Thursday proclaimed Prime Minister ...
Germany to continue its hunt for Stasi spies
Dec 01, 2006; ... Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Seventeen years after the Berlin Wall fell, German legislators voted Thursday to revise and extend a law that mandates the investigation of Germans applying for senior public service jobs.Starting next year, all politicians, senior ...
Radiation turns up at 12 sites in LondonAs the spy mystery grows, Britain calls risk to public low
Dec 01, 2006; ... Sarah Lyall and Steven Lee Myers International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Steven Lee Myers reported from Moscow.*In yet another twist in the mystery surrounding Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy who died of radiation poisoning here a week ago, the British government said ...
Children with AIDS bolstered by a grantIndian firms' deal with Clinton to lower cost of care
Dec 01, 2006; ... Anand Giridharadas International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 The cost of treating children infected with HIV/AIDS is poised to plummet next year, under a deal announced Thursday between two Indian drug makers and the foundation of Bill Clinton, the former U.S. president.Cipla and ...
Global firms are named in China bribery lawsuit
Dec 01, 2006; ... David Barboza International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Three large multinational companies were named in a court verdict that sentenced the former head of China Construction Bank to 15 years in prison for accepting more than $500,000 in bribes, according to a copy of the court records ...
Asia turning to Middle East for capital'East-east' deals pressure the West
Dec 01, 2006; ... Heather Timmons International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 When the Bank of China began promoting a $10 billion stock offering last year, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia was interested, according to an adviser. But the prince, a big shareholder of Citigroup, was not initially ...
Top firms are named in China bribe caseIBM and NCR paid large 'service fees' to ally of bank head
Dec 01, 2006; ... David Barboza International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Three large multinational companies were named in a court verdict that sentenced the former head of China Construction Bank to 15 years in prison for accepting more than $500,000 in bribes, according to a copy of the court records ...
No honeymoon for Calderon in Mexico
Dec 01, 2006; ... James C. McKinley Jr. International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Felipe Calderon, a 44-year-old conservative son of middle-class opposition politician, was to become president of this increasingly polarized and violent country Friday, facing street protests over his paper-thin election, ...
U.S. moves to put limits on Kim's taste for luxury
Dec 01, 2006; ... Choe Sang-Hun International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Isolationist is hardly the word to describe the reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's foodie style. Over the decades, Communist officials have been scouring the world to cater to the Dear Leader's gourmet tastes, bringing ...
Search for 'Borat' finds a crackdown on piracyLetter from China
Dec 01, 2006; ... Howard W. French International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 It all began with a search for ''Borat.'' Yes, ''Borat,'' the popular and somewhat controversial comedy that spoofs life in the central Asia nation of Kazakhstan.One of the cheap pleasures of life in Shanghai has been the ...
Path cleared for arrest of ex-Mexican president
Dec 01, 2006; ... James C. McKinley Jr. International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 An appeals court has cleared the way for the arrest and trial of former President Luis Echeverria on genocide charges in connection with the massacre of student protesters in 1968. The court reversed earlier rulings that ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1906: Japanese In California
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 WASHINGTON: The Japanese question now overshadows almost every other question before the United States Government. It has assumed great importance not merely because it touches upon the United States relations with Japan, but also because it ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1931: Arms Truce
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 PARIS: France yesterday [Nov. 30] officially notified the League of Nations of its intention to observe the one-year armament truce which is due to begin today, provided France's neighbors ''do the same.'' France is the 21st country to declare ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1956: Revolt In Cuba
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 SANTIAGO: At least five persons were killed and ten wounded today [Nov. 30] in a revolutionary outbreak against the government of President Fulgencio Batista. The uprising started before dawn, when revolutionary groups of civilians attacked ...
French right's leader basks in growing supportLe Pen now the pick of 17% of electorate
Dec 01, 2006; ... Katrin Bennhold International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 While France's other presidential candidates are busy vying for airtime and holding campaign rallies, Jean-Marie Le Pen is heading off to the Caribbean for a two-week vacation.The veteran leader of the far-right National Front ...
African rarity: Honors for a white colonialist Mausoleum expense is criticized by some
Dec 01, 2006; ... Jeffrey Gettleman International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Issa Manuel Mossi contributed to this report.*It's not every day that an African country erects a statue in the busiest part of town to honor a white man.But Brazzaville has always had a trend-defying relationship with its ...
Corrections
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 An article Tuesday about the refurbishment of the Bode Museum on Museum Island in Berlin and other projects there referred ...
EU targets smuggling of African migrantsMore patrols aimed at preventing deaths
Dec 01, 2006; ... James Kanter International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Elisabetta Povoledo in Rome, Renwick McLean in Madrid and Katrin Bennhold in Paris contributed to this article.* Seeking to prevent another season of drowning off European coasts, officials said Thursday that round-the-clock ...
Serb's letter persuades U.S. to drop NATO bar
Dec 01, 2006; ... Brian Knowlton and Helene Cooper International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 U.S. officials said Thursday that they had dropped their opposition to a special Serbian partnership with NATO and possible future membership, after receiving an impassioned letter from President Boris Tadic ...
Pope, in gesture of reconciliation, prays at Blue Mosque
Dec 01, 2006; ... From news reports International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Pope Benedict XVI prayed alongside an Islamic cleric in Turkey's most famous mosque Thursday in a gesture to Muslims after outrage from the pontiff's remarks linking violence and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. Benedict ...
China's state church ordains bishop Appointment places more strain on relations with Vatican
Dec 01, 2006; ... Keith Bradsher International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 China installed a new bishop on Thursday over the objections of the Vatican, prompting Cardinal Joseph Zen here to issue a blistering statement accusing the authorities of having threatened and kidnapped Chinese bishops to make ...
U.S. ban targets high-living Kim regimeNorth Korean access to luxuries to be cut
Dec 01, 2006; ... Choe Sang-Hun International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Isolationist is hardly the word to describe the reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's foodie style. Over the decades, Communist officials have been scouring the world to cater to the Dear Leader's gourmet tastes, bringing ...
Legions of little fans blue after Yellow Wiggle walks
Dec 01, 2006; ... Tim Johnston International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 It may not be the break-up of the Beatles, but for the under-6 age group it is still traumatic news: Yellow Wiggle Greg Page is leaving the band.The children's entertainers known as the Wiggles are an Australian cultural ...
Extending reach of HIV drugs
Dec 01, 2006; ... Anand Giridharadas International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 The cost of treating children infected with HIV/AIDS is poised to plummet next year, under a deal announced Thursday between two Indian drug makers and the foundation of Bill Clinton, the former U.S. president.Cipla and ...
Hezbollah and allies plan sit-in for Beirut Rally aims to topple fragile government
Dec 01, 2006; ... Michael Slackman International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Nada Bakri contributed reporting.*Hezbollah and its political allies said Thursday that they planned to occupy the center of this city, beginning Friday, with a massive sit-in that would last as long as it took to force the ...
Bishop is ordained, drawing ire of cardinalBRIEFLY: HONG KONG
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 China installed a new bishop Thursday over the objections of the Vatican, prompting Cardinal Joseph Zen here to issue a blistering statement accusing the mainland authorities of having threatened and kidnapped bishops to make them participate ...
Abbas says talks with Hamas are again deadlocked
Dec 01, 2006; ... Helene Cooper International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Talks to form a national unity government are at a dead end again, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said Thursday, putting the Bush administration's plan to start pushing hard toward a Middle East peace initiative back ...
Perhaps art can provide answers for a torn Lebanon
Dec 01, 2006; ... Michael Slackman International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 The searing events of war, of spilled blood and shattered innocence, can provoke introspection and, when the guns have been laid down and the bodies buried, it can inspire art, too.Lebanon has been tied up with bloody post-war ...
Pope's Turkey remark: A real shift?
Dec 01, 2006; ... Elisabeth Rosenthal International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Speaking as pope and diplomat this week, Pope Benedict XVI appeared to reverse his prior position, telling Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey that he wished ''for Turkey's entry into the European Union,'' ...
Ancient Greeks had a computer that was really 1.0
Dec 01, 2006; ... John Noble Wilford International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 A computer in antiquity would seem to be an anachronism, like Athena ordering takeout on her cellphone.But a century ago, pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and dials were recovered from an ancient shipwreck off ...
Apology for man jailed as terrorist
Dec 01, 2006; ... Eric Lichtblau International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Brian Libby contributed reporting from Portland, Oregon.*The U.S. government has agreed to pay $2 million to an Oregon lawyer wrongly jailed in connection with the 2004 terrorist bombings in Madrid, and it has issued a formal ...
British Airways planes examined in spy's deathRadiation traces on 2 Moscow-route jets
Dec 01, 2006; ... Alan Cowell and Steven Lee Myers International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Steven Lee Myers reported from Moscow.*The case of the poisoned former KGB agent took a bizarre twist when British Airways said that traces of radiation had been detected on jets that flew between London and ...
Another mysterious illness (folo)British Airways planes examined in spy's deathRadiation traces on 2 Moscow-route jets
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Steven Lee Myers reported from Moscow*Yegor Gaidar, a former prime minister and architect of Russia's early post-Soviet shift to a market economy, has been hospitalized with a mysterious illness that his daughter and associates said could have ...
No quick exit from Iraq Even Democrats are accepting limits
Dec 01, 2006; ... David E. Sanger International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 In the cacophony of competing plans about how to deal with Iraq, one reality now appears clear: Despite the Democrats' victory last month in an election viewed as a referendum on the war, the idea of a rapid American troop ...
Government apologizes to lawyer jailed as terrorist
Dec 01, 2006; ... Eric Lichtblau International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Brian Libby contributed reporting from Portland, Oregon.*The U.S. government has agreed to pay $2 million to an Oregon lawyer wrongly jailed in connection with the 2004 terrorist bombings in Madrid, and it has issued a formal ...
Deal will extend reach of children's HIV drugs
Dec 01, 2006; ... Anand Giridharadas International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 The cost of treating children infected with HIV/AIDS is poised to plummet next year, under a deal announced Thursday between two Indian drug makers and the foundation of Bill Clinton, the former U.S. president.Cipla and ...
Mexico court clears way for arrest of ex-president
Dec 01, 2006; ... James C. McKinley Jr. International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 An appeals court has cleared the way for the arrest and trial of former President Luis Echeverria on genocide charges in connection with the massacre of student protesters in 1968.The court reversed earlier rulings that ...
Even generalists find beauty irresistible
Dec 01, 2006; ... Natasha Singer International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 In her three years as an obstetrician and gynecologist in Brooklyn, Dr. Ngozi Nwankpa-Keshinro delivered several hundred babies, conducted several thousand pelvic exams and diagnosed everything from infections to infertility. But ...
Relentless scourge takes endless toll on the girls of Africa
Dec 01, 2006; ... Sharon LaFraniere International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Fifty kilometers outside this down-at-the-heels seaside town, Justin Betombo tends his vanilla plants and cheers the local soccer team as if he had not a care in the world. And in fact, what was once his greatest worry has ...
Point to Point NavigationBooks/Nonfiction
Dec 01, 2006; ... Janet Maslin International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Point to Point Navigation By Gore Vidal 277 pages. $26. DoubledayReviewed by Janet Maslin*The title of Gore Vidal's ''Point to Point Navigation'' refers to the dangerous feat of steering a ship without the benefit of a compass. It ...
BRIDGE
Dec 01, 2006; ... Frank Stewart International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 'Your honor,'' the District Attorney intoned, ''we will prove West committed a felony: He handed South a hopeless game.''''West led his singleton club,'' the DA related, ''a good lead since he had a re-entry in trumps. Dummy won, ...
Eddie Murphy makes a serious comeback
Dec 01, 2006; ... Craig Modderno International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Amonth before the 2005 Academy Awards ceremony, the host, Chris Rock, stirred things up by declaring that he planned to hand Jamie Foxx a statue for his performance in ''Ray'' whether Oscar voters picked him or not. (Foxx won, ...
'The greatest story,' gracefully toldREVIEW
Dec 01, 2006; ... A.O. Scott International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 The Nativity StoryDirected by Catherine Hardwicke (U.S.)*It's best to think of ''The Nativity Story'' as a Hollywood version of the kind of Christmas production some of the ''Peanuts'' kids put on in ''A Charlie Brown Christmas.'' ...
Photo galleries are widening their focus
Dec 01, 2006; ... Philip Gefter International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Avast number of commercial galleries here show photographs. Many of them represent photography exclusively; some show photo-based art that incorporates other mediums; others are galleries that represent painters and sculptors ...
PEOPLE
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 A Malawian judge has ruled that Madonna's fitness to adopt a boy from that African nation would be decided in part by a group of human rights and child advocacy organizations, The Associated Press reported. The judge, Andrew Nyirenda, ruled ...
A Rockwell work sets $15.4 million record
Dec 01, 2006; ... Carol Vogel International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Abeloved Norman Rockwell painting that was discovered behind a false wall in a Vermont home last spring sold at Sotheby's this week for $15.4 million, a record price for the artist at auction. The image, ''Breaking Home Ties,'' ...
The new Golden Triangle Afghanistan II
Dec 01, 2006; ... Antonio Maria Costa International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan are shaping up to be the new Golden Triangle. For decades that dubious epithet belonged to Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, which were notorious for producing opium and heroin. Now, Laos and ...
How to beat the opium economy Afghanistan III
Dec 01, 2006; ... Jorrit Kamminga and Peter van Ham International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 At NATO's summit meeting in Riga this week, one thing was undisputed: In order to save Afghanistan from turning into a narco-state the all-invasive drug industry has to be crushed. The opium business sustains a ...
Hedging on hedge funds
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 In October, a month after the Amaranth hedge fund lost $6.6 billion the most ever by a hedge fund Henry Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary, spoke with Bloomberg News about the importance of ''transparency'' at hedge funds and ''liquidity'' ...
NATO's failure portends a wider war Afghanistan I
Dec 01, 2006; ... Ahmed Rashid International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 The abysmal failure of NATO countries at the Riga summit meeting this week to commit more troops to Afghanistan will further encourage a countrywide Taliban offensive, and portends much greater interference by neighboring states ...
Bush's eavesdropping
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 It was one of the more outrageous moments in the story of the Bush administration's illegal domestic wiretapping. Almost a year ago, congressional Democrats called for a review of the Justice Department's role in the program. But the ...
Democrats want Bush to post new Iraq envoy They seek to keep pressure on Maliki
Dec 01, 2006; ... Carl Hulse International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 David W. Chen contributed reporting from Trenton, New Jersey.*Leading Senate Democrats have called for President George W. Bush to appoint a special envoy to work with Iraqi leaders to bring increasing violence in Iraq under ...
Despite Rice's Mideast visit, dialogue falters 2 sides seem unable to make bold moves
Dec 01, 2006; ... Steven Erlanger International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 As much as the Bush administration would like to show serious progress in the Middle East, both the Israeli and Palestinian governments are politically damaged by the summer's conflicts, involving Hamas in the Gaza Strip and ...
Scant refuge in JordanIraqis who flee
Dec 01, 2006; ... Bill Frelick International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 President George W. Bush chose Jordan as the venue for this week's meeting with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq at least in part because he saw Jordan as the safest and friendliest spot in the region. More than half a ...
Your pig, Mr. Kaye, cannot be cured
Dec 01, 2006; ... Peter Hoffman International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Autumn is a busy time for city restaurants. Urban dwellers close up their second homes, and market ingredients shift from cool tomatoes to dense squashes and earthy mushrooms. Two weeks ago, amid all this activity, Stephen Kaye ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORA monarch for Iraq?
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Regarding the news article ''Report urges Iran and Syria talks'' (Nov. 28): In the face of civil war in Iraq and the seemingly impossible quest to bring the three major factions together, one option seems to have been overlooked by just about ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Regarding the editorial ''Iraq and the facts of life'' Nov. 30): The progress in Iraq has been slow. However, your editorial omitted the key role that must be played by Iraq's neighbors to help the country defeat terrorism and achieve ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORGerman pessimism
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 John Vinocur misses some important, elemental reasons for Germany's current pessimism and disaffection with democracy (''Why the pessimism, in a German upswing?'' Politicus, Nov. 28). These include decreasing purchasing power, a welfare system ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORReligion and the future
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Regarding the news article ''When scientists become evangelists'' (Nov. 23): Controversies between rationalists and evangelists have always been exciting games, but haven't we got other priorities? In the Middle Ages, most Christians were ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORAmericans' rights
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Regarding the editorial ''A parting shot'' (Nov. 23): Gun-owning Americans are not confused at all about the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Second Amendment clearly recognizes the individual's right to bear arms and for good ...
IBM, NCR and Hitachi cited in bribery verdict
Dec 01, 2006; ... David Barboza International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 Three large multinational companies were named in a court verdict that sentenced the former head of China Construction Bank to 15 years in prison for accepting more than $500,000 in bribes, according to a copy of the court records ...
Is bid real or a fairy tale? Swiss company has designs on Euro Disney
Dec 01, 2006 ... International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 An obscure Swiss firm with no operations failed to resolve a question baffling investors and regulators on Thursday is it serious about trying to take control of Disneyland Paris?The Swiss firm, Center-Tainment, canceled a news conference ...
France puts its patrimony on the block
Dec 01, 2006; ... Craig S. Smith International Herald Tribune 12-01-2006 For sale: history, with a view.France is selling off dozens of historic properties in Paris and the provinces, using the proceeds to move government bureaucrats into less-expensive properties and to help pay off the national ...