UPI NewsTrack articles from June 2004

UPI NewsTrack archives from June 2004

Watercooler Stories.(Quirks in the News)
June 1, 2004... Byline: United Press International U.S. schools shelve sciences for reading WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- Facing federal sanctions, some U.S. schools are reducing or skipping courses in sciences in favor of improving reading, the...

Indonesia kicks off election campaign.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... JAKARTA, June 1 (UPI) -- Indonesia kicked off a month-long campaign Tuesday for a July 5 direct presidential election amid doubt the winner will usher in sweeping reforms. Five candidates, including incumbent President Megawati...

Shanghai plans anti-smoking measures.(UPI Science Report)
June 1, 2004... BEIJING, June 1 (UPI) -- In honor of the United Nations' No Tobacco Day, officials in Shanghai promised Monday that new anti-smoking measures would be adopted. An article in Tuesday's Shanghai Daily said the city would prohibit cigarette...

NBA: LA Lakers 96, Minnesota 90.(Sports News)
June 1, 2004... LOS ANGELES, May 31 (UPI) -- Kareem Rush made six three-pointers Monday night as the LA Lakers beat Minnesota, 96-90, and advanced to the NBA Finals. Winning the Western Conference Finals 4-2, the Lakers reached the title round for the...

UPI NewsTrack Sports.(Newswraps)
June 1, 2004... LA Lakers win NBA Western Conference LOS ANGELES, June 1 (UPI) -- Kareem Rush made six three-pointers Monday night as the LA Lakers beat Minnesota, 96-90, and advanced to the NBA Finals. Winning the Western Conference Finals 4-2, the...

Indonesia: Camaraderie, then competition.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... JAKARTA, June 1 (UPI) -- Five presidential candidates signed a plaque Tuesday to mark the official start of the month-long campaign for Indonesia's first direct presidential elections. Attended by hundreds of supporters, the five candidates...

In China, profits and politics don't mix.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 1 (UPI) -- Taiwan companies are not welcome to do business in mainland China if they support Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, China's state-owned media say. The message was made clear in a front-page editorial in the...

Police accused of assisting kidnappers.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BEIJING, June 1 (UPI) -- Parents from Kunming in southwest China filed a complaint in Beijing Monday accusing local police of complicity in the kidnapping of children by local gangs. A delegation of 31 parents filed a formal complaint with...

China denies fraud over Beijing theater.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BEIJING, June 1 (UPI) -- A Chinese official Monday denied charges of corruption in China's dealings with French architect Paul Andreu, who is building Beijing's National Theater. Wang Zhengming, spokesman for the committee building the...

New Zealand man killed near Manila.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... MANILA, Philippines, June 1 (UPI) -- Philippine police are investigating the shooting death of 47-year-old New Zealander Barry Garrod outside his home near Manila Tuesday. Garrod's body was found with a single shot to the head in the city...

Police probe Philippines bombing.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... MANILA, Philippines, June 1 (UPI) -- Police are investigating a bomb explosion that injured seven people outside a store in the southern Philippines Tuesday. The blast occurred in Pagadian city, some 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of...

Hynix agrees to sell unit to Citigroup.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... SEOUL, June 1 (UPI) -- South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor agreed Tuesday to sell its non-memory chip operations to Citigroup's venture capital arm. Creditors of Hynix Semiconductor Inc, the world's fourth-largest memory chipmaker, have...

S.Korea trade surplus hits $3 billion.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... SEOUL, June 1 (UPI) -- South Korea's trade surplus topped $3 billion in May, the largest monthly total in over five years, on the back of strong exports, officials said Tuesday. Customs-cleared exports jumped 42.4 percent in the month to...

Girl fatally stabbed by her classmate.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... SASEBO, Japan, June 1 (UPI) -- An elementary school girl was stabbed to death by her classmate in the town of Sasebo in southern Japan Tuesday. At around 12:45 p.m., a local fire station received an emergency call from the Sasebo Municipal...

South Korea security chief visits U.S.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... SEOUL, June 1 (UPI) -- South Korean National Security Advisor Kwon Chin-ho left Tuesday for the United States to discuss the two countries' security alliance and North Korea. While staying in Washington until Thursday, Kwon will meet with...

Power failure shuts down services in Japan.(UPI Science Report)
June 1, 2004... TOKYO, June 1 (UPI) -- Hundreds of companies in Japan suffered a disruption in Internet services Monday when NTT Communications suffered a power-source failure. Government online services and online booking systems were down because of the...

Buddhist monks urged to give up smoking.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BANKGOK, Thailand, June 1 (UPI) -- One in four monks in Thailand smokes tobacco despite Buddhist prohibitions against consuming addictive substances, a survey has revealed. The survey, conducted by the Mahidol and Rangsit Universities of...

Slovak state budget improves dramatically.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, June 1 (UPI) -- Slovakia's state budget deficit in the first four months of 2004 was $69 million, official figures showed Tuesday. The latest figures represent a huge improvement over the state of public finances in...

Czech real wages continue to surge.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 1 (UPI) -- Real wages in the Czech Republic rose at a year-on-year pace of 6.4 percent in the first three months of the year, official figures showed Tuesday. Czech real wages rose by 6.2 percent year-on-year in...

Stricter accounting puts firms in the red.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... TOKYO, June 1 (UPI) -- Under stricter accounting standards soon to be mandatory, 26 Japanese companies found themselves deeply in the red for fiscal 2003. According to Asahi Shimbun Tuesday, the leading companies, including those in the...

Poland's Belka to be appointed premier.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... WARSAW, Poland, June 1 (UPI) -- Poland's acting Prime Minister Marek Belka will be formally appointed premier on June 11, President Aleksander Kwasniewski has said. Kwasniewski was quoted in the Polish media Tuesday as saying he did not...

Bulgaria signs nuclear waste plant deal.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 1 (UPI) -- A German consortium has signed a deal to build a nuclear waste disposal facility in Bulgaria, local media reported Tuesday. The $60 million deal was signed between the Bulgarian nuclear power plant Kozloduy...

Jockstrip: The world as we know it.(Quirks in the News)
June 1, 2004... Byline: United Press International Italian town opens 'love car park' VINCI, Italy, June 1 (UPI) -- An Italian town has decided to stop cracking down on lovemaking couples in car parks and created one especially for that purpose, The...

Council selects Iraq's president.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BAGHDAD, June 1 (UPI) -- The Iraq Governing Council Tuesday chose Ghazi al-Yawer to be the country's president after his main competitor, Adnan Pachachi, declined the top post. Official sources told United Press International that Pachachi...

Militants raid Buddhist shrine in Thailand.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BANGKOK, June 1 (UPI) -- Islamic militants in southern Thailand Tuesday raided a Buddhist shrine in an apparent effort to create sectarian conflict in the predominantly Muslim area. The shrine was located near the mosque where military...

15 killed in Baghdad shelling.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BAGHDAD, June 1 (UPI) -- Shells landed in the vicinity of Baghdad's "Green Zone" Tuesday, killing 15 people, as the Iraqi Governing Council met to choose the country's next president. Witnesses said at least six shells slammed into central...

Report: U.S. Army probes 91 abuse cases.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- A senior U.S. Army official has told the Washington Post investigations of at least 91 cases of prisoner abuse were opened in the last year and a half. While the new figures show at least 59 of the 91...

U.S. spy trial opens in Serbia.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, June 1 (UPI) -- A former senior military official and pro-democracy activist went on trial in Serbia Tuesday accused of spying for the United States. Gen. Momcilo Perisic is accused of handing over classified...

MLB: Colorado 7, San Diego 1.(Sports News)
June 1, 2004... SAN DIEGO, June 1 (UPI) -- Colorado ended an eight-game road losing streak with a 7-1 win over the San Diego Padres Monday night. Jason Jennings gave up four hits and San Diego's lone run over eight innings to get the win, only the second...

Saudi imam arrested on terror suspicion.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BAGHDAD, June 1 (UPI) -- Saudi authorities arrested the imam of a Mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on suspicion of links with terrorists who killed 22 people during the weekend. Security sources and witnesses said police raided the house of...

Religious edict bans Arab troops to Iraq.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... AMMAN, Jordan, June 1 (UPI) -- Jordan's Islamists issued a religious edict Tuesday banning the deployment of Arab forces in Iraq as long as the U.S.-led occupation persists. "Whoever offers a service to help Iraq's occupation is an atheist...

PA: Egypt's plan to be implemented soon.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... GAZA, June 1 (UPI) -- An Egyptian security plan will be implemented soon in preparation for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, Palestinian Premier Ahmed Qureia announced Tuesday. Palestinian sources had reported recently Egypt had presented...

MLB: Seattle 6, Toronto 2.(Sports News)
June 1, 2004... SETTLE, Wash., June 1 (UPI) -- Jamie Moyer got his third straight win as Seattle beat Toronto 6-2 Monday night. Moyer (4-2) gave up seven hits in 7 2/3 innings. During his three-game streak he has allowed just three runs in 21 2/3 innings....

MLB: San Francisco 8, Arizona 4.(Sports News)
June 1, 2004... PHOENIX, June 1 (UPI) -- Barry Bonds hit his 672nd home run as San Francisco won its 10th straight game Monday night, 8-4 over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Bonds homered off Arizona rookie starter Casey Daigle in the second inning. ...

UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup.(Sports News)
June 1, 2004... Byline: ROBERT KIECKHEFER Monday's $750,000 Metropolitan Handicap drew a stellar and diversified field, including champion mare Azeri and Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide. But it was a Brazilian-bred who came calling in the stretch to win...

Afghan poppy crop comes in early and big.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 1 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's crop of opium-producing poppies has come to an early and plentiful harvest, raising U.S. fears of new funding for al-Qaida. However, the Bush administration has reluctantly decided to...

UPI NewsTrack TopNews.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... Council selects Iraq's president BAGHDAD, June 1 (UPI) -- The Iraq Governing Council Tuesday chose Ghazi al-Yawer to be the country's president after his main competitor, Adnan Pachachi, declined the top post. Official sources told...

Jordan welcomes choice of Iraq president.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... AMMAN, Jordan, June 1 (UPI) -- Jordan welcomed the appointment Tuesday of Ghazi al-Yawer as Iraq's new president. "Jordan applauds al-Yawer's appointment as long as this reflects the will and wish of the Iraqi people," government...

Last widow of Confederate soldier dies.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... ENTERPRISE, Ala., June 1 (UPI) -- Alberta Stewart Martin, the last known widow of a confederate solider, has died at the age of 97. Alberta Martin was 21 when she married William Jasper Martin in 1927. The 81-year-old William Martin served...

U.N. pitches for D.R. Congo peace talks.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 1 (UPI) -- U.N. officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo worked Tuesday to diffuse tensions involving the new national army and former military rebels. Voice of America said one group of...

Arrests made in bear parts, ginseng trade.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 1 (UPI) -- Virginia state and federal officials made dozens of arrests for the purchase of black bears and wild ginseng for medicinal use, the Washington Post said. Nearly all of those arrested were Korean. They were...

Tourist arrivals to Indonesia ups.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... JAKARTA, June 1 (UPI) -- Tourist arrivals to Indonesia in the first four months of 2004 reached 1.36 million, up 27.7 percent compared with last year, it was announced on Tuesday. Data released by the country's central bureau of statistics...

Erekat: Egypt to help implement roadmap.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... GAZA, June 1 (UPI) -- Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Tuesday Egypt presented an initiative as part of an effort to help implement the co-called "roadmap" for peace. Egypt has presented an initiative to both Israel and the...

Jordan offers Syria-U.S. mediation.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... AMMAN, Jordan, June 1 (UPI) -- Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan al-Muashar offered Tuesday his country's mediation in settling a dispute between Syria and the United States. "Jordan can exploit its good relations with the U.S. to help...

Iraq interim government declared.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BAGHDAD, June 1 (UPI) -- Iraqi prime minister-designate Iyad Allawi Tuesday announced a 33-member interim government to rule Iraq during a transitional period beginning June 30. The announcement was made in Baghdad at a joint press...

Health Tips ... from UPI.(Science News)
June 1, 2004... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ TIPS FOR SWEETENING BAD BREATH Bad breath, halitosis in medical circles, may be caused by dental problems, dry mouth or food and gotten rid of by focusing on those areas. The Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource...

Viacom names two new co-presidents.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- Media giant Viacom Inc. announced Tuesday the appointment of Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves as co-presidents and co-chief operating officers. The pair succeed Mel Karmazin, who resigned. Freston is currently...

New York City tap water isn't kosher.(Quirks in the News)
June 1, 2004... NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- Sales of water filters to Orthodox Jews in New York are brisk since word went out the city's tap water contains microscopic harmless crustaceans. Rabbis recently discovered there are tiny creatures, called...

Pettitte again placed on injury list.(Sports News)
June 1, 2004... HOUSTON, June 1 (UPI) -- The Houston Astros' Andy Pettitte is on the 15-day disabled list for the second time this season with a pitching arm injury. Pettitte went on the list Monday with a muscle strain. He had been pulled from a recent...

Hispaniola Island braces for more storms.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, June 1 (UPI) -- Haiti and the Dominican Republic Tuesday braced for hurricane season even as the death toll from recent rains reached nearly 1,500. According to meteorologists, Hispaniola Island -- home to...

Job cuts rise slightly for second month.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... CHICAGO, June 1 (UPI) -- Job-cut announcements increased slightly for the second straight month in May, rising 1.6 percent to 73,368, an outplacement firm's study showed Tuesday. The figure is up from 72,184 in April, according to the...

Japan engineers mad-cow resistant animals.(UPI Science Report)
June 1, 2004... TOKYO, June 1 (UPI) -- Researchers with the Japanese brewer Kirin and U.S.-based Hematech announced Tuesday they have engineered a cow resistant to mad cow disease. The cattle, specially designed to produce human antibodies, have no...

U.S. to switch to defensive mode in Iraq.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BAGHDAD, June 1 (UPI) -- U.S. military commanders in Iraq are shifting strategy away from offensive raids on insurgents to a more defensive posture, the New York Times said Tuesday. The primary focus will become one of protecting the new...

Jordan university denies Israeli branch.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... AMMAN, Jordan, June 1 (UPI) -- Jordan's private Amman National University said Tuesday it does not intend to open a branch in Israel, despite Israeli press reports. University President Ahmed Horani told UPI the institution's policy "does...

Cincinnati Ballet gets Cuban defectors.(Entertainment News)
June 1, 2004... CINCINNATI, June 1 (UPI) -- Four of the five Cuban ballet dancers who defected last October during a 20-city U.S. tour of the National Ballet of Cuba are joining the Cincinnati Ballet. Victoria Morgan, artistic director of the Cincinnati...

Capriati beats Serena; Myskina tops Venus.(Sports News)
June 1, 2004... PARIS, June 1 (UPI) -- Jennifer Capriati beat Serena Williams and Russian Anastasia Myskina ousted Venus Williams Tuesday to reach the French Open semifinals. Capriati, the veteran from Florida, seeded seventh, overcame her No. 3-seeded...

Aga Khan Trust transforms vast Cairo dump.(UPI Science Report)
June 1, 2004... CAIRO, June 1 (UPI) -- The Aga Khan Trust for Culture has transformed an enormous rubbish heap in the medieval center of Cairo into an oasis, called Al-Azhar Park. The trust set by Aga Khan IV, leader of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim sect,...

Court narrows Miranda grounds.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday the lack of a Miranda warning did not poison the arrest of a California minor after a confession. Michael Alvarado, then 17, helped his friend Paul Soto hijack a truck in...

Chinese government: Britney must cover up.(Entertainment News)
June 1, 2004... BEIJING, June 1 (UPI) -- The Chinese government said Britney Spears, in the midst of a world tour, must wear more clothes if the pop star wants to perform in China. Chinese culture ministers approved Spears performance of five shows in the...

Airbus, Boeing nearing trade dispute.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- The world's two biggest aircraft manufacturers may be headed for an all-out brawl over whether the European one is getting unfair subsidies. In the last few weeks U.S. trade officials have put European trade...

Mauritania Islamic publication banned.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania, June 1 (UPI) -- The Mauritanian authorities Tuesday seized copies of al-Marsad newspaper, mouthpiece of the country's Islamic movement, reports said. Newspaper publisher Mohammed Abdullah Ould Habib denounced the...

2004 hurricane season opens.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... TAMPA, Fla., June 1 (UPI) -- The 2004 hurricane season opened Tuesday with no sign of any activity in the tropics, but the American Red Cross warned people are not ready. The Red Cross said its most recent poll shows half of coastal...

Art revives Massachusetts mill town.(UPI Science Report)
June 1, 2004... NORTH ADAMS, Mass., June 1 (UPI) -- The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, is being credited with the revival of a once derelict Massachusetts mill town in the Berkshire Mountains. Built with state funds and opened in 1999, the...

Stocks head lower.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- Prices on the New York Stock Exchange were little changed in morning trading Tuesday as investors digested news of surging crude prices. Stocks were flat on the Nasdaq Stock Market as well. The Dow Jones...

Rice: Politics has broken out in Iraq.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday she is not concerned about political jockeying among members of the newly named Iraqi government. "Surprise, surprise: politics has broken out in Iraq,"...

Seattle monorail shut down after fire.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... SEATTLE, June 1 (UPI) -- Seattle's famed monorail was closed Tuesday, the result of a Memorial Day fire that sent at least eight people to the hospital, the Seattle Times reported. Passengers Monday evening said they heard a "pop" in a...

Hot, dry weather sparks Florida fires.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... ORLANDO, Fla., June 1 (UPI) -- Firefighters watched four areas in central Florida Tuesday for hot spots from wildfires that ignited Monday in record hot temperatures. There were no injuries and no structures suffered significant damage in...

Apathy widespread as EU elections near.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... BRUSSELS, June 1 (UPI) -- Fewer than half of Europeans eligible to vote in this month's European parliamentary elections intend to, the International Herald Tribune said. In a Gallup poll in mid-May, about 45 percent of Europeans said they...

Singing cop retires to pursue vocal career.(Entertainment News)
June 1, 2004... NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- Daniel Rodriguez, the New York City policeman whose tenor voice raised city spirits after Sept. 11, is retiring to pursue a vocal career. The Police Department said Rodriguez has applied for retirement after 20...

Canadian Anglicans choose liberal leader.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... ST. CATHARINES, Ontario, June 1 (UPI) -- The Anglican Church of Canada selected Montreal Archbishop Andrew Hutchinson, a liberal cleric who supports same-sex marriage, as its new national leader. The unexpected election of Hutchinson as the...

'Stepford Wives' lack fashion style.(Entertainment News)
June 1, 2004... NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- "The Stepford Wives'" costume designer wanted the remake's actresses to look "dopey pretty" so she dressed them in floral dresses with matching headbands. When Ann Roth set forth to work on the current Hollywood...

Miami man arrested with bucket of bombs.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... MIAMI, June 1 (UPI) -- Authorities in Miami have arrested a man after they found a 5-gallon "bucket of bombs" at his home. Arrested was Brian Joseph Kelley, 43, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday. Miami-Dade County Police and the...

Station owners: Gas thefts on rise.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... TAMPA, Fla., June 1 (UPI) -- Gas station owners in Tampa, Fla., say instances of motorists driving off from the pump without paying are on the rise in these days of high prices. Many people believe the victims are large oil companies, but...

Dow Corning emerges from bankruptcy.(Business News)
June 1, 2004... MIDLAND, Mich., June 1 (UPI) -- Michigan's Dow Corning emerged Tuesday from nearly 10 years of bankruptcy, WDIV-TV, Detroit, reported. Dow Corning sought protection from creditors in 1995 as it struggled to respond to some 19,000 lawsuits...

Rice: Iraqi government major step forward.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the creation of an Iraqi interim government was a key step toward President Bush's vision for Iraq. "Last week at the Army War College, President Bush...

Rice: Iraq's leaders are not U.S. puppets.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday she was not concerned about Iraqi leaders' criticisms, but warned violence may spike in Iraq. "These are not America's puppets," Rice said of the newly...

Musharraf calls for Muslim moderation.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 1 (UPI) -- Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf wrote in the Washington Post Tuesday that Muslims must return to moderation to stem "the downward slide." "The special challenge that confronts Muslims is to drag...

Whitney and Bobby act strange in London.(Entertainment News)
June 1, 2004... LONDON, June 1 (UPI) -- Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown scared staffers at Harrod's in London, looking "drugged and disheveled" and behaving strangely, it was reported Tuesday. The pop superstar and her R&B husband were in the popular...

Oil companies ignore OPEC price ploy.(UPI Science Report)
June 1, 2004... NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- U.S. oil companies have not responded to the recent spike in crude oil prices with as much increased exploration and production spending as some expected. Lehman Brothers' analyst James Crandell says worldwide...

Powell welcomes new Iraq government.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday he was "pleased" with the composition of the new Iraqi government. "We're pleased that a number of qualified candidates were available for the top positions, and...

Court refuses newspaper libel case.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday refused to review a California libel case disputing the difference between public and private figures. The Santa Barbara News-Press publishes several stories on Leonard Ross, who...

India, Pakistan to start talks in June.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... NEW DELHI, June 1 (UPI) -- India and Pakistan announced Tuesday the start of talks on nuclear weapons and a round of foreign-secretary level talks later this month. The countries' foreign secretaries will meet June 27 and 28 and the...

Test of voting by mail goes wrong in U.K.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... LONDON, June 1 (UPI) -- An experiment of mailing 14 million European election ballots to voters in England is running behind schedule, The Times of London reported Tuesday. The test in four selected districts was designed to increase voter...

Musharraf targets Karachi unrest.(UPI Top Stories)
June 1, 2004... KARACHI, Pakistan, June 1 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was in consultation Tuesday on how to stem growing unrest in Karachi, one day after a mosque bombing killed 19 Shiites. Senior officials said Musharraf was considering...