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COPYRIGHT 2002 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
JANUARY. Twelve countries of the European Union adopted the euro as their common currency. Lord Birt was asked by Mr Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, to draw up a report on transport. Rail fares went up and drivers went on strike. Connex South-East found it could get more passengers on trains by abolishing lavatories. Peggy Lee, the singer, died, aged 81. America flew al-Qa'eda and Taleban prisoners to a camp at Guantanamo Bay on the island of Cuba. India and Pakistan stood on the brink of war. A Home Office report found that in London (where 8 per cent are black) 70 per cent of mobile-telephone thefts were carried out by blacks.
FEBRUARY. Lord Wakeham, a non-executive director of Enron, the bankrupt American energy company, stepped `aside' from his post as chairman of the Press Complaints Commission while retaining his 156,000 [pounds sterling] salary. Mr Blair commended to Mr Adrian Nastase, the Prime Minister of Romania, a bid to buy its steel company by Mr Lakshmi Mittal, who had given 125,000 [pounds sterling] to the Labour party. Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Serbia, went on...
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