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Date:Sat, 27 Oct 2001 01:25:03 -0700 (PDT)

TODAY'S HEADLINES
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Saturday, October 27, 2001
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"There is concern not only in the Islamic world, but the
entire world, in the West and in the United States, at all
the civilian casualties and the miseries that the
civilians are being put through in Afghanistan."
-GEN. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF of Pakistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/international/asia/27STAN.html?todaysheadlines


NATIONAL
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Anthrax Letter Awaits Discovery, C.D.C. Chief Hints

A top public health official said on Friday that it was
likely that more than one letter containing anthrax went
through the government's mailrooms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/national/27ANTH.html?todaysheadlines

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Lockheed Wins $200 Billion Deal for

Fighter Jet

The Pentagon announced that it had awarded what is expected
to become the largest military contract in American history
to Lockheed Martin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/business/27PLAN.html?todaysheadlines

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Agents Start Digging Up Old Files on Hoaxes

Previous files on anthrax threats have drawn the attention
of federal investigators who are reviewing the cases for
clues that might lead them to the source of the recent
anthrax letters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/national/27INQU.html?todaysheadlines

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INTERNATIONAL
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U.S. Planes Bomb a Red Cross Site for Second Time

American forces bombed and largely destroyed the same Red
Cross complex in Kabul that they struck 10 days ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/international/asia/27MILI.html?todaysheadlines

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Taliban Executes a Top American-Backed Rival

Abdul Haq, a former guerrilla commander who was seen as the
potential leader of an anti-Taliban uprising, was caught
and executed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/international/asia/27AFGH.html?todaysheadlines

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Czechs Confirm Iraqi Agent Met With Terror Ringleader

The Interior Minister of the Czech Republic said Friday that
an Iraqi intelligence officer met with Mohammed Atta, one
of the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/international/middleeast/27IRAQ.html?todaysheadlines

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BUSINESS
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Lockheed Wins $200 Billion Deal for

Fighter Jet

The Pentagon announced that it had awarded what is expected
to become the largest military contract in American history
to Lockheed Martin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/business/27PLAN.html?todaysheadlines

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White House and Key Senators Revise Plan on Aid to Insurers

The Bush administration and the three senior members of the
Senate banking committee reached agreement on a framework
for a financial assistance package for the insurance
industry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/business/27INSU.html?todaysheadlines

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Goldman Gets More Pieces of Energy Pie

Investing in power-generating companies has been a rough
ride in the last few months, but the Goldman Sachs Group
seems to be making a tidy profit at every turn.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/business/27ENER.html?todaysheadlines

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TECHNOLOGY
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Failed Belgian Company Attracting Potential Bidders

The remains of Lernout & Hauspie, the once highflying
Belgian software maker ordered liquidated, are already the
subject of spirited maneuvering among potential buyers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/business/worldbusiness/27LERN.html?todaysheadlines

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Cybersleuths Take On the Mystery of the Collapsing Colossus

A team from Columbia University is trying to save the
Cathedral of St. Peter in Beauvais, France, via computer
scans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/arts/27TANK.html?todaysheadlines

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JDS Uniphase Posts $1.2B Loss

JDS Uniphase's first-quarter loss grew 20 percent as the
optical networking equipment maker continued to struggle
through the economic slowdown.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Earns-JDS-Uniphase.html?todaysheadlines

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POLITICS
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Authorities Gain Tools to Fight Terrorism

President Bush signed into law new antiterrorism measures
that he said would "help law enforcement to identify, to
dismantle, to disrupt and to punish terrorists before they
strike."
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/national/27TERR.html?todaysheadlines

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Lockheed Wins $200 Billion Deal for

Fighter Jet

The Pentagon announced that it had awarded what is expected
to become the largest military contract in American history
to Lockheed Martin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/business/27PLAN.html?todaysheadlines

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White House and Key Senators Revise Plan on Aid to Insurers

The Bush administration and the three senior members of the
Senate banking committee reached agreement on a framework
for a financial assistance package for the insurance
industry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/business/27INSU.html?todaysheadlines

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SPORTS
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Yankees Have a Plan to Beat Arizona's Heat

The Yankees' ability to generate runs against Curt Schilling
and Randy Johnson or at least force them out of the game
in the late innings will probably determine whether New
York will win another World Series.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/sports/baseball/27YANK.html?todaysheadlines

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The Final Act in a Season of Turmoil

One of the burgeoning undercurrents of this 97th World
Series is that the Yankees have become America's team.
Truth is, no one has a corner on hard knocks and disaster.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/sports/baseball/27RHOD.html?todaysheadlines

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Each of the Races Is an Event in the Olympics of Horse
Racing

The World Thoroughbred Championships is an eight-race
showcase worth more than $14 million in purses and
contested by more than 90 of the finest horses in America
and Europe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/sports/27RACI.html?todaysheadlines

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ARTS
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Met's Levine Will Also Lead Boston Symphony Orchestra

James Levine, the longtime artistic director of the
Metropolitan Opera, has accepted the post of music director
of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/arts/27LEVI.html?todaysheadlines

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Getting It Right: Angst Among the Armchair Generals

As the broad outlines of the war plan begin to take shape,
debating the uses and limits of air and ground power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/arts/27CHAI.html?todaysheadlines

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A Memorial Is Itself a Shaper of Memory

The fate of the World Trade Center ruins is intimately
related to the question of memory.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/arts/27MEMO.html?todaysheadlines

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NY REGION
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Union Wants Postal Center Fully Cleaned

The executive board of the city's largest postal workers
union voted to file a lawsuit to have New York City's
largest mail-distribution center facility closed for a
thorough cleaning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/nyregion/27YORK.html?todaysheadlines

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Bloomberg Sets a $41 Million Spending Record

Michael R. Bloomberg's campaign documents show that he has
spent a record $41 million on his mayoral campaign,
allowing him to launch a lavish advertising blitz.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/nyregion/27FINA.html?todaysheadlines

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Promoting Pataki for Speeches, Agency Cites His Ground Zero
Role

The agency that arranges for Gov. George E. Pataki to make
paid speeches is pitching him as someone who can offer
lessons from ground zero of the trade center disaster.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/nyregion/27PATA.html?todaysheadlines

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OP-ED
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How to Lose a War
By FRANK RICH
The "America Strikes Back" optimism that surged after Sept.
11 has now been stricken by the multitude of ways we're
losing the war at home.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/opinion/27RICH.html?todaysheadlines

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A Downward Spiral
By ANTHONY LEWIS
The fundamental reason for the terrible state of affairs in
Israel is that both sides undermined the premises of the
Oslo agreement of 1993.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/opinion/27LEWI.html?todaysheadlines

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America Doesn't Know What the World Is Saying
By DENNIS BARON
Ignorant of Arabic, we will be disadvantaged in the war.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/opinion/27BARO.html?todaysheadlines

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