March 2002

EVENTS

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March 1 , 2002

The Bush Administration admits the existence of a Shadow Government with the implementation of the Continuity Of Operations Plan .

March 2 , 2002

Stanley L. Harriman , of the Third Special Forces Group, is killed in an ambush along the road from Gardez to the Shahi Kot Valley .

March 4 , 2002

soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission. Around 3 a.m. local time a MH-47 Chinook helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, causing a soldier to fall out and damaging a hydraulic line. The helicopter made an emergency landing a half-mile away. A second helicopter on the mission picked up the first helicopter's crew and flew to where the crew member had fallen. The soldiers soon came under heavy fire, and six were killed. The remaining soldiers returned fire and retrieved the bodies before returning to base.

in imploding bubbles are now available online. If this can be repeated, this is an important scientific breakthrough. Other Physicist s fear that this may be a repeat of the Cold Fusion fiasco.

March 11 , 2002

Robert Mugabe has won the Zimbabwe elections with 54% of the vote to Morgan Tsvangirai 's 40% on a turnout of 55.9%. His victory is controversial and comes amid claims that many were prevented from voting and there was a campaign of intimidation. But election observers from South Africa and the Organisation Of African Unity have stated that the outcome was legitimate.

March 12 , 2002

Israel ground troops invade the West Bank and Gaza Strip in her largest offensive since the 1982 invasion of Lebanon . Dozens of Tank s occupy Ramallah . 37 total dead so far, Israeli and Palestinian .

March 19 , 2002

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has called a three-day General Strike protesting police interference with union meetings, harassment of Trade Union ists and general lawlessness following the general elections, which has led to slow-downs in business. In South Korea , 5,600 power plant workers are on the 25th day of their strike, protesting the Neoliberal government plans to Privatize the state-run electricity plants. A vote among the remaining power plant workers to strike was cancelled due to company interference.

March 20 , 2002

March 23 , 2002

Two million to three million Trade Union members rally in Rome in protest both of Labor legislation filed by Prime Minister Of Italy Silvio Berlusconi and of the assassination of Marco Biagi, an advisor to the Labor Minister, by the re-formed Red Brigades . Labor leaders threaten a General Strike if the legislation is passed.

March 24 , 2002

March 27 , 2002

March 28 , 2002

endorse the " Land For Peace " plan proposed by Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia .

Pope John Paul II accepts the resignation of Archbishop Juliusz Paetz , who had been accused of Sexual Abuse .

March 30 , 2002

explodes in My Coffee Shop, a Tel Aviv café at around 9:30 PM local time, wounding 32 people.

in Ramallah . A Suicide Bomber identified as Shadi Tubasi , a resident of the refugee camp Jenin , kills 14 and wounds more than 40 in Haifa . Later, a suicide bomber wounds four members of an Intensive Care Unit , one critically, in a Paramedic s' dispatch station in Efrat . In the past 18 months, according to the Associated Press , 1262 people have been killed on the Palestinian side and on 401 on the Israeli side.

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