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Date: 17 May 2004
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Bush, In AIDS Policy Shift, Speeds Drug Approvals The Bush administration announced a significant shift in its AIDS policy, expediting the approval process for generic and combination anti-retroviral drugs so they can be purchased at lower prices and provided more efficiently and safely to millions of infected people in Africa and the Caribbean. A1
Date: 16 May 2004
INTERNATIONAL 3-18 Abu Ghraib Court-Martials Six of the defendants in the Abu Ghraib abuse case once bunked together in a tent in Baghdad, but as the military prosecutions unfold this week, each one is struggling alone to explain away seemingly irrefutable evidence captured in frame after frame of disturbing images. 1
Date: 16 May 2004
By Simon Romero
Simon Romero
Energy industry executives are waiting to see whether Saudi Arabia, only oil producer with enough spare capacity to have rapid effect on prices by increasing or decreasing output, can make difference it once did; Saudis must consider not only growing demand, but concerns about own economy, which prospers from high oil prices, and domestic politics, which make it hard to be regarded as accommodating United States, other issues; graph of Saudi output; photo (M)
Date: 17 May 2004
By Courtney C. Radsch
Courtney Radsch
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was abruptly cut off for a few seconds by an aide during an interview on Sunday on the NBC News program "Meet the Press."
Date: 17 May 2004
By Warren St. John
Warren St
Town officials in Provincetown, Mass, begin allowing same-sex couples to register for marriage licenses; city has been overrun by hopeful couples, their families and friends, and by news media; photo (M)
Date: 16 May 2004
An ugly week unsettles Iraq, a Gandhi is poised to return to power in India and the Justice Department agrees to re-examine a notorious 1955 killing.
Date: 16 May 2004
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich looks at irony in comparison of two women 'at bottom' of military, Private Jessica Lynch, falsely touted by military as war hero, and Pfc Lynndie England, accused of war crimes; sees both as revealing what has gone wrong for US in Iraq; decries efforts by military and White House to down-lay atrocities committed by US soldiers on Iraq prisoners; photos (L)
Date: 16 May 2004
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
There was little evidence that the twin gestures had mollified Arabs mistrustful of the U.S. in both Iraq and the Mideast.
Date: 17 May 2004
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
Secretary of State Colin L Powell, at gathering of Arab elite in Jordan, offers direct apology to Iraqi prisoners in Baghdad abused by Americans, and castigates Israel for demolishing Palestinian homes in Gaza; there is little evidence that Powell's twin gestures have mollified Arabs mistrustful of American policies in Iraq and in Israeli-Palestinian conflict (M)
Date: 16 May 2004
By Robert Strauss
Robert Strauss
Christie Whitman, former New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency head, appears on television game show Jeopardy! as part of Power Players week; photo (S)