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News Corporations and securities brief ~ Former Healthsouth president indicted
Corporations and securities brief ~ Former Healthsouth president indicted
Amit Patel
February 3, 2005 02:59:00 pm

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, prosecutors have announced that former HealthSouth Corp. president and director James P. Bennett has been indicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, money laundering and lying to the FBI...

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News Zimbabwe opposition party to take part in elections under protest
Zimbabwe opposition party to take part in elections under protest
Amit Patel
February 3, 2005 01:23:00 pm

Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will field candidates in the country's parliamentary elections to be held next month. MDC contends, however, that the polls will not be fair and free and will...

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News EU lawmakers call for communist symbol ban
EU lawmakers call for communist symbol ban
Amit Patel
February 3, 2005 01:08:00 pm

A group of conservative European Union lawmakers from eastern Europe have proposed an EU ban on communist symbols, including the red star and the hammer and sickle. The ban would match a proposed EU ban on the...

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News Cambodian opposition leader flees country fearing lawsuits
Cambodian opposition leader flees country fearing lawsuits
Amit Patel
February 3, 2005 09:11:00 am

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy has reportedly left the country after the country's parliament stripped him of immunity, exposing him to liability for defamation. Cambodia's National Assembly Thursday achieved the two-thirds majority needed to overturn...

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News Annan expects hard-hitting report on Oil-for-Food scandal
Annan expects hard-hitting report on Oil-for-Food scandal
Amit Patel
February 3, 2005 08:52:00 am

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says he expects to see "harsh judgments" of the UN in an interim report to be released Thursday on the purported mismanagement of the $64 billion Oil-for-Food program. Annan set up a...

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News France seeks ban on neo-Nazi groups
France seeks ban on neo-Nazi groups
Amit Patel
February 3, 2005 08:39:00 am

French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin has called on French lawmakers to back a new proposal to break up all neo-Nazi groups numbering some 3,000 in France. De Villepin said the groups were...

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News Chertoff grilled on interrogation techniques at Homeland Security hearing
Chertoff grilled on interrogation techniques at Homeland Security hearing
Amit Patel
February 3, 2005 08:35:00 am

Michael Chertoff , President Bush's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security faced repeated questions Wednesday from Democrats at his Senate confirmation hearing about any role he might have played while at the Justice...

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News Seven British troops face court martial for murder of Iraqi civilian
Seven British troops face court martial for murder of Iraqi civilian
Amit Patel
February 3, 2005 08:15:00 am

Lord Goldsmith, Britain's attorney general, announced Thursday that seven British soldiers suspected of murdering an Iraqi civilian in southern Iraq will stand trial. The troops, who had been extensively questioned about the death of Nadhem Abdullah on...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ Putnam faces $100 million payout
Corporations and securities brief ~ Putnam faces $100 million payout
Amit Patel
February 2, 2005 02:22:00 pm

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, Putnam Investments , the eighth-largest US mutual fund company, may have to increase the restitution it had agreed to pay investors as part of the massive securities fraud at the company....

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News Corporations & securities brief ~ FERC to ask Enron to return money made during energy crisis
Corporations & securities brief ~ FERC to ask Enron to return money made during energy crisis
Amit Patel
February 1, 2005 02:17:00 pm

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) , who have been examining the trading schemes Enron employed on Western power consumers, contend that the energy giant should...

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Jamaica achieves full independence

On February 9, 1962, Jamaica left the Federation of the West Indies, becoming a fully-independent nation for the first time in its history. The country did, however, remain a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations.

Read the Constitution of Jamaica from the Georgetown University archives.

First US federal anti-narcotics legislation passed

On February 9, 1909, Congress passed the first federal legislation prohibiting narcotics. The "Act to Prohibit Importation and Use Of Opium" barred the importation of opium at other than specified ports and for other than medicinal use.

US House elects John Quincy Adams President

The US House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams as President of the United States on February 9, 1825 after no candidate won a majority of electors in the 1824 presidential election. Adams prevailed by a 13-7-4 vote even though future President Andrew Jackson won more electors than him the previous November. The Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution requires the House to determine the president if nobody secures a majority of electors. Learn more about the Election of 1824.

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