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March 4, 2003
CQ News: Midday
  • Is Preventive Care a Cost Saver?
  • House Intelligence Panel's Report Warns of Emerging Threats
  • House Chairman Wants To Use Bailout Dividends for Affordable Housing Trust
  • Susan Taylor Martin: Vote a loss for U.S. and Turkey
    CIZRE, Turkey -- And Turkey was supposed to be the easy part.

    A bulldog lawyer's civil war on terror
    They called him crazy when he fought big tobacco. This enemy has deeper pockets.

    World in brief: Russia demands fast action for space station
    MOSCOW -- Russia's space chief warned on Monday that time was running out for the United States to help pay for extra Russian spacecraft to run the international space station during the halt in U.S. shuttle flights.

    Nation in brief: Bush offers framework for prescription drug plan
    WASHINGTON -- President Bush offered a rough blueprint Monday for adding drug benefits to Medicare, proposing the government use sweetened benefits to entice seniors into HMOs and private plans, and renewing his call for a discount drug card.

    Iraqis destroy, disclose weapons
    Iraq crushed missiles, sliced casting chambers, unearthed bombs and sent scientists to talk with U.N. weapons inspectors Monday, all in a desperate effort to prove it is disarming before a crucial U.N. report at the end of the week.

    Fighting terror: Hideout may hold terror clues
    WASHINGTON -- FBI and CIA experts dug through computers and piles of other information Monday from the Pakistani home of alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, searching for clues that new terror strikes might be imminent.

    Italy says Red Brigades attack wasn't imminent
    ROME -- Prosecutors said Monday that they doubt two Red Brigades terrorists involved in a deadly train shootout were about to stage an attack but said the suspects might well may have been laying the groundwork for a future assault.

    Greece starts trial of elusive terror cell
    ATHENS, Greece -- In a bunkerlike courtroom guarded from every angle, those accused of being the masterminds and hit men of Greece's deadly November 17 terrorist cell went on trial Monday for a violent legacy that shifted from 1970s Marxist revolt to rage against modern globalization.





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