1. maaliskuuta 2000 oli keskiviikkona tähtimerkin ♓ alla. Se oli 60 päivä vuodesta. Yhdysvaltain presidentti oli William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Jos olet syntynyt tänä päivänä, olet 26 vuotta vanha. Viimeisin syntymäpäiväsi oli sunnuntaina 1. maaliskuuta 2026, 102 päivää sitten. Seuraava syntymäpäiväsi on maanantaina 1. maaliskuuta 2027, 262 päivän kuluttua. Olet elänyt 9 598 päivää tai noin 230 363 tuntia tai noin 13 821 799 minuuttia tai noin 829 307 940 sekuntia.
Date: 02 March 2000
By James Dao
James Dao
Bill Bradley, campaigning for presidential nomination, has imposed 'rules' by which voters can ask him questions at almost every event, almost every day, but reporters must wait for news conferences, usually four each week and usually short; Bradley devotes relatively little time to schmoozing with press crew assigned to trail him (M)
Date: 02 March 2000
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Katharine Seelye
Vice Pres Al Gore's campaign operation provides vivid counterpart to Sen John McCain's accessibity to news media and his unending conversations with traveling press entourage; reporters covering Gore can go for days without seeing him; Gore has become extremely disciplined candidate, saying just what he wants and going no further; this rankles reporters, but it has proved successful strategy; he is undefeated so far in primaries, and has Democratic presidential nomination within his grasp; Gore has little reason to change to unscripted format and its obvious pitfalls; photo (M)
Date: 02 March 2000
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
Rarely seen paintings and sculpture by artists including Chagall, Sonia Delaunay, Jacques Lipchitz, Modigliani, Chaim Soutine and Max Weber will be exhibited at Jewish Museum in Manhattan; photo; Reel to Real motion picture festival at Lincoln Center will show excerpts from old westerns in its Back in the Saddle Again series; Dick Hyman will hold reunion of pianists and other alumni of Benny Goodman's band at 92d Street Y; photo; Clara Sanchez wins Alfaguara book prize in Madrid for The Last News From Paradise; Writers Guild of America names Czech Pres Vaclav Havel recipient of Evelyn F Burkey Award for literature (M)
Date: 02 March 2000
By Jane Perlez
Jane Perlez
Investigator for Human Rights Watch tells Congress his group has documented three 'large-scale massacres' by Russian forces in Chechnya; this prompts Democratic and Republican senators to criticize Clinton administration, saying it is playing down Russia's conduct in war to keep its relationship with Moscow intact for other issues; Sen Jesse Helms condemns what he calls portrayal of Chechen war as legitimate battle against terrorists; Sen Joseph R Biden Jr accuses State Dept of not working hard enough to ensure release of Russian war reporter, Andrei Babitsky, who works for American-financed Radio Liberty; Babitsky has described his monthlong detention as apparently work of domestic Russian agency, Federal Security Service (M)
Date: 01 March 2000
By Michael R. Gordon
Michael Gordon
Radio Liberty reporter Andrei Babitsky returns to Moscow over month after he disappeared in Chechnya, and says he and others had been beaten in Russian camp (M)
Date: 01 March 2000
By Patrick E. Tyler
Patrick Tyler
Russian military, which been trying to retake southern Chechnya region from separatists, guides journalists and European officials through Chernokozovo prison in effort to refute allegations of brutality and torture that former inmates have made to human rights organizations; map; photo (M)
Date: 01 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SDL Inc acquires Veritech Microwave Inc for $590 million in stock (S)
Date: 02 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
TXU Corp, owner of largest utility in Texas, agrees to sell its natural gas gathering and processing business in the state to Cantera Resources Inc for $105 million (S)
Date: 02 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Western Resources Inc acquires European operations of its money-losing home-security affiliate, Protection One Inc, for $244 million (S)
Date: 01 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Jupiter Communications Inc acquires Net Market Makers and Internet Research Group for $20 million in cash and $30.6 million in stock; Jupiter does not say how much it is paying for each acquisition (S)