Robert Hardt Jr.
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BLOOMY'S POVERTY CRY AIMED AT ALBANY
April 16, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday desperately tried to call Albany's budgetary bluff by unveiling a "doomsday" fiscal plan that he says he'll have to enact if the state doesn't help bail out...
COLIN POWELL YESTERDAY SAID THAT A TEAM OF AMERICAN ADVISERS WILL BE SENT TO IRAQ THIS WEEK TO BEGIN PLANNING A POSTWAR GOVERNMENT
April 8, 2003 | 4:00amSecretary of State Colin Powell yesterday said that a team of American advisers will be sent to Iraq this week to begin planning a postwar government there. Speaking to reporters...
6 MOS. 'TIL NEW REGIME
April 7, 2003 | 4:00amDeputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz yesterday said it will take more than six months to establish a new Iraqi government after the fall of Saddam Hussein - while a top...
'MONTHS' TO HAVE NEW RULE IN PLACE
April 7, 2003 | 4:00amDeputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz yesterday said it will take more than six months for a new Iraqi government to be established after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Speaking on...
HILL WORKS OVERTIME FOR HEROES
April 3, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic lawmakers yesterday attacked a powerful Republican senator for saying that New York City firefighters and police officers should not ask for all of their overtime when they're...
KERRY LEADS IN POLLS, LAGS IN FUNDS
April 3, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry - who has been leading the crowded nine-way primary race in most polls - yesterday revealed that he's in second place when it...
POL URGES UNPAID COP OVERTIME
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amPowerful Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens suggested yesterday that New York's cops and firefighters should work overtime without pay as a wartime sacrifice. "I really feel strongly that we ought to...
DEM EDWARDS PICKS UP $7.4M FOR PREZ RUN
April 2, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards yesterday said he raised about $7.4 million in the first three months of the year - an amount far greater than what most...
MINES HALT BRIT FOOD SHIP
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A British relief ship headed for southern Iraq with 312 tons of food and water had to be turned back yesterday after mines were discovered in a key...
UNDERWATER MINES HALT BRIT FOOD SHIP
March 28, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A British relief ship headed for southern Iraq with 312 tons of food and water had to be turned back yesterday after mines were discovered in a key...
FEEDING THE INNOCENT - ALLIES START HANDING OUT FOOD AND WATER
March 27, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The first trucks filled with food and water rolled into Iraq yesterday as American and British troops helped relief workers hand out tens of thousands of CARE packages...
BUSH BARES COST AS $$ WAR LOOMS
March 25, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush today is set to ask Congress for $75 billion to pay for an expected monthlong war in Iraq - but is calling for a Homeland-security budget...
SURRENDER OR BE DESTROYED ; HORDES GIVE UP AS TOP THUGS IGNORE THREAT
March 22, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - As a major Iraqi general and thousands of troops surrendered to American forces yesterday, top officials in the Bush administration stepped up the pressure on Saddam Hussein and...
SADDAM MISSILES SPARK CHEM FEAR FOR GIS IN DESERT
March 21, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Iraq struck back at the United States yesterday by firing as many as a dozen missiles at troops inside Kuwait. The retaliatory blitz sent soldiers scrambling into their...
HANS BLIX YESTERDAY SAID IRAQ VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT WITH THE UNITED NATIONS
March 21, 2003 | 5:00amHINGTON - Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix yesterday said Iraq violated its agreement with the United Nations if the missiles it fired at American troops were Scuds. "I'm very...
BREAKTHROUGH IN 'DEATH FLU' PROBE
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amAt least six of the early victims of the mysterious flu-like disease that has set off a global alert appear to have caught it from a sick doctor in a...
MIKE'S $ECURITY PUSH: PLEADS HIS CASE TO BUSH
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - While trying to reassure New Yorkers that they are safe on the eve of war, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday met with President Bush to push for more homeland-security funding...
MIKE IN D.C. FOR $ECURITY SIT-DOWN
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - While trying to reassure New Yorkers that they are safe on the eve of war, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday met with President Bush to push for more homeland-security funding...
RADIO RAIDERS BOOT BUTCHER OFF AIR
March 20, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Just minutes before the first bombs began falling on Baghdad last night, listeners to the Iraqi state radio were told in Arabic: "This is the day we have...
THEY DON'T HAVE FROGS LEGS OR CHAMPAGNE ON THEIR MENU, BUT AMERICA'S MARINES ARE BEING FED BY THE FRENCH
March 19, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - They don't have frogs legs or champagne on their menu, but America's Marines are being fed by the French. A Marine Corps spokesman yesterday said that despite France's...