The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Santiago, Chile - U.S. President Bush boosted his administration's pressure on Iran Saturday, saying there were indications the country was plowing ahead in the production of a key ingredient for nuclear-weapons fuel. Such a move, he said, would be "a very serious matter" that would undercut Iran's denials that it is seeking to build weapons. On the first day of the annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders, his first summit meeting since winning re-election, Bush also tried to re-establish a unified front against the other nuclear challenge facing his second term: North Korea. Baghdad - Iraq has chosen January 30, 2005, for its first democratic election in decades but violence in Sunni Muslim areas underlined the challenge of holding polls on time. According to Iraq's timetable for democracy, polls must be held by end-January for a transitional parliament that will pick a new government and oversee the writing of a constitution. Beijing - A passenger plane crashed in an ice-covered lake in northern China seconds after takeoff yesterday, killing all 53 people aboard and one person on the ground after an apparent midair explosion. Paris - The Paris Club of creditor nations agreed yesterday to cancel 80 percent of the debt Iraq owes its members, ending a transatlantic dispute and probably setting the framework for debt pardons from other creditors.
