and doors in case of a chemical， biologi- cal， or radiological terrorist attack， announce officials with the U.S. Depart- ment of Homeland Security. The depart- ment also recommends that people keep three days worth of bottled water and canned food on hand as well as scissors， a manual can opener， blankets， flashlights， radios， and spare batteries. An Arab television network airs a tape purportedly made by Osama bin Laden in which the head of the aI-Qa ida terrorist network calls on all Muslims to come to the aid of Iraq in the current crisis with the United States. Bin Laden urges Mus- lims to launch suicide attacks against Western targets should the United States initiate a war against Iraq. The International Atomic Energy Agency， the United Nations (UN) Vienna-based nuclear watchdog agency， informs the UN Security Council that North Korea is in violation of its promise not to pursue atomic weapons. Enron Corp.， the failed Houston-based energy trading company， paid no income tax from 1996 through 1999， reveals a joint Congressional committee report on taxation. The doned sheep Dolly is put to death because of premature aging and disease that marred her short life， announces a spokesperson for the Roslin Institute， the I Scottish laboratory where she was cre- Eared in 1996. brawl in an overcrowded second-story htclub in Chicago sets off a deadly ~ede toward the club s single exit on the street. Pepper spray by security guards to break up a at the E2 club in Chicago s South triggered panic in a crowd of 1，100 people. A pile-up halfway a steep and narrow stairwell people dead and more than injured. Authorities claim the city inspectors had cited for olations， was operat- President Jacques Chirac publicly the countries of Central and East- Jrope to keep their opinions regard- D possible U.S.-led war on Iraq to ll~lves or risk losing their chance to ~ European Un on ~ 2，000 U.S. Army and Marine troops be sent to the Philippines to assist ~ing down ~/~ extremist an insurgency by the group Abu Sayyaf， announces the U.S. Department of Defense. Ninety-eight people are killed and at least 200 others are injured when a fire ignited by a pyrotechnic display during a rock concert sweeps through an overcrowded nightclub in West Warwick， near Provi- dence， Rhode Island. The United Nations (UN) delivers an ulti- matum that Iraq s arsenal of missiles exceeding a specified range must be destroyed by March 1. Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix notes that if Iraqi Pres- ident Saddam Hussein refuses to comply， Blix will declare Iraq in \"material breach\" of a UN resolution that it disarm itself of all weapons of mass destruction. The United States submits a proposal to the Unitecf~Nations Security Council ask- ing for a resolution authorizing war against Iraq~on the grounds that Iraq has failed to disarm itself of weapons of mass destruction. British Prime Minister Tony Blair announces plans to combat global warm- ing by cutting carbon dioxide emissions in the United Kingdom (U.K.) by 60 percent over the next 50 years. The prime minis- ter criticizes the government of the United States， the U.K. s chief ally， for backing out of the Kyoto Protocol of 1997， a treaty designed to minimize car- bon dioxide emissions around the world. North Korea has reactivated a nuclear reactor， announce officials with the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. The price of crude oil on world markets climbs to its highest level since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. On the New York Mercantile exchange， the price of a barrel of oil hits $37.70. Analysts connect the spike in oil prices to a U.S. Energy Department report showing a sharp decline in U.S. inventories of oil and refined petroleum products. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pre- sents the members of his new， right-wing coalition government to the Knesset and declares that the government s chief aim is economic recovery. He informs the Knesset that he will not enter into peace negotiations with the Palestinian Author- ity until all violence is halted and YasJr Arafat is replaced as its leader. Vaclav Klaus， a former prime minister of the Czech Republic， is elected the coun- try s president. 1 5
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