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