Bomb Alert at U.S. Consulate in Durban, South Africa, forced staff to evacuate for several hours. Bomb alert at a building housing the U.K. consulate forced staff out of the building. Disease linked to SARS virus traced to Hong Kong hotel where six other guests contracted the illness. U.N. quickly organized previously unplanned strike at Iraq’s key leadership in the first salvos of a war against that nation today, an operation that would have been impossible 12 years ago.”]

