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  • WORLD NOTES

    WORLD NOTES

    April 27, 2007

    Ecuador: Overwhelming support for new constitution By an 82 percent majority, voters on April 15 backed President Rafael Correa’s call for a constituent assembly to fashion a new constitution. “Today the country has buried the past,”...

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  • Union solidarity forces new look at Colombia trade deal

    Union solidarity forces new look at Colombia trade deal

    April 27, 2007

    “Honorable Senators and members of the U.S. Congress: The Uribe government refuses to recognize our basic rights and persecutes and punishes us for exercising our right to peaceful protests,” Colombia’s Oil Workers Union charged in an...

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  • Port plan a win-win for clean air, jobs

    Port plan a win-win for clean air, jobs

    April 27, 2007

    In a move that could ultimately affect all U.S. ports, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — together the country’s biggest port complex — earlier this month announced proposals to slash air pollution from...

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  • Americans want to give undocumented a break

    Americans want to give undocumented a break

    April 27, 2007

    A new USA Today/Gallup Poll showed a whopping 78 percent of the U.S. public favor giving all or most of the 12 million undocumented immigrants a chance to legalize and eventually become U.S. citizens. The poll...

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  • Thousands go back to work at Miss. shipyard

    Thousands go back to work at Miss. shipyard

    April 27, 2007

    Thousands of workers were back on the job April 5 at Northrup Grumman’s huge shipyard in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Pascagoula, Miss., after a 28-day strike that began March 8. The 7,400 workers, most of whom had lost...

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