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WORLD NOTES
June 15, 2007South Africa: Public workers go on strike By June 10, a weeklong strike of public service workers called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) had become “the most devastating strike in post-apartheid South...
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Protests mark G-8 summit in Germany
June 15, 2007News Analysis Demonstrators from throughout Europe flooded Germany last week to protest the G-8 Summit held June 6-8 in the coastal town of Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea. Security measures for the summit, which was attended...
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Missile base flap shows Czech rightward trajectory
June 15, 2007NewsAnalysis A dispute has arisen within the Czech Republic over Bush administration plans to set up a “Star Wars”-type anti-missile base south of the capital, Prague, and another in Poland. Russian President Vladimir Putin reacted angrily...
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Italys Communists grapple with political realities
June 15, 2007RIMINI, Italy — The recent general elections here resulted in a defeat for the ultra-right Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister, and his supporting parties. But the government, now run by a coalition of center-left parties and...
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Bush campaigns to revive immigration bill
June 15, 2007In his June 9 national radio address, President Bush strongly endorsed the “Grand Bargain” immigration bill, S 1348, that stalled in the Senate, June 7, when just 45 of a necessary 60 senators were ready to...
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