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Alarm over Bush Iran plans
April 14, 2006Despite President Bush’s claim on April 10 that talk of U.S. plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran is “wild speculation,” a number of civilian and military experts are convinced that precisely such an option is...
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Italians rebuff right-wing Berlusconi
April 14, 2006The center-left coalition headed by Romano Prodi has apparently won the Italian elections by a slim margin of 20,000 votes out of 40 million votes cast. It won a narrow majority of seats in the Chamber...
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Tom DeLay resigns, fate of seat uncertain
April 14, 2006HOUSTON — In the face of spiraling corruption charges, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), the former House majority leader, announced April 3 he will resign his seat in Congress in May or June, thereby avoiding an uphill...
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Maryland lawmakers block school takeovers
April 14, 2006BALTIMORE — Defying Republican Gov. Bob Ehrlich’s veto and Bush administration threats of a cutoff in federal funding, the Maryland General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to block a state takeover of 11 Baltimore public schools under...
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Group hails plutonium removal, warns of dangers
April 14, 2006The Department of Energy said last week it plans to remove all “nuclear bomb useable” quantities of plutonium and highly enriched uranium from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by the end of 2014, establishing a new plutonium...
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