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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
April 6, 2007Things don’t go better with Coca-Cola Teamsters at more than 100 plants in the U.S. and students at more than 70 campuses across the country held shop-floor actions and wore stickers in a national action April...
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WORLD NOTES
April 6, 2007Venezuela: Gov’t redistributes agricultural land Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez used his weekly radio program March 25 to announce the expropriation of 815,000 acres from 16 large estates — all idle, he said —for use primarily as...
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Mexico City poised to legalize abortion
April 6, 2007MEXICO CITY — A legislative proposal to legalize abortion in Mexico’s Federal District (D.F.), the area that encompasses Mexico City, is encountering strong resistance from right-wing forces here. But its passage seems likely. Abortion is generally...
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UN rights council deliberates on Cuban 5
April 6, 2007Cuba is determined to keep the case of the Cuban Five before the world. Its diplomats were in Geneva, Switzerland, from March 12-30 at the fourth session of the United Nation’s Human Rights Council. Facing a...
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Northern Ireland plan greeted as step forward
April 6, 2007The dramatic March 26 announcement of a deal to share power by the leaders of Northern Ireland’s major Protestant and Catholic parties — historical archenemies Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party and Gerry Adams of...
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