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NATIONAL CLIPS
March 30, 2007PITTSBURGH: ‘Health care, not warfare’ “I’d rather see 1,500 more beds than 1,500 parking spaces,” said Iraq veteran Sgt. Geoffrey Millard as he stood in front of a parking garage being built at the Veterans Administration...
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Immokalee workers may launch boycott of McDs
March 30, 2007CHICAGO — Imagine waking up every morning, still dark outside, and then have to pick tomatoes for a typical 10-hour workday, seven days a week, in sweatshop conditions with armed guards watching over you. Sound back-breaking...
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German union backs U.S. Chrysler workers
March 30, 2007The 2.4-million-member IG Metall union, representing German blue- and white-collar metalworkers — including autoworkers at Daimler-Chrysler’s German plants — is opposing the company’s move to jettison its U.S. Chrysler division, and calling for a solution that...
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Calls for diplomacy as tensions rise on Iran
March 30, 2007UNITED NATIONS — The UN Security Council unanimously added further sanctions on Iran, March 24, for not complying with a February deadline for halting its nuclear activities. But diplomats said sanctions were not the solution and...
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Senate votes to pull troops from Iraq by 08
March 30, 2007WASHINGTON — In a sharp rebuff to President George W. Bush, both the House and Senate have approved versions of a supplemental spending bill calling for withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq next year. The...
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