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Canadas Communists launch election campaign
December 9, 2005The Communist Party of Canada announced Nov. 28 that it will campaign on a platform for peace, jobs, democracy and sovereignty in the coming federal election, now expected on Jan. 23. The party will be running...
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World Notes
December 9, 2005S. Africa: High court OKs same-sex marriage Following court decisions in earlier years outlawing discrimination and expanding gay rights, South Africa’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously Dec. 1 to allow same-sex marriages. The court gave Parliament a...
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Pro-Chavez candidates sweep Venezuela vote
December 9, 2005Venezuelans voted Dec. 4 to elect a new National Assembly. The week before, four parties opposed to President Hugo Chavez had withdrawn from the race, calling for a boycott. Chavez’s own party, the Movement for the...
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Agent Orange victims: The war continues in the bodies of Vietnamese
December 9, 2005CHICAGO — Vietnamese survivors of Agent Orange, one of many poisonous chemical defoliants used by the United States during the Vietnam War, are still seeking justice, 30 years later. While U.S. veterans have won partial compensation...
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Memo reveals the real Alito
December 9, 2005On Nov. 30 the National Archives released a 1985 memo from Samuel A. Alito Jr., then a Reagan administration lawyer, to the solicitor general, which said, “We should make clear that we disagree with Roe v....
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