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  • Autoworkers confront uncertain future

    Autoworkers confront uncertain future

    March 31, 2006

    With all the proposals being floated in auto, the one constant is GM’s and Delphi’s efforts to increase profits by cutting jobs and benefits. A recent agreement between GM, Delphi and the United Auto Workers Union...

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  • WORLDNOTES

    WORLDNOTES

    March 31, 2006

    Haiti: High child mortality rate According to a recently released UNICEF report titled “Child Alert: Haiti,” roughly 1 of every 8 children born in Haiti are likely to die before the age of 5, the highest...

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  • Cuban medics prepare to leave Pakistan

    Cuban medics prepare to leave Pakistan

    March 31, 2006

    Members of Cuba’s Henry Reeve Brigade are returning from medical work in Pakistan where they arrived six months ago, six days after the Oct. 8 earthquake. Formed last year, the brigade provides disaster relief anywhere in...

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  • Efforts to overturn Belarus elections fail

    Efforts to overturn Belarus elections fail

    March 31, 2006

    After several days of tolerating illegal and increasingly violent protests against the results of the country’s recent presidential elections, the Belarusian government put a stop to them during the early morning hours of March 25. According...

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  • Nationwide strike rocks Greece

    Nationwide strike rocks Greece

    March 31, 2006

    ATHENS, Greece — Several months of intensified trade union activity in Greece culminated in a nationwide strike March 15 where thousands upon thousands of working people, the unemployed, university and high school students and pensioners flooded...

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