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Hold your ground, refuse to surrender
April 15, 2005Two leading Democratic strategists, James Carville and Stanley Greenberg, publicly took their party to task for its “just say no” approach to President Bush’s proposed privatization and benefit cuts. “To say there is no problem simply...
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Mary Pullins: Steel union pioneer
April 15, 2005Pages from workers’ lives The steelworkers’ retiree meeting sprung to attention when Mary Pullins walked in. Veteran of 24 years at US Steel and only 103 years old, she walked with sure steps to the speaker’s...
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World Notes
April 15, 2005Côte d’Ivoire: Peace pact signed After four days of talks in Pretoria, South Africa, mediated by that country’s president, Thabo Mbeki, Ivorian government officials and rebel forces signed a new peace agreement April 6 to end...
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Famed attorney blasts U.S. Cuba policy
April 15, 2005HOUSTON — Noted civil rights lawyer Leonard Weinglass blasted U.S. policy on Cuba at Texas Southern University here April 5, charging that the government has been “overtly or covertly attacking” the socialist island since 1960. Over...
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Latin America and the Caribbean move left
April 15, 2005News Analysis In 1913 President Woodrow Wilson, expressing his customary arrogance toward the peoples of Latin America, promised to “teach South American republics to elect good men.” The Bush administration’s attitude toward the newly elected left-leaning...
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