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100,000 rally for peace in London
August 11, 2006LONDON — On only a week’s notice, over 100,000 people took to the streets here Aug. 5 to demand an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon. Having assembled at Hyde Park’s Speakers’ Corner under the midday sun, the...
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Hammer on ballot
August 11, 2006HOUSTON — Tina Benkiser, chair of the Texas Republican Party, lost in her attempt to remove former GOP Rep. Tom DeLay from November’s ballot. The GOP argued that he would not be a resident of Texas...
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Hiroshima commemorated
August 11, 2006LIVERMORE, Calif. — Demonstrations across the country this week remembered the victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. Organizers said over 80 events coordinated by United for...
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Public workers map plan for 21st century
August 11, 2006CHICAGO — “It’s time, past time, that our soldiers come back home to their families” from Iraq, said Gerald McEntee, international president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union, in his keynote...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
August 11, 2006CRAWFORD, Texas: Sheehan returns to Camp Casey “Last summer I made a commitment to be here every time George Bush was supposed to be on vacation,” said Gold Star peace mother Cindy Sheehan last week. Her...
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