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  • Oil prices: Targeting China and all labor

    Oil prices: Targeting China and all labor

    August 19, 2005 By Wadi’h Halabi

    Oil hit $65 a barrel on speculative markets last week, an all-time high. Gasoline and heating fuel prices quickly followed. Natural gas is not far behind.

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  • Arden House workers win great contract

    Arden House workers win great contract

    August 19, 2005

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Workers at Arden House nursing home here unanimously ratified a “great contract” Aug. 16 morning after being locked out for two weeks. They won substantial increases in wages and benefits as a...

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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    August 19, 2005

    Haiti: Members of Congress write Bush Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and 28 other members of Congress are calling on President Bush to urge Haiti’s interim government to immediately and unconditionally release Father Gerard Jean-Juste from prison...

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  • Senate blocks military aid to Indonesia

    Senate blocks military aid to Indonesia

    August 19, 2005

    News Analysis The U.S. Senate voted last month to keep restrictions against financial aid and training for the Indonesian military. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have pushed for full restoration of...

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  • UN spotlights challenges facing worlds youth

    UN spotlights challenges facing worlds youth

    August 19, 2005

    UNITED NATIONS — International Youth Day was commemorated here Aug. 12 with activities celebrating youth culture in all of its diversity — from Brooklyn to China — as well as more poignant reminders of the desperate...

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