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ANC wins big vote in local elections
March 10, 2006The African National Congress won two-thirds of the vote in the March 1 local elections in South Africa, handily defeating its closest rival, the Democratic Alliance, which won 16 percent. The Inkatha Freedom Party won 8...
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Calif. gov fighting uphill battle
March 10, 2006Despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to reinvent himself as a moderate, California’s voters are only slightly more inclined to re-elect him than they were on the eve of his historic drubbing in the November 2005 special...
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S. African women helped crush apartheid
March 10, 2006The 1950s marked a turbulent period in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. At the beginning of the decade, the apartheid regime banned the South African Communist Party, a longtime, militant foe of racism and inequality....
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March 10, 2006H.S. students honor International Women’s Day As a protest against growing attacks on women’s rights, students in Shrewsbury High School in Massachusetts have built an exhibit to honor International Women’s Day, and to shine a spotlight...
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Refinery workers take up collection for Iraqi child
March 10, 2006Sarah, the oldest daughter of Emad Mohsin Jafar, a leader of Iraq’s oil workers union, was burned during a bombing in the first Gulf War, and needs reconstructive surgery. To help Sarah, oil workers at Conoco...
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