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Panama releases 4 anti-Cuba terrorists
September 10, 2004On Aug. 26, Mireya Moscoso, not quite done with her term as president of Panama, pardoned four jailed terrorists. To the cheers and warm embraces of hundreds of like-minded Floridians, three well-known criminals returned home to...
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Cuban Americans denounce Bush travel restrictions as anti-family
September 10, 2004MIAMI — An angry backlash has erupted in Miami’s “Little Havana” against George W. Bush’s new regulations sharply limiting Cuban Americans’ contacts with their families in Cuba. “These people are out of their minds,” said Cuban-born...
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Philly unions working without a contract
September 10, 2004PHILADELPHIA — Unionized city workers here who provide essential public services, excluding police and fire personnel, are now in their third month working without a contract. The previous four-year contracts expired June 30 and the city’s...
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Unions demand troops come home from Iraq
September 10, 2004The Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) passed resolutions in support of bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq just days before the death toll there rose above 1,000. The CWA...
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New York City labor slams Bush agenda
September 10, 2004NEW YORK — This city’s labor movement flexed its muscle outside the Republican National Convention Sept. 1 as some 50,000 protesters came out to oppose the Bush agenda — including the war in Iraq and the...
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