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My military tribunal
May 13, 2005Pages from workers’ lives Too young to join the Army during World War II, Richard Neill worked in the Merchant Marine. That was an equally dangerous job. He was drafted and wounded in the Korean War...
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Iraq upgraded from quagmire to morass
May 13, 2005Situation disastrous but not catastrophic, defense sec’y says Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon today that the conflict in Iraq had improved to the point that it could no longer be considered...
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Perfect storm on pensions, health care
May 13, 2005People Before Profits Quickly converging with the debate on Social Security is the worsening state of the U.S. private pension system. Recent research reported by Physicians for a National Health Program, and by Richard Berner, the...
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Houston janitors fight for justice
May 13, 2005HOUSTON — “It is misery,” said Ercilia Sandoval, who has worked as a janitor in Houston for seven years. In a fiery speech to 1,000 participants in the April 30 Justice for Janitors convention here, the...
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World Notes
May 13, 2005Congo: Militiamen disarm Nearly 12,000 former combatants have disarmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the number of former fighters joining disarmament programs has almost doubled in the last few weeks, the UN...
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