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World Notes
April 15, 2005Côte d’Ivoire: Peace pact signed After four days of talks in Pretoria, South Africa, mediated by that country’s president, Thabo Mbeki, Ivorian government officials and rebel forces signed a new peace agreement April 6 to end...
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Famed attorney blasts U.S. Cuba policy
April 15, 2005HOUSTON — Noted civil rights lawyer Leonard Weinglass blasted U.S. policy on Cuba at Texas Southern University here April 5, charging that the government has been “overtly or covertly attacking” the socialist island since 1960. Over...
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Latin America and the Caribbean move left
April 15, 2005News Analysis In 1913 President Woodrow Wilson, expressing his customary arrogance toward the peoples of Latin America, promised to “teach South American republics to elect good men.” The Bush administration’s attitude toward the newly elected left-leaning...
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Labor, immigrant rights groups oppose Real ID Act
April 15, 2005Labor and immigrant rights organizations assembled at San Jose’s State Building April 7 to kick off national days of action against the Bush administration’s virulently anti-immigrant Real ID Act, now pending in the Senate. They urged...
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Survivors of Hiroshima to join no-nuke rally
April 15, 2005NEW YORK—Sixty years after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed two Japanese cities, incinerating hundreds of thousands of civilians, mayors from around the world — led by the mayors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima — as well as survivors...
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