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  • A complication of adverse conditions

    A complication of adverse conditions

    June 8, 2007

    The eruption of internal clashes between Fatah and Hamas recently in Gaza was a renewal of the fighting that blighted the Strip in the months before the agreement to form a unity government. It came as...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    June 8, 2007

    Don’t agree I was appalled by Tim Wheeler’s opinion piece attacking the call for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq (“The dubious history of a slogan” PWW 5/26-6/1). Yes, there are some people in...

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  • EDITORIAL: Cold War, reloaded

    EDITORIAL: Cold War, reloaded

    June 8, 2007

    The Bush administration’s planned anti-missile complex in eastern Europe and its joint development of an anti-missile system with Japan are raising the specter of a new Cold War with far-reaching consequences for global political stability. Russian...

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  • Villa Grimaldi: Chiles memorial to victims of torture

    Villa Grimaldi: Chiles memorial to victims of torture

    June 8, 2007 By Mark Almberg

    Despite the restoration of many democratic freedoms in Chile over the past decade, the country is still saddled with the “Pinochet constitution,” a document that is skewed in favor of the interests of foreign corporations, big...

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  • Smithfield worker dies

    Smithfield worker dies

    June 8, 2007

    Smithfield Packing livestock worker Emmanuel McKoy, 27, died June 1 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Although the cause of his death has not been determined, McKoy struggled with Type 1 diabetes and experienced health problems from the...

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