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South America turning against School of Americas
April 14, 2006The School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga., has trained thousands of Latin American soldiers, many of whom have been implicated in the killings, disappearances and massacres that have afflicted the region for decades. Since...
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U.S. drops bid to serve on UN human rights body
April 14, 2006UNITED NATIONS — The United States refused to run for a seat on the newly created UN Human Rights Council, the first session of which will take place in Geneva June 19. While U.S. Ambassador John...
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Alarm over Bush Iran plans
April 14, 2006Despite President Bush’s claim on April 10 that talk of U.S. plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran is “wild speculation,” a number of civilian and military experts are convinced that precisely such an option is...
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Group hails plutonium removal, warns of dangers
April 14, 2006The Department of Energy said last week it plans to remove all “nuclear bomb useable” quantities of plutonium and highly enriched uranium from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by the end of 2014, establishing a new plutonium...
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May Day/Cinco de Mayo supplement to print edition
April 14, 2006May Day/Cinco de Mayo supplement to print edition Advertise your book, bumper sticker, CD or DVD or send greetings in this special supplement to the print edition, which will be published in the May 6-12 issue....
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