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  • Cuban doctors to treat Venezuelas poor

    Cuban doctors to treat Venezuelas poor

    July 11, 2003

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that almost 1,000 Cuban doctors will begin to arrive this week to work in severely under-serviced and impoverished areas of the country. Venezuelan medics have refused to work in these areas....

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  • Israeli-Palestinian peace group formed

    Israeli-Palestinian peace group formed

    July 11, 2003

    TEL-AVIV – The founding conference of a new Israeli-Palestinian Joint Action Group for Peace (JAGP) took place on June 28 in Ramallah, the still-besieged seat of the Palestinian Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Some 300...

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  • Tulia victims released from jail

    Tulia victims released from jail

    July 11, 2003

    AUSTIN, Texas – All Joe Moore wanted to do after being freed from a Texas prison on June 16 was to go home, eat some barbecued ribs, and take a hot bath. Moore, 56 and suffering...

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  • Rosenbergs legacy saluted, celebrated

    Rosenbergs legacy saluted, celebrated

    July 11, 2003

    NEW YORK – Does it seem odd that the commemoration of the execution 50 years ago of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for a crime they didn’t commit would be a joyous affair? Both members of the...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    July 11, 2003

    PITTSBURGH, Penn.: Goodyear talks break off Negotiators for 19,000 active rubber workers and 22,000 retirees at Goodyear Rubber Company are not cutting their own throats. On June 28, leaders of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA)...

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