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  • Cuban foreign minister speaks in Harlem

    Cuban foreign minister speaks in Harlem

    October 10, 2003

    NEW YORK – Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Felipe Pérez Roque made a powerful indictment of the United States’ role in harassing and blackmailing the Cuban people and government throughout the last 40 years when he...

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  • Congress vetoes Bush attack on overtime

    Congress vetoes Bush attack on overtime

    October 10, 2003

    The House of Representatives dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke Oct. 2 by approving a measure that could lead to the reversal of the president’s move to strip overtime pay protections from as many as...

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  • Court upholds pension rights

    Court upholds pension rights

    October 10, 2003

    RTI steelworkers won a major victory when Judge Peter Economus ruled Sept. 30 that the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), the federal agency set up to protect worker’s pensions, illegally refused to pay pensions when RTI...

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  • More setbacks for Bush on Iraq

    More setbacks for Bush on Iraq

    October 10, 2003 By Susan Webb

    The Bush administration’s effort to get international cover for its Iraq occupation suffered a serious setback at the United Nations last week when Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the UN must be given a leading role in...

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  • Frustrated voters approve recall, reject racist Prop. 54

    Frustrated voters approve recall, reject racist Prop. 54

    October 10, 2003

    OAKLAND, Calif. – Frustrated Californians voted to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis Oct. 7 and replace him with Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. There is little sign that the vote represented a tilt to the right by California...

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