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Pro-Chavez candidates sweep Venezuela vote

Venezuelans voted Dec. 4 to elect a new National Assembly. The week before, four parties opposed to President Hugo Chavez had withdrawn from the race, calling for a boycott. Chavez’s own party, the Movement for the...

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LETTERS

LETTERS Hurricane Wilma appeal I applied for FEMA, I was denied. I applied for an SBA loan, I was denied. And now I applied for one-time food stamps and I was denied. I just moved to...

Editorial: Young women under attack

It is appalling and cruel that anti-democratic anti-abortion forces, including the Bush Justice Department, are attacking the rights of young women, often the victims of rape and incest. On Nov. 30, the U.S. Supreme Court heard...

Katrina exposes crisis in public health

WASHINGTON (PAI) — Hurricane Katrina shows the U.S. public health care system, which is supposed to handle millions of people in event of a calamity, is in great danger, Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the...