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WORLD NOTES: Sept. 22
September 21, 2007South Africa: Cosatu challenges ANC leaders On Sept. 12, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) rejected nominees for the South African Broadcasting Corp.’s board of directors proposed by Parliament, where the African National Congress...
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Chile, Venezuela mark other Sept. 11
September 21, 2007Observances in Venezuela and Chile memorializing the death, 34 years ago, of Chile’s democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende, diverged widely. Allende died in a right-wing military coup in 1973. The Nixon administration employed military aid,...
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Facing impasse and scandals, Japans premier resigns
September 21, 2007After his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a crushing defeat in elections to Parliament’s upper house in late July, and after vowing to tough it out, Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe stunned the nation Sept....
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Greek elections show mounting discontent
September 21, 2007ATHENS, Greece — The Sept. 16 parliamentary elections here handed the conservative New Democracy Party a 4-percentage-point re-election victory over the liberal opposition PASOK party. New Democracy won 42 percent of the vote and PASOK got...
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Anti-abortion zealots descend on Aurora
September 21, 2007AURORA, Ill. — This large Chicago suburb is at the forefront of the latest round of reproductive health battles as the religious right attempts to undermine the opening of a new Planned Parenthood clinic. The clinic...
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