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March 17, 2006Ecuador: Warning strike Ecuador declared a state of emergency in three Amazonian oil provinces last week as 4,000 oil workers participated in a two-day “warning strike” in a dispute over back pay totaling $51 million. The...
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UN agency retreats on plan for Haitian police
March 17, 2006The United Nations mission in Haiti has decided to postpone a tentative agreement that would have placed the Haitian National Police under direct UN control. The move, announced on March 10, came in the wake of...
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Israel storms Jericho jail
March 17, 2006Israeli troops using tanks, helicopters and bulldozers pounded a Palestinian-run prison in the West Bank town of Jericho March 14 to seize Ahmed Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and five...
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NATIONALCLIPS
March 17, 2006GARY, Ind.: Black leaders urge economic empowerment With Katrina exposing America’s dirty secret of the life-and-death meaning of poverty and African American households worth one-tenth of white households, hundreds of Black leaders revived the historic 1972...
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NEWSINBRIEF
March 17, 2006U.S. edging toward dictatorship Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor charged that the attacks on the judiciary by Republican ultra-rightists are inching the country toward dictatorship. O’Connor addressed corporate lawyers at Georgetown University on March...
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