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Puerto Ricans condemn FBI killing
October 7, 2005Anger was felt across the island nation of Puerto Rico after the news spread that FBI agents had shot and killed independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios. Ojeda, head of the underground Puerto Rican group Ejercito Popular...
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U.S. challenges decision to retry Cuban 5 case
October 7, 2005The top federal prosecutor in Miami, R. Alexander Acosta, announced Sept. 29 that the full 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was being asked to reconsider a recent decision by a three-judge panel of that court...
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Texas judge rules against Posada extradition
October 7, 2005“It’s bad enough when the world knows that we’re rendering suspected Islamic terrorists to countries that routinely use terror,” said an unnamed State Department official to a reporter on Sept. 26. “But here we have someone...
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Tucson unites behind miners
October 7, 2005TUCSON, Ariz. — Workers in Mexico are “standing strong” with the 1,500 copper miners on strike against multinational giant ASARCO corporation, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson told a Sept. 29 rally here. Two hundred supporters...
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Bloomberg: the education mayor?
October 7, 2005NEW YORK — Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg is campaigning for re-election as an “education mayor,” but many say the current state of city schools — overcrowded, in disrepair, with abysmal graduation rates — proves him to...
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