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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    August 12, 2005

    India: Fired Honda workers reinstated A months-long labor protest ended with reinstatement of 57 fired workers at Honda Motors’ Gurgaon plant, IPS news service reported Aug. 3. The company also agreed to increase wages and said...

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  • Arabs in Israel drawn into Gaza pullout debate

    Arabs in Israel drawn into Gaza pullout debate

    August 12, 2005

    News Analysis Until last weekend Israel’s 1 million Palestinian citizens had stayed out of the debate about the country’s imminent disengagement from Gaza. “It’s not our story,” they said when pressed, “this is an entirely Jewish...

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  • Bush appoints transition coordinator for Cuba

    Bush appoints transition coordinator for Cuba

    August 12, 2005

    A 2004 report of President Bush’s “Commission for Assistance for a Free Cuba” called for escalating economic pressure on Cuba, funding internal opposition forces and developing mechanisms for privatizing the island’s enterprises in a post-socialist society....

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  • Sudanese leaders death clouds peace accord

    Sudanese leaders death clouds peace accord

    August 12, 2005

    News Analysis Meaningful progress toward ending the decades-long civil war between northern Sudan and southern Sudan was thrown into doubt with the death of Dr. John Garang de Mabior, July 30. Garang, 60, the leader of...

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  • Defying blockade, U.S. group returns from Cuba

    Defying blockade, U.S. group returns from Cuba

    August 12, 2005

    BUFFALO, N.Y. – After visiting Cuba for two weeks, 60 members of the 36th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade trekked across the Peace Bridge over the Niagara River Aug. 1 and presented themselves to U.S. border...

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