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Memphis 1968: We remember
April 3, 2003An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers. (See related story below)
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Cuba reacts in outrage
March 29, 2003Our people have reacted with deep outrage to the public denunciation of the shameless and repeated acts of provocation by the Chief of the United States Interests Section in Cuba, acts that have clearly been conceived...
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Cuban Passenger Plane Hijacked And Flown To The United States
March 29, 2003From: Embassy of Cuba, Friday, March 21, 2003 Wednesday March 19, at 6:51 p.m., a DC-3 Aerotaxi belonging to Empresa Nacional de Servicios Aéreos (registration CUT-1 192, flight number CNI877), took off from Nueva Gerona Airport...
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Music, money and war: Dixie Chicks vs. Clear Channel
March 28, 2003Perhaps since the dawn of time, music has been a means of political expression. A recent song, “Traveling Soldier,” by one of country music’s newest and biggest stars, the Dixie Chicks, continues that tradition. The song...
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Moore slams war at Oscars
March 28, 2003Michael Moore put it all out there for the world to see on Oscar night. Moore, who received a standing ovation from the assembled celebrities, invited the other nominees for best documentary film to join him...
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