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  • Thousands caught in deportation nightmare

    Thousands caught in deportation nightmare

    August 1, 2003

    Less than two weeks after Rabih Haddad’s wife vowed to clear the name of her deported husband, she and three of her children have themselves been deported. Salma Al-Rushaid and her children, ages 5 through 13,...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    July 25, 2003

    Cuba: Charges of interference refuted In a July 19 statement, Cuba’s Foreign Ministry sharply rejected charges in U.S. media that Cuba is interfering in U.S. satellite transmissions to Iran. Granma said some of the allegations quote...

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  • BBC spotlights Israels WMDs

    BBC spotlights Israels WMDs

    July 25, 2003

    In a recent 50-minute television documentary entitled, “Israel’s Secret Weapons,” the British Broadcasting Corp.’s World Service points its finger at Israel’s nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction. The BBC documentary opens with four questions:...

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  • Dominican impoverishment deepens

    Dominican impoverishment deepens

    July 25, 2003

    SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Dominicans are much poorer today than six months ago. The devastating effects of the financial crisis and the devaluation of the peso in the first half of 2003 have dramatically reduced...

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  • Bush warhawks beg UN for help

    Bush warhawks beg UN for help

    July 25, 2003 By Susan Webb

    The Bush administration, which thumbed its nose at the United Nations before the Iraq war, has now been forced to beg the UN for help with its foundering occupation.

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