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International notes
August 1, 2004Greece: Olympic construction takes big toll George Theodorou, head of the Greek Construction Workers’ Union, told the BBC last week that he has details of 14 workers who have died while building facilities for next month’s...
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Chvez foe calls for violence, dictatorship
August 1, 2004CARACAS – Venezuelan opposition leader and two-time president Carlos Andres Perez has made a series of statements calling for violence to remove President Hugo Chávez from office, and hinting that the Venezuelan opposition may have to...
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Russian communists hit by dirty tricks
August 1, 2004The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, with 560,000 members and roughly 10 million voters, is one of the world’s largest non-governing communist parties. It is also the only opposition party represented in the Russian State...
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Castro slams Bush on sex, lies, drinking
July 31, 2004During his annual July 26th speech, Cuban President Fidel Castro slammed George W. Bush’s unfounded charge that Cuba promotes “sex tourism.”
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Cuba offers ray of light in cancer battle
July 23, 2004Cancer may have met its match, and the potential breakthrough may have far-reaching political ramifications, as well.
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