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  • International Notes

    International Notes

    August 29, 2003

    Cuba: Trade pacts signed with Alabama The State of Alabama signed three trade agreements in Havana last week. On Aug. 21, Ron Sparks, the state’s commissioner for agriculture and industry, and Pedro Alvarez, president of the...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    August 22, 2003

    Swaziland: Protesters demand democracy Swazi demonstrators and their South African supporters wound up four days of protests for democracy and human rights Aug. 15 with a joint rally at the Oshoek border post between the two...

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  • Soldier Sal is safe  so far

    Soldier Sal is safe so far

    August 15, 2003

    Sal, a young Texas soldier in Iraq, writes to let us know that he is OK. Hi Jim, Just a letter to let everyone know I am OK. Nothing bad happened. Before I left on the...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    August 15, 2003

    Iraq: Protest of fuel & power shortages Protests continued early this week in Basra, the country’s largest city, and the surrounding area against prolonged shortages of electricity and gasoline that are making life miserable in the...

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  • Bushs Senegal visit uncensored

    Bushs Senegal visit uncensored

    August 15, 2003

    The following is an abridged e-mail sent by a Senegalese woman and health activist to friends. It gives an uncensored view of George W. Bush’s Africa visit. DAKAR, Senegal – [Bush’s] visit has been such an...

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