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Shoe-repairman, veteran, bobbin boy, Communist: 93 years with a twinkle in his eye
April 8, 2009PROVIDENCE, R.I. — John Hovan has been reading this newspaper, and its predecessors going back to the Daily Worker, since the early 1930s — in the depths of the Great Depression. It’s been a key to...
Read more‘West Wing’ stars lobby for Employee Free Choice Act
April 8, 2009WASHINGTON -- (PAI) In their long run on the nation’s television screens, Martin Sheen, Brad Whitford and Richard Schiff were always in the “West Wing,” but never on Capitol Hill -- until now. But on March...
Read moreSlash Afghan casualties, boost civilian aid, aid agencies say
April 8, 2009President Barack Obama came away from NATO’s 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg, France earlier this month with commitments from several European NATO members to send a total of 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan. The new European...
Read morePeace groups hail Obamas vow to abolish nukes
April 8, 2009Leaders of the struggle for nuclear disarmament hailed President Obama’s speech April 5 in Prague, committing the United States to work for the total abolition of nuclear weapons, the first American president ever to make that...
Read moreLandmines threaten 2.7 million Iraqis, official says
April 8, 2009BAGHDAD — The general director of the Iraqi Environment Ministry’s landmines department said Saturday that there are 25 million landmines occupying 1,700 kilometers of Iraqi soil, which in turn threatens 2,117 civilian communities, where 2.7 million...
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