International – Page 542

Cuba offers ray of light in cancer battle

July 23, 2004

Cancer may have met its match, and the potential breakthrough may have far-reaching political ramifications, as well.

Let Cuba live! End the U.S. blockade!

July 23, 2004

The National Board of the Communist Party USA released the following statement on July 19. Fifty-one years ago this week a small number of Cuban patriots took history into their own hands and led an uprising...

Senate report: Iraq intelligence was wrong

July 16, 2004

Although 20 percent of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report on Iraq remains secret, what was released July 9 sheds the cold light of day on the Bush administration’s intelligence used to support its first-strike policy...

New policies on Cuba create backlash

July 15, 2004

New regulations affecting Cuban Americans who go to Cuba to visit family there have backfired. The Bush administration is facing both divisions within the U.S. Cuban community and opposition in Congress. In early May, a Bush-appointed...

Cold numbers show heavy price of Iraq war

July 15, 2004 By Susan Webb

Nearly 900 U.S. troops killed, more than 16,000 ill and injured. Some 9,000-11,000 Iraqis killed and an estimated 40,000 injured. The bill to U.S. taxpayers: $151 billion and counting.