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  • War, deception and the White House

    War, deception and the White House

    July 1, 2003

    News Analysis Speaking on the Senate floor June 24, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) assailed efforts to cover up the Bush administration’s manipulation of intelligence to justify war on Iraq. Byrd said, “We must be straight with...

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  • PUSH convention challenges candidates

    PUSH convention challenges candidates

    July 1, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

    CHICAGO – Delegates to the 32nd Annual Conference of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition grilled seven of the nine candidates seeking the Democratic Party presidential nomination and called for a change in the nation’s foreign and domestic priorities.

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  • Striking Tyson Foods workers hold firm

    Striking Tyson Foods workers hold firm

    July 1, 2003 By Babette Grunow And Gary Grass

    JEFFERSON, Wis. – Solidarity with striking Tyson Foods workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 538, continues to grow as 500 strikers and supporters rallied here June 22. As the strike approaches its fifth...

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  • Iraq quagmire echoes Vietnam

    Iraq quagmire echoes Vietnam

    July 1, 2003 By Susan Webb

    Talk of a U.S. quagmire in Iraq is mounting as attacks on U.S. and British soldiers ratchet upward. A harrowing report in the London Evening Standard June 15 gives a graphic picture of traumatized American soldiers...

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  • High court upholds affirmative action

    High court upholds affirmative action

    July 1, 2003

    WASHINGTON – The grassroots movement that marched and rallied in defense of affirmative action over the last decade hailed the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision, June 23, upholding race-conscious admissions programs at the University of...

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