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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    February 7, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    DULUTH, Minn.: Freighters iced in: Peace marchers free Lake Superior shipping is locked by ice and -13 degree weather but on January 25, 3,000 residents filled the streets of this port city demanding peace with Iraq....

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  • Bush budget blasted

    Bush budget blasted

    February 7, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

    President Bush’s $2.23 trillion budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 is loaded with more than a trillion dollars in tax breaks for the rich, increased spending for the military-industrial complex and cuts in funding...

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  • Reclaiming the Lenin statue in Seattle

    Reclaiming the Lenin statue in Seattle

    February 7, 2003

    As this paper has written about once before, in 1994, the city of Seattle became home to a Lenin statue that had originally been constructed in Slovakia. It was placed in the Fremont neighborhood, known by...

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  • World mourns Columbia crew

    World mourns Columbia crew

    February 7, 2003

    DALLAS, Texas – Even as the nation and the world mourn for astronauts Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Michael Anderson, William McCool, and Ilan Ramon, people here and around the world seek answers...

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  • AFL-CIO tells Bush and Congress: Get real on the economy

    AFL-CIO tells Bush and Congress: Get real on the economy

    January 31, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

    The AFL-CIO charged in a Jan. 27 report that, despite President Bush’s rosy claims, the economy is in worse shape than it was two years ago when measured by all the key indicators important to working...

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