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  • Weightlifters help warm US-Cuba relations

    Weightlifters help warm US-Cuba relations

    June 9, 2009 By John Bachtell

    CHICAGO – In another sign that relations are changing between the United States and Cuba, 10 Cuban weightlifters participated in the Pan American and Ibero-American Weightlifting championships here June 4-7. The team consisted of 8 men,...

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  • Obama’s pledge of 600,000 jobs warmly greeted

    Obama’s pledge of 600,000 jobs warmly greeted

    June 9, 2009

    WASHINGTON—President Obama’s promise June 8 to deliver 600,000 jobs this summer under his $787 billion stimulus package drew praise from organizations fighting to lower the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. In a statement from...

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  • The fall of GM  new thinking needed

    The fall of GM new thinking needed

    June 9, 2009

    DETROIT — It was a little more than 30 years ago that General Motors had 395,000 United Auto Workers hourly employees. Two years from now, GM will have 38,000 union workers, a decline of over 90...

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  • Specter tells labor: You’re gonna like my EFCA vote

    Specter tells labor: You’re gonna like my EFCA vote

    June 9, 2009

    Congressional backers of the Employee Free Choice Act are closer than ever to the 60 Senators they need to break a planned Republican filibuster after Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) told a crowd of trade unionists in...

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  • Lebanon incumbents lead vote

    Lebanon incumbents lead vote

    June 9, 2009

    Beirut, Jun 8 (Prensa Latina) Lebanon's March 14 Bloc (M14), which holds the parliamentary majority, maintains its supremacy over the March 8 coalition led by Hezbollah, according to partial official results disclosed there Monday. A report...

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