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  • Dear Santa

    Dear Santa

    December 22, 2006

    About 200 demonstrators participated in a holiday-themed picket line and rally at the Woodfin Suites Hotel in Emeryville, Calif., Dec. 18. They were protesting the firings of 21 immigrant workers who had been involved in a...

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  • Too late Milton Friedman

    Too late Milton Friedman

    December 22, 2006

    Had Milton Friedman landed on earth in 1712, his work may have earned a mention in early national accounting schemes. But he was born in 1912, too late. Growing up in an epoch of crises, wars...

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  • Striking Goodyear workers seek global support

    Striking Goodyear workers seek global support

    December 22, 2006

    CLEVELAND (AP) — Birgit Birgersson-Brorsson, a union officer for IF Metall in Sweden, spent an afternoon recently with strikers on a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. picket line. Wood scraps burning in a barrel helped keep...

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  • WORLD NOTES

    WORLD NOTES

    December 22, 2006

    Latvia: Occupying powers at odds over Afghanistan At a NATO leaders’ conference held in Riga, Latvia, in early December, French, German, Italian, and Spanish delegates rejected the Bush administration’s plan to open up the organization to...

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  • CPUSA leaders return from China, Vietnam

    CPUSA leaders return from China, Vietnam

    December 22, 2006

    A Communist Party USA delegation to China and Vietnam returned to the United States on Dec. 12 with a wealth of political and cultural experiences they say they hope to share with the U.S. public in...

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