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Worldnotes – June 14, 2008
June 14, 2008Germany: The Left Party sets course “The wind of history is in our sails,” Oscar Lafontaine proclaimed as 500 delegates of the Left Party, Germany’s third largest political party which evolved from the Socialist Unity Party...
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A small picket line turns into a mass outpouring
June 14, 2008CHICAGO – 60 workers who have, for five years, been taking turns to march the picket line in front of the Congress Hotel here could not conceal their joy June 11 as thousands of trade union...
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Court gives mixed decision on Cuban Five
June 14, 2008Declares no “top secret” info gathered, but upholds convictions In the complicated case of five Cuban men arrested on various charges of conspiracy almost 10 years ago, an appeals court upheld their convictions June 4, while...
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Long denied their rights, domestic workers find their voices
June 14, 2008WEST MILFORD, N.J. — She came from Guatemala and landed a job as a live-in housekeeper here. Her workday started at 5:30 a.m. and ended at midnight, seven days a week. She cooked, cleaned, watched children,...
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Bush spying OK by McCain
June 14, 2008Sen. John McCain has long posed as a critic of President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping of phone calls and e-mails of millions of law-abiding citizens. As recently as last November he proclaimed that “private companies that provide...
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