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Growing promise of Cuban oil deposits
March 30, 2007“Cuba could be a major regional player in oil,” Jorge Piñon, Amoco’s former Latin American head, told reporters last week. Two international conferences opening in Havana on March 20 testified to the high visibility of oil...
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Palestinian activist ends prison hunger strike
March 30, 2007WASHINGTON — Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian activist, ended his 60-day hunger strike at a federal prison hospital in North Carolina March 24, bowing to his children’s pleas that he not risk death protesting his unjust...
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Communists see a new landscape for struggles
March 30, 2007NEW YORK — Heading the agenda as members of the Communist Party’s national committee gathered here March 24-25 were new developments in the people’s movements to end the Iraq war, win labor and immigrant rights, gain...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
March 30, 2007PITTSBURGH: ‘Health care, not warfare’ “I’d rather see 1,500 more beds than 1,500 parking spaces,” said Iraq veteran Sgt. Geoffrey Millard as he stood in front of a parking garage being built at the Veterans Administration...
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Immokalee workers may launch boycott of McDs
March 30, 2007CHICAGO — Imagine waking up every morning, still dark outside, and then have to pick tomatoes for a typical 10-hour workday, seven days a week, in sweatshop conditions with armed guards watching over you. Sound back-breaking...
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