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WORLD NOTES
January 28, 2005Haiti: African Union seeks peaceful resolution After last week’s meeting in Pretoria with South African President Thabo Mbeki and exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, African Union Commission chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare said the AU is ready...
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Cuba trains doctors for U.S.
January 28, 2005U.S. young people are off to Cuba in mid February to study medicine at that nation’s Latin American School of Medicine (LASM). They join 8,000 other students already there. The students, from 26 countries, including eight...
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Mexico Citys govt launches programs to help poor
January 28, 2005MEXICO CITY — Venezuela President Hugo Chavez is not the only leader undertaking needed social reforms in Latin America. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the left-leaning governor of this city’s metro-area federal district and a prominent member...
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Rally defends close election
January 28, 2005AUSTIN, Texas — Supporters of Rep. Hubert Vo rallied Jan. 11 at the state Capitol here to demand that the legislature respect Vo’s 31-vote election victory over incumbent Republican Talmadge Heflin. Vo, who won the race...
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Doctor exposes racism in hospital fight
January 28, 2005LOS ANGELES – In 1965, the 265,000 people in the Watts area of South Los Angeles were served by eight small, private hospitals with 440 beds. Today the 1 million people in the area have only...
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