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Coup foiled in Venezuela
May 14, 2004Another coup attempt against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has failed. Eighty-eight Colombian paramilitaries were captured May 9 in Caracas while training for an assault on a military installation. According to Venezuela’s ambassador in Bogotá, those arrested...
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Calif. lawmaker takes dangerous stand on draft
May 14, 2004LOS ANGELES – When Rossana Cambron, a special education teacher from Whittier, Calif., saw Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) on a local Spanish-language television program April 30 speaking favorably of a military draft, she got mad. “I...
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Reservists families say: Bring our loved ones home!
May 14, 2004Elizabeth Fausto’s brother, Jose – an army reservist now serving in Iraq – recently learned that his deployment has been extended a second time, for a period of 120 days. Jose Guadalupe Fausto, a sergeant, has...
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Take action! Support Mejia objector to the Iraq War
May 14, 2004“When you look at the war, and you look at the reasons that took us to war, and you don’t find that any of the things that we were told that we’re going to war for...
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GOP trickery in overtime fight
May 14, 2004WASHINGTON (PAI) – If you can’t beat ’em, try to fool ’em. That was the latest GOP strategy when dealing with the issue of workers’ overtime pay. Despite the Senate’s 52-47 pro-overtime vote on May 4,...
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