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  • Utility workers urge blackout probe

    Utility workers urge blackout probe

    August 29, 2003

    The FirstEnergy transmission line failure in Ohio that quite possibly triggered a massive blackout in the country’s Northeast earlier this month may have been caused by neglected maintenance stemming from the industry’s deregulation, the Utility Workers...

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  • Israeli, Palestinian groups respond to deepening crisis

    Israeli, Palestinian groups respond to deepening crisis

    August 29, 2003

    Gush Shalom, an Israeli peace group, has issued a statement charging the Israeli government is responsible for the new round of violence in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza. The group said, “The renewed cycle...

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  • International Notes

    International Notes

    August 29, 2003

    Cuba: Trade pacts signed with Alabama The State of Alabama signed three trade agreements in Havana last week. On Aug. 21, Ron Sparks, the state’s commissioner for agriculture and industry, and Pedro Alvarez, president of the...

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  • Reject Bushs attack on Medicaid

    Reject Bushs attack on Medicaid

    August 29, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

    At a June 13 New York forum titled “Ending the safety net as we know it? Assessing the new federal block grant proposals,” leaders of the Community Service Society (CSS) and the Brookings Institution tackled probably...

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  • Yale strikers draw national support

    Yale strikers draw national support

    August 29, 2003 By Art Perlo

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. – As picket lines went up at Yale University and its affiliated hospital Aug. 27, striking workers were electrified by the news that eight union retirees had occupied the university’s investment offices. Denied...

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