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International notes

July 25, 2003

Cuba: Charges of interference refuted In a July 19 statement, Cuba’s Foreign Ministry sharply rejected charges in U.S. media that Cuba is interfering in U.S. satellite transmissions to Iran. Granma said some of the allegations quote...

Liberia descends into chaos

July 25, 2003

Rebel forces broke the cease-fire in the West African nation of Liberia and began bombarding the capital city of Monrovia again this week. Fighting between rebels, many backed by neighboring Cote d’Ivoire and Guinea, and the...

BBC spotlights Israels WMDs

July 25, 2003

In a recent 50-minute television documentary entitled, “Israel’s Secret Weapons,” the British Broadcasting Corp.’s World Service points its finger at Israel’s nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction. The BBC documentary opens with four questions:...

Unthinkable Undrinkable. Stop the killing, boycott Coke

July 25, 2003

“We are doing this to save the lives of our members,” declared Colombian union leader Javier Luis Correa, launching an international boycott of Coca-Cola products July 22. Correa, president of Colombia’s National Union of Food Industry...

Dominican impoverishment deepens

July 25, 2003

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Dominicans are much poorer today than six months ago. The devastating effects of the financial crisis and the devaluation of the peso in the first half of 2003 have dramatically reduced...