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UN agency retreats on plan for Haitian police

March 17, 2006

The United Nations mission in Haiti has decided to postpone a tentative agreement that would have placed the Haitian National Police under direct UN control. The move, announced on March 10, came in the wake of...

Israel storms Jericho jail

March 17, 2006

Israeli troops using tanks, helicopters and bulldozers pounded a Palestinian-run prison in the West Bank town of Jericho March 14 to seize Ahmed Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and five...

NATIONALCLIPS

March 17, 2006

GARY, Ind.: Black leaders urge economic empowerment With Katrina exposing America’s dirty secret of the life-and-death meaning of poverty and African American households worth one-tenth of white households, hundreds of Black leaders revived the historic 1972...

NEWSINBRIEF

March 17, 2006

U.S. edging toward dictatorship Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor charged that the attacks on the judiciary by Republican ultra-rightists are inching the country toward dictatorship. O’Connor addressed corporate lawyers at Georgetown University on March...

Privitization is the key issue in Cook County race

March 16, 2006

CHICAGO — The race for president of the Cook County Board has been thrown into uncertainty because of a stroke suffered by incumbent President John Stroger on March 14. It is not known how serious Stroger’s...