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Israeli Communist leader Meir Vilner dies at 84

July 1, 2003

Meir Vilner, veteran leader of the Communist Party of Israel and the last living signatory of Israel’s Independence Charter, died June 5 in Tel-Aviv at 84. Vilner was born in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in...

U.S. wars and the Puerto Rican people

July 1, 2003

Opinion The United States took over Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898 and ruled it the same way other European powers ruled their colonies for many years – as a source of raw materials and a...

Anit-immigrant wall endangers nature, too

July 1, 2003

TUCSON, Ariz. – “The Sonoran Desert is a place of stunning beauty and provides essential habitat for a surprising number of plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth,” said Scotty Johnson, a representative of...

International notes

July 1, 2003

Canada: Women & unions win landmark settlement Some 100,000 women, in mostly female public sector workplaces across Ontario will get up to $414 million in pay equity funding from the provincial government under settlement of an...

Mideast ‘free trade’ accord signed

July 1, 2003

Hidden away in Shuneh, a tiny winter resort, 1,300 feet below sea level, with summer heat of at least 110 degrees, on the Jordanian Dead Sea shore – far from any anti-globalization crowds – about 1,200...