Peace
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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Torture was routine, soldiers, Iraqis charge
May 14, 2004Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia charged nearly two months ago that U.S. intelligence operatives directed torture of Iraqi prisoners.
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An inside look at a den of thieves
May 7, 2004WASHINGTON – “Plan of Attack,” Bob Woodward’s book on the Bush administration’s drive toward war on Iraq, is stirring renewed charges that George W. Bush engaged in deceit and lies to drag the nation into war....
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