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Today's lead stories:
Bush Brokering Peace in Mid East?
Senate Looks at FCC Ruling
Birth Defects for Gulf War Vets’ Kids
Massive French Strikes Continue
DOJ: 9-11 Detentions Violate Civil Rights
Hip Hop Theater Festival
Bush Brokering Peace in Mid East?
In the first time since he became President of the US, George
W. Bush held a joint meeting between Palestinian and Israeli
leaders. Thousands of Israeli border guards and military personnel
were deployed along the West Bank today while in the Balata
refugee camp near Nablus and in Jenin curfews were imposed.
This as talks took place at the three-way summit in the Jordanian
Red Sea port city. Oula Farawati Reports.
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Senate Looks at FCC Ruling
The Senate Commerce Committee conducted an over-site hearing
of Monday's FCC decision to greatly reduce restrictions on
media consolidation. Congress has the power to overturn these
rule changes with more than 100 members of the House and roughly
20 members of the Senate asking the FCC not to approve these
rule changes just prior to the vote. For more with the story
is Miranda Dunn in Capitol Hill.
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Birth Defects for Gulf War Vets’ Kids
A government study has found children of veterans of the
first Persian Gulf War were born with higher rates of specific
birth defects than the children of soldiers who never served.
Laura Doggett reports from DC.
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Massive French Strikes Continue
The French government is coming under growing pressure to
withdraw its controversial pension reform plan which would
require French public employees to work more years before
they qualify for retirement. More than a million public sector
workers took part in demonstrations nationwide as the strikes
affected air and rail traffic, hospitals, post offices, newspapers
and schools. But prime minister Jean Pierre Raffarin says
he’s prepared to push the reform through regardless.
Nick Champeaux reports from Paris.
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DOJ: 9-11 Detentions Violate Civil Rights
The Department of Justice released a report this week accusing
the Attorney Generals Office and the FBI of violating the
civil rights of hundreds of immigrants detained after the
September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Among the
violations documented in the 198 page report was the “pattern
of physical and verbal abuse at a federal prison where 84
prisoners mostly of Arab and South Asian descent” were
held. The report is the most thorough accounting of the governments
handling of more than 760 immigrant detainees taken into custody
after 9/11. But human and immigrant rights groups say more
needs to be done to address the concerns not contained in
the report, in particular, the level of secrecy surrounding
the identities of those detained. Jackson Allers reports from
Pacifica station WBAI in New York.
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Hip Hop Theater Festival
Last night a national festival kicked off in NY, called
the Hip Hop Theater Festival. In it’s fourth year, the
festival features work from accomplished artists such as Danny
Hoch, whose last work, Jails Hospitals and Hip Hop won worldwide
acclaim, to new and emerging artists blending Hip Hop with
stage theater. Here are some sounds from last night’s
opening in NYC featuring Danny Hoch’s latest work: Till
the Break of Dawn.
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