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Today's lead stories:
Rumors of Palestinian Ceasefire
Supreme Court Strikes Down Sodomy Law
UN on Reconstruction
NGOs and Africa
SEIU Merging Locals
Headlines: Produced by Randi Zimmerman.
Supreme Court Turns Down Nike Case Jay Tamboli reports.
Medicare in Congress Josh Chaffin reports.
EU on Farm Subsidies Salil Sarkar reports.
Little Bighorn Memorial Jim Kent reports.
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Rumors of Palestinian Ceasefire
Rumors are circulating about a potential Palestinian truce
agreement between the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the
Islamic Jihad, but so far no official declaration has been
made. This as the Israeli army is intensifying it’s
military operations in the West Bank and Gaza, leading to
the killing of 4 Palestinians in the last 24 hours. Awad Duaibes
reports Ramallah.
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Sodomy Law
A closely-watched High Court decision involving the right
to privacy was handed down today. The Texas sodomy law, rarely
enforced but affecting the lives of many, has been struck
down by the Supreme Court. Pokey Anderson reports from Houston,
where the case originated.
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UN on Reconstruction
The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors
today to discuss humanitarian needs in Iraq and the phasing
out of the oil-for-food program on which most Iraqi’s
depend. Today’s meeting capped several days of tightly
guarded discussions focusing on reconstruction and aid to
the war-torn country. A daylong conference on Tuesday for
the first time brought together representatives from 52 countries,
UN agencies and the US-led coalition now running Iraq. In
a victory for the Bush administration, the European Union,
whose members were bitterly divided over the war, agreed to
co-sponsor an international pledging conference in the fall.
But the Europeans insisted on keeping control of the purse-strings.
Susan Wood reports from the UN.
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NGOs and Africa
The Bush administration has been berating US NGOs for not
enthusiastically endorsing US foreign and domestic policy
over the past few days, while holding up the work of some
nonprofit corporate interest groups as the model for others
to follow. This week, almost every branch of the Bush administration
came out to the 4th biennial business summit of the corporate
council on Africa in Washington, DC. The council, a tax exempt
nonprofit organization, was created in 1993 by major corporations
like Cargill, Exxon Mobil and Coca Cola. It seeks to bring
together business leaders and government officials for enhancing
trade and investment ties between the United States and African
nations. Ingrid Drake reports from Washington, DC how groups
who don’t share the Bush agenda for the African continent
view the corporate events.
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SEIU Merging Locals
While hospital workers in Las Vegas and janitors in Boston,
organized under the Service Employee International Union,
the SEIU, have been staging labor strikes over the past weeks
and months, the spotlight is now on the SEIU’s national
policy of merging smaller locals into bigger locals, despite
the fact that they maybe hundreds of miles away, by imposing
a trusteeship. The current conflict within the SEIU Local
36 reflects this national trend, as Dante Toza reports from
Philadelphia.
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