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Today's lead stories:
Iraq War Justification Called in Question
Guatemalan Elections
Senegalese Deportation
Maxxam Protested
New Pacifica By-Laws To Go Forward
Free Speech Radio News Headlines
The Congressional leaders behind the campaign finance reform
law announced today that they are introducing legislation
to replace the Federal Election Commission, calling the FEC
ineffective. Jay Tamboli has more from D.C.
President Bush is threatening to veto a Congressional vote
designed to insure federal funds for international family
planning organizations like Planned Parenthood even if they
INCLUDE abortion as an option. James Cullum reports from D.C.
The American Civil Liberties Union has won a settlement from
the city of Los Angeles over alleged charges that the LAPD
mistreated people during a large scale arrest on skid row.
Patrick Burke reports from KPFK in Los Angeles.
Hundreds of Native Americans peacefully protested in a Pine
Ridge border town yesterday charging the mostly white residents
are looking to start their own police department because they
refuse the newly elected Native one. Jim Kent reports.
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Iraq War Justification Called in Question
Before a Senate Congressional Committee today, Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified that the estimated monthly
US Military cost in Iraq is 3.9 billion dollars, double what
the Bush Administration cited in April. Republican Senator
John McCain told Free Speech Radio News that another supplemental
to Iraq is expected. An earlier supplemental was $70 billion
dollars, this as the Bush administration is working to close
a growing credibility gap over the justification for war in
Iraq. Congressional republicans are resisting calls for a
full investigation - Josh Chaffin has more from Capitol Hill.
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Guatemalan Elections
Revered by his supporters as the strong, God-fearing leader
that Guatemala needs, and scorned by his detractors a genocidal
dictator, Efrain Rios Montt remains one of the most controversial
figures in Guatemalan history. And he also hopes to be the
nation’s next president. Guatemala’s highest court
is meeting today to debate whether he can run in the upcoming
elections, despite a constitutional ban on former dictators
running for president. Catherine Elton has more on this story
from Guatemala City.
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Senegalese Deportation
As President Bush continues his five day country tour of
African, his administration is facing mounting international
pressure to send troops to Liberia as part of a multinational
peacekeeping force, this as the Senegalese government is deporting
15 French nationals from their soil this week. In early march,
French authorities deported one hundred and ten Senegalese
nationals, triggering an international outcry as human rights
groups contested its ethics and international protocols. French
authorities are obliged to send a police escort to accompany
the 15 French nationals being expelled - from Senegal, Ndiaga
Seck reports.
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Maxxam Protested
Two California activists demanding corporate accountability
from Houston-based Maxxam brought their forest defense tactics
to the corporation’s home turf this week... now the
campaign against Maxxam that has lasted for over a decade
has entered a new phase. With a tree sit in a Houston city
park, a lawsuit against its subsidiary Pacific Lumber in Humboldt
County, California and possible revocation of logging permits,
Maxxam is battling pressure over its business practices on
several fronts. From KPFT in Houston, Texas, Renee Feltz has
more:
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New Pacifica By-Laws To Go Forward
More than 19 months ago the listeners and board members
of Pacifica Radio won the right to draft new by-laws for the
listener-sponsored Pacifica foundation. The new by-laws will
allow Pacifica listeners and staff to elect the network's
governing boards thus making the 54 year old Pacifica Radio
Network the first democratically governed media network in
American history. A ruling this week in a California courtroom
has now cleared the way for that dream to become a reality.
Evan Davis files this report:
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