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Today's lead stories:
Recalling all Sides in Venezuela
$87 Billion Request before Appropriations
Controversy Over Border Patrol Tactics
Prisoners Face Challenges on Release
Native American’s Decry Congressional Conversations
FSRN News Headlines by Randi Zimmerman
The U.S. justice department has opened an investigation
into the allegations that a staffer in the White House divulged
the identity of a CIA operative, after the operatives husband,
a former U-S ambassador in Africa, questioned President Bush's
war plans.
Today, thousands of students in the District of Columbia
walked out of class in protest. Ingrid Drake explains why
from D.C.
Jordan will be sending 10’s of thousands of police
to Iraq. More from Oula Al- Farawati in Amman.
The Indian government is looking to overturn the acquittal
of 21 people who were accused of burning alive 14 Muslims
in Gujurat. From India, Binu Alex reports.
The number of U.S. citizens without health insurance has
increased drastically again this year. Amanda Johnson has
the story from D.C.
The Russian government sent a major blow to environmentalists
when a senior advisor to President Vladamir Putin announced
today that the nation may not ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
The United States Congress failed to pass the tax initiatives
today needed to replenish the Superfund.
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Recalling all Sides in Venezuela
Today all political parties of Venezuela, both of the government
and of the opposition, submitted applications for recall petition
drives. The opposition wants to recall the country's leftist
president, Hugo Chavez, and pro- government parties want to
recall the opposition mayor of Caracas and other elected officials
of the opposition. Greg Wilpert has the story from Caracas.
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$87 Billion Request before Appropriations
Today the U.S. Congress further debated the 87 billion dollar
request for Iraq and Afghanistan. Democratic lawmakers unsuccessfully
tried to split the request into two bills: one for the 66
billion dollars to the military and the other for the 21 billion
dollars for reconstruction. Democrats say they are willing
to spend the money on troops in Iraq but they are not as willing
to pay for the reconstruction of the occupied country. But
as Mitch Jeserich reports, human rights groups say that even
the 21 billion dollars proposed for reconstruction falls short
of meeting the humanitarian needs of the people of Iraq and
Afghanistan.
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Controversy Over Border Patrol Tactics
The Border Patrol's controversial "Lateral Repatriation
Program" is scheduled to end today. Since the program
began September 8th, migrants detained while attempting to
cross into the United States through Arizona have been airlifted
into Texas where they then faced detention and deportation,
often numbering as many as 300 people per day. This as part
of the latest operation along the southern border since the
Department of Homeland Security absorbed immigration enforcement
duties over six months ago. From Houston, Shannon Young has
more on the story.
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Prisoners Face Challenges on Release
Continuing his Patriot Act PR nation-wide tour, Attorney
General John Ashcroft told a New Orleans audience that the
nation is safer than it was two years ago because of the increased
powers Congress has granted to police and prosecutors, and
the continued swelling of the nation's prison population.
A radically different message was offered in the nation’s
capital this past weekend where a conference on the prison
industrial complex was held. The conference was led by former
political prisoners from revolutionary organizations of the
1960's such as the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground,
and as Tom Gomez reports, the gathered testified to the Congressional
Black Caucus about the challenges prisoners face in reentering
their communities.
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Native American’s Decry Congressional Conversations
Closed door negotiations have taken place between two senior
congressional Republicans on policies being forged around
oil, gas and hydroelectric power, energy research priorities,
and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. New Mexico's
Senator Pete Domenici and Representative W. J. Tauzin of Louisiana
have been meeting to decide certain language which is being
challenged by Democrats, environmentalists and some Native
American communities. Eulynda Toledo-Benalli has more from
Albuquerque.
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