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Today's lead stories:
Uruguay goes Left in National Elections
Conflict goes on without Yasser Arafat
Next President will Impact Supreme Court
Nevada: Swing State where Latino Vote is Being Courted
Californians to Vote on Prop 71 for Stem Cell Research $$
Will Massive Grassroots Get-Out-The-Vote Campaigns Imapct
Election?
FSRN Headlines
Iraq Update
Voter registration for the January elections began in Iraq,
today. Also today, gunmen assassinated Baghdad’s deputy
governor as he was in a car on the way to work.
About 65-hundred U.S. soldiers will remain in Iraq more than
two months longer even after they have served their term.
U.S. Army officials say they need to keep experienced soldiers
in the field through the Iraqi elections in January.
U.S. forces are continuing to amass around Fallujah. U.S.
installed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi must formally ask for
the attack. Yesterday he warned that his “patience with
negotiations is thinning.” Following a report from the
British Lancet claiming an estimated 100-thousand Iraqi civilians
have been killed since the U.S. occupation, the Iraqi Ministry
of Health has ordered all morgues to stop giving statistics.
But the head of the main morgue in Baghdad says it is easy
to underestimate the number of civilians killed. TAPE 0:30
Iraqi Reconstruction Money Fraud
U.S. investigators are looking into approximately 100 cases
of possible fraud with billions of dollars that is supposed
to go to Iraqi reconstruction. Victoria Jones has more.
Hunger Report Delayed by Feds
The Bush administration is slow to release the report on hunger
in the United States prepared by the USDA. Darby Hickey reports
from D.C.
Liberian Violence Stalls Refugees' Return
Violent clashes in Liberia are making it hard for refuges
to return home. Rupert Cook explains from neighboring Ghana.
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Uruguay goes Left in National Elections
On the eve of the US elections, the South American nation
of Uruguay has voted overwhelmingly for a leftist government.
Socialist Tabare Vazquez scored an historic victory in Uruguay's
presidential voting, breaking the stranglehold the Colorado
and National parties have held over the presidency since Uruguay's
independence from Spain in 1825. FSRN Host Deepa Fernandes
spoke today with Augustin Fernandes, a representative of Amnesty
International and journalist with Indymedia based in Montevideo.
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Conflict goes on without Yasser Arafat
Over the weekend, French doctors who have been conducting
a battery of medical tests on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
ruled out leukemia or any other life-threatening illness,
saying Arafat's condition was curable. He is believed to be
suffering from a serious blood disorder. Meanwhile Palestinians
are moving on with life in the absence of their leader. And
as our correspondent Awad Duabes reports from Ramallah, a
suicide attack that took place in Tel Aviv has served as a
reminder for both Palestinians and Israelis that they are
still living a bloody conflict.
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Next President will Impact Supreme Court
U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who is undergoing
radiation and chemotherapy for thyroid cancer, was unable
to return to work today at the Supreme Court. His illness
has furthered the debate in which many Supreme Court watchers
have predicted that the next president could potentially fill
2 to 3 vacancies on the Court during the course of the next
administration. Depending on the president, the political
sway of the land’s highest court could change dramatically.
FSRN Host Deepa Fernandes spoke today with Pacifica’s
Senior National Political Affairs correspondent Larry Bensky.
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Nevada: Swing State where Latino Vote is Being Courted
The Latino vote in the Southwest is one of the fastest growing
voter constituencies. And in Nevada, a swing state, the Latino
vote could impact the outcome of the election. In the final
days before the election, the Presidential campaigns have
been busy in this state. Former President Bill Clinton spent
the weekend hosting events and Vice President Cheney held
a rally today. FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell looks at what the
Latino Community in Nevada is saying about the election and
the issues important to them.
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Californians to Vote on Prop 71 for Stem Cell Research
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Research on embryonic stem cells has become a controversy
in this year's presidential campaign. Scientists hope embryonic
stem cells will yield treatments for diseases and injuries
that can only be healed if cells can be regenerated. However
people who say human life begins at conception see the research
as the killing of some humans to save others. Federal funding
for this research is severely limited. California's Proposition
71 would make some state funding available, but some people
see it as a financial giveaway to the biotech industry that
may cause more harm than good. Kellia Ramares has more from
Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley.
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Will Massive Grassroots Get-Out-The-Vote Campaigns
Imapct Election?
With the country almost equally divided into pro-Bush and
pro-Kerry camps, the Democrats and the Republicans are feverishly
rallying to ensure their candidates victory. But the day before
such a tightly contested presidential race, grassroots get-
out- the- vote efforts may prove to be the bellwether for
the 2004 election. Adam Kampe reports.
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