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Today's lead stories:
The Violence at Anbar Province
Safety and Supply Concerns in Iraq’s Hospitals
Groups Push for Varying Proposals for Bush Administration
Position in Iran
Congress Agrees to Finalize Tax Cuts
Confusion Persists Over Medicare Part D Prescription Drug
Plan
The Controversy at Gallaudet University
FSRN Headlines
FIRST DAY OF COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE ABUSES IN NEPAL
Two weeks after Nepal's king gave up some power in the face
of countrywide protests, a high-level government commission
today began looking into a wide variety of abuses that took
place during the past year. From Kathmandu, Carey Biron has
more.
MAPUCHE PRISONERS STILL ON HUNGER STRIKE
In Chile, four Mapuche Indians convicted of setting fire to
disputed land are in a very delicate state of health, as they
enter the 60th day of a hunger strike. From Santiago FSRN's
Jorge Garretón has the story.
HUMALA'S VISA REVOKED
The United States has revoked the 10-year visa of Peru's leftist
presidential candidate. Diletta Varlese reports.
MOVING THE INTERNALLY DISPLACED IN UGANDA
The Ugandan Army says it has so far resettled about one hundred
thousand formerly displaced persons from 50 camps in the war
ravaged Northern part of the country. Emmanuel Okella reports
from Kampala.
ANTI-PROSTITUTION PLEDGE OVERTURNED
In New York Federal District Court yesterday, the U.S. government
was found guilty of violating freedom of speech rights by
demanding HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness groups to sign
on to an anti-prostitution pledge. In New York, Rebecca Myles
has more.
SLAVERY REMEMBRANCE DAY OBSERVED IN FRANCE
France today commemorates Slavery Remembrance Day. The new
national holiday comes 5 years to the day after the French
government passed a law to recognize slavery as a crime against
humanity.
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The Violence at Anbar Province (2:44)
Yesteday was another bloody day in Iraq. A car bomb in Tel
Afar killed 17 people and injured 70, and another car bomb
in Bakuba killed 11. As the occupation continues, the Iraqi
province of Anbar remains one of the most hostile. Free Speech
Radio News correspondent David Enders reports.
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Safety and Supply Concerns in Iraq’s Hospitals
(1:52)
About 3,500 US Army soldiers have been ordered to stay in
Germany while the US considers its security conditions in
Iraq. The soldiers were scheduled to leave early this month
and begin operation in June or July. Officials have warned,
however, that the troop’s deployment has not been canceled,
and that they will be sent to Iraq at a later time. As security
issues plague the country, doctors and pharmacists appear
to have been the victims of a series of kidnaping and killings
throughout Iraq. In Baghdad, the owner of a pharmacy was killed
along with his assistant. And in the northern city of Kirkuk,
attackers killed 3 Iraqi policemen and injured 7 others in
an attempt to free and insurgent from the city’s main
hospital. FSRN’s Salam Talib interviewed Dr. Ali Faleh,
a physician in Kirkuk, about the situation at the Kirkuk Hospital.
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Groups Push for Varying Proposals for Bush Administration
Position in Iran (3:50)
The European-3: France, Germany and Britain, are working
on a new nuclear proposal for Iran, after talks at the UN
Security Council have slowed. Meanwhile, groups are sending
proposals to the Bush Administration suggesting what action
to take next, ranging from diplomacy to regime change. Washington
Editor Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.
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Congress Agrees to Finalize Tax Cuts (2:00)
Republican leadership in the House and Senate agreed last
night to finalize reconciliation of tax bills previously passed
by both chambers of Congress. Among other provisions, the
legislation would extend tax cuts pushed by the Bush Administration
for another 4 years. FSRN’s Darby Hickey has more from
Capitol Hill.
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Confusion Persists Over Medicare Part D Prescription
Drug Plan (4:08)
Seniors and disabled US Americans have until Monday to sign
up for the new Medicare Part D prescription drug plan. Millions
of people have yet to join, and many aren’t aware that
they face life-long financial penalties if they don’t
so. President Bush and the Secretary of Health and Human Services
have spent the past 3 days in Florida, the state with the
highest population of retirees in the country, defending what
many health care advocates have called a disastrous enrollment
period, in a last minute attempt to get enrollment numbers
somewhere close to initial estimates. From WMNF in Tampa,
Andrew Stelzer reports.
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The Controversy at Gallaudet University (4:08)
Gallaudet University, the world's only university in which
all programs are specifically designed to accommodate deaf
and hard of hearing students, is embroiled in controversy.
The appointment of Dr. Jane Fernandes, who served as Provost
for 6 years, as President, has spurred round the clock protests
from students, faculty, and staff. On Tuesday, Interim Head
of the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees Celia May Baldwin,
resigned from Gallaudet's Board because of what she calls
the stress of an emotional presidential search process that
has sparked angry protests and threats. FSRN’s Selina
Musuta reports on the controversy from Gallaudet University
where students have spent the last week camping out on the
front lawn of the Northeast DC campus.
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