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Obama sticks to his goal of swift Iraq withdrawal
Special to The TimesAs Sen. Barack Obama headed to Iraq for his first visit as a presidential candidate, his plan for bringing the war to a swift conclusion was triggering a political furor abroad and at home, with a U.S. military leader declaring Sunday that setting a...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Political Candidates, Murder, The White House, National Government
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This is the Jesse Helms you should remember
With the passing of Sen. Jesse Helms, the media have demonstrated one final time that they never fully understood the power or impact of this great man. Consider, for example, The Washington Post's obituary of Helms. Here are some things you would not...Tags: The White House, Ronald Reagan, National Government, United Nations, International Law
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Grey matters: Age as a factor in the election
In this most unusual presidential campaign, like it or not, voters have had to deal with the issues of race and gender. Now comes the issue of age. Sen. John McCain, if elected at age 72, would become the oldest person (and the first known cancer...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Charles de Gaulle, Political Candidates, National Government, Ronald Reagan
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The risk of Silly Putty policies
'Americans are a moral people. They will not sustain a foreign policy rooted in a cold pragmatism that averts its gaze from the tragedy of a little country to maintain cordial relations with its oppressor. Churchill said long ago: The belief that security...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Woodrow Wilson, Saddam Hussein, Puerto Rico
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'Refusenik': Resilient spirits survived the Soviet Union
Tribune criticLaura Bialis' powerful, stirring and comprehensive documentary "Refusenik" charts the long battle of Soviet Jews to win the right to leave their oppressive country. In telling the story, culled from more than 100 interviews with activists, emigres,...Tags: Movies, Religious Conflicts, Demonstration, Civil Unrest
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An Inspiring Lesson In The Power Of People
Courant Staff WriterBloody revolutions happened all over the world in the last half of the 20th century. At the same time, Estonians, with almost nobody else in the world paying attention, raised the hackles of the Kremlin by gathering in enormous groups, waving flags and...Tags: Trinity College, Connecticut, Music, Adolf Hitler, Festive Event
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JONAH GOLDBERG: The risk of Silly Putty politics
Tribune Media ServicesAmericans are a moral people. They will not sustain a foreign policy rooted in a cold pragmatism that averts its gaze from the tragedy of a little country to maintain cordial relations with its oppressor. Churchill said long ago: The belief that...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Woodrow Wilson, Saddam Hussein, Puerto Rico
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More 'near-nuclear' states might arise
The Associated PressIt may have rattled windows and raised dust, but the blast that toppled a towering symbol of North Korea's atom-bomb project was a mere blip on a world map where more and more states may "go nuclear" — or nearly so — in the years to come....Tags: Political Candidates, Saddam Hussein, Nuclear Weapons, Weaponry, Defense
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Deaths last week
Chingiz Aitmatov, 79, communist writer who later became a diplomat, friend and adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev; June 10, in Nuremberg, Germany, of pneumonia. Franklin Otis Booth Jr., 84, member of the founding family of the Los Angeles Times; June 15, in...Tags: Political Candidates, Gene Kelly, Diseases, Baseball, Defense
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Deaths elsewhere
George E. Moore, 88 Cancer researcher Dr. George E. Moore, a versatile cancer researcher who found an early association between chewing tobacco and mouth cancer while directing the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, a state-financed research center in...Tags: Death and Dying, Wars and Interventions, Armed Forces, Diseases, University of Minnesota
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