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17.11.03

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sacbee.com -- 24-Hour News: Top Stories -- Arnold Schwarzenegger takes office in California
sacbee.com -- 24-Hour News: Top Stories -- French U.N. worker shot dead in Afghanistan
sacbee.com -- 24-Hour News: Top Stories -- Jury returns $11.9 billion judgment against Exxon Mobil
14 States File Suit in Attempt to Block New E.P.A. Rules
Limbaugh Returns to Talk Radio, and Topic No. 1 Is Himself
Medicare Plan Covering Drugs Backed by AARP: "AARP, the largest and most influential organization of older Americans, threw its weight behind a bill on Monday that offers drug benefits to the elderly as part of the biggest transformation of Medicare in its 38-year history."
China Set to Act on Fuel Economy; Tougher Standards Than in U.S.
TalkLeft: States Begin to Focus on Rehabilitation Over Punishment: "Maryland's Republican Governor, Robert L. Erlich, Jr. is putting into action his long-held vision of putting rehabilitation over punishment."
Treasury Likely Won�t Revive 30 - Year Bond
Greenspan: Odds favor job growth, worries about deficit - Nov. 6, 2003: "Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan expressed cautious optimism Thursday about the short-term prospects for the U.S. economy, but said the Fed could 'be more patient' than usual about raising rates and warned of the perils of high budget deficits. "
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Protests begin but majority backs Bush visit as support for war surges: "A majority of Labour voters welcome President George Bush's state visit to Britain which starts today, according to November's Guardian/ICM opinion poll."
Pravda.RU Finnish PM: Russia-EU trade to double after EU enlargement: "Trade between Russia and the European Union will grow by 50 percent as a result of the EU's enlargement, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said. "
Pravda.RU Israel reserves the right to deliver strikes on Syria: "Israel reserves the right to deliver strikes on Syria's territory if terrorist activity from there persists, Ambassador of Israel to Russia Arcadi Mil-Man stated at the press conference in Moscow on Monday.

'Israel reserves the right to take measures for ensuring its citizens' security, the Ambassador said, answering RIA Novosti's question.

According to him, a number of terrorist organisations whose activity is directed against Israel currently operate on Syria's territory. "
Pravda.RU Canada to assist in wargases destruction in Russia: "On November 19 British and Canadian ambassadors will sign in Moscow a memorandum of mutual understanding. It intends assisting Russia in the destruction of its chemical arms stockpiles in its territory, reads the communique, which has come to hand at RIA Novosti from the Canadian embassy to the Russian Federation. "
An Occupied Country | Howard Zinn | October 2003 Issue: "It has become clear, very quickly, that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. We became familiar with the term 'occupied country' during World War II. We talked of German-occupied France, German-occupied Europe. And after the war we spoke of Soviet-occupied Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe. It was the Nazis, the Soviets, who occupied other countries.

Now we are the occupiers."
AlterNet: Economics For Real People: "The economy soared from July to September, growing by 7.2 percent. The stock market is up. Profits are up. Stock options and CEO salaries are up. The president says his tax cuts are working and we're on the right track.

But whose economy is he celebrating?"
Al Qaeda Affiliate Training Indonesians On Philippine Island (washingtonpost.com)
IHT: In Europe, an angry told-you-so awaits Bush:
"'Even the most ideological of figures in the Bush administration are beginning to realize that no power is unlimited,' Thierry de Montbrial
IHT: To lead, U.S. must give up paranoid policies: "Paradoxically, American power worldwide is at its historic zenith while its global political standing is at its nadir. Why?"
Iran: Fresh Blood in the Theocracy: "In the nuclear poker game with the West, a third faction is exerting its influence in the power struggle between the right and the reformers: the pragmatic conservatives."
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Jakarta finds 'terror target list': "Indonesian police have reportedly found a list of terrorist targets in a room rented by a fugitive bombing suspect."
Newsday.com - Colombian Paramilitaries Begin to Disarm: "A faction of Colombia's right-wing paramilitary army has agreed to demobilize, the first of the outlawed militia groups to do so, authorities said Friday. "
Israeli Ex-Security Chiefs Warn of Catastrophe (washingtonpost.com): "Four former Israeli security chiefs sharply criticized Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's policies toward the Palestinians on Friday, warning in unusually bold terms that Israel is headed for catastrophe if it does not reach a peace deal soon."
Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source: "Any hope that the report produced by an independent panel headed by for Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari on the August 19 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad would lead to some rethinking of the way that the UN secretariat in New York operates is now a thing of the past. "
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Severe fighting in western Sudan: "The international community should pay more attention to continued clashes in western Sudan, the head of the United Nations refugee agency has said. "

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