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Burmese Dissident Resumes Campaign
BY THOMAS FULLER, New York Times
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi leads Myanmar’s democracy movement into an election to fill vacancies in the Parliament. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi political party has not been allowed to participate in elections in two decades and the Nobel Peace Prize winner had been on house arrest as a political prisoner for most of that time.
Staff Sergeant Bales Charged with Murder
BY JULIE DAHLGARD — On Friday, March 23, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales was charged with 17 counts of murder. The former stockbroker was inspired to join the military after the attacks of September 11, 2001. On March 11, Bales allegedly left his Kandahar province outpost and murdered 17 Afghan citizens, including women and children. Washington Post Bales is […]
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Nixon in China – Forty Years Later
BY JULIE DAHLGARD — Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon arrived in China. Foreign correspondent, John F. Burns, remembers the moment Nixon alighted in Peking, now Beijing. “Plain as could be, inscribed on a large posterboard at the rim of the airport apron that overlooked the cockpit of Air Force One, picked up by the […]
