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Letters: Ending a deadly drug war
Re "Cartels push drug violence to new depths," May 28 This article has only one line about drugs heading north to the U.S. Nearly all of the wealth generated by the drug trade comes from Americans, so in a real sense, we share responsibility for those...
Tags: Drug Trafficking, Restraint of Trade, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Corporate Crime, Mexico
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Pepper-spray stories revive sting of his tear-gassing
Last month, pepper spray was in the news again. On April 3, about 30 people protesting a proposed two-tier tuition system at Santa Monica College were pepper-sprayed, sending two people to the hospital. The incident came five months after a campus police...
Tags: Politics, Wars and Interventions, University of California, Berkeley, James Jones, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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On Memorial Day, Obama talks of closure for wars old and new
WASHINGTON — Most Memorial Day messages from presidents involve the sort of solemn boilerplate remarks that barely break through the barbecue smoke and picnic chatter. On Monday, President Obama took a decidedly different tack: He noted the end of...
Tags: Kathleen B. Hennessey, Republican Party, Politics, Wars and Interventions, Holidays
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PASSINGS: Richard W. Lyman, Johnny Tapia
Richard W. Lyman
Former president of Stanford University
Richard W. Lyman, 88, a former president and provost of Stanford University who clamped down on student protests during the Vietnam War era, died Sunday of congestive heart failure in Palo Alto,...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Obituaries, Featherweight Boxing, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Boxing
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Obama highlights end of Iraq war during Memorial Day commemoration
WASHINGTON-- Paying tribute to dead soldiers and their families, President Obama said Monday that the nation had reached a "milestone” of relative peace, noting the end of the Iraq war and plans to end America’s role in the Afghan war....
Tags: Kathleen B. Hennessey, NATO, Wars and Interventions, Holidays, Memorial Day
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Imprisoned ex-congressman wants gun rights restored
L.A. NOWFormer Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, nearing completion of a prison sentence for bribery and tax evasion, has asked the judge who sentenced him to restore his right to carry weapons so he can enter shooting contests and hunt bears and cougars after he... -
College transcripts replace birth certificate for Obama detractors
Now that the issue of the president’s birth certificate has been laid to rest (mostly), some conservatives are turning their attention to a new obsession: Barack Obama's college transcripts. Last week, a website that already had offered a $10,000...
Tags: Education, Politics, Donald Trump, Brigham Young University , John Kerry
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About 30 children among more than 90 killed in Houla, Syria
BEIRUT— The blood-spattered children lay on a patterned rug, their wounds graphic proof that youth offers no protection from the dark forces unleashed in Syria.
An unidentified man picks up the limp corpse of one boy, displaying the battered...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Beirut (Lebanon), Kofi Annan, News Agency, Ban Ki-moon
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Wesley Brown dies at 85; first black graduate of Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, died Tuesday in Silver Spring, Md., the Naval Academy's alumni association announced from Annapolis, Md. He was 85 and had cancer. A 1949 graduate, Brown was...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Jimmy Carter, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), College Sports, Technology
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Authors in town this week: Benjamin Busch, Erik Larson and Pico Iyer
Jacket CopyAuthor events in Southern California this week include Benjamin Busch, Erik Larson and Pico Iyer.... -
Nicholas Katzenbach dies at 90; attorney general under Johnson
WASHINGTON — Nicholas Katzenbach, the Kennedy administration lawyer who faced down Gov. George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama and who helped write the landmark civil rights and voting rights acts of the...Tags: Labor Markets, Lawyers, Regional Authority, U.S. Department of Justice, Princeton University
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Horst Faas dies at 79; Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer
As chief of photo operations for the Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. The result was...
Tags: Robert Capa, Photography, Wars and Interventions, News Agency, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
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