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Tuesday, May 29, 2001
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Massachusetts Congressperson Joe Moakley, Dies of Leukemia at Age 74
Representative Joe Moakley, a 15 term Congressperson from Massachusetts died of Leukemia yesterday at the age of 74.During the 1980’s Representative Moakley emerged as one of the fiercest critics of US policy toward Central America.Moakley once wrote that "no other event changed has effected my life" as much as the murder of six Jesuit priests inEl Salvador in 1989. We go now to Father Roy Bourgeois, who has led the movement to close down the School of theAmericas, which trains Latin American military officers. It’s a cause which Moakley championed.
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A Leading African-American Abortion Doctor Is Sentenced to Almost 5 Years in Prison in Analleged Extortion Case
Last week in Ocala, Florida, a Florida doctor and abortion services provider, James Scott Pendergraft was sentencedto nearly four years in prison after being convicted in February of attempted extortion, conspiracy and mail fraud bythe US Government. In what reproductive rights activists are calling an unprecedented attack on an abortion providerthrough criminal justice system, local officials in Ocala collaborated with federal prosecutors to shut downPendergraft on the grounds that he conspired with a colleague to extort money from the government. AnAfrican-American reproductive services provider who owns five Florida clinics, Pendergraft had faced a maximumsentence of 30 years in jail, $750,000 in fines and the loss of his medical license.
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An Interview with the Late Great Cuban Photographer Alberto Korda, Famous for His Pictures of Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution; He Died Last Week
Cuban photographer Alberto Korda, whose 1960 shot of Che Guevara became an icon for revolutionaries around the world,died Friday in France, aged 72.
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White Supremacist Groups Spark Britain’s Worst Racial Violence in Years
Hundreds of police in riot gear patrolled the streets of Oldham, England this morning, arresting 18 whites and 3South Asians as racial unrest continued.
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Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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