Five workers atop a 100-foot oil tower were engulfed in flames at the Tosco refinery in Martinez in the San Francisco Bay Area on February 23. One worker was killed outright, three died after days of acute agony and another is in
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Last September, Anthony Porter was scheduled to die. He had been on death row since 1983, and his time had come. Today he is free. His case is another in a growing list that demonstrates how the death penalty in the US comes down
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US politics must seem quite odd to people in other countries. The Democratic president of the United States is put on trial in the Senate by the Republicans for trying to cover up his affair with a young White House intern. In
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Ballots for the government-run elections for president of the Teamsters union were mailed out in early November to the union's 1.4 million members. The two major candidates are millionaire lawyer James Hoffa, Jr, and Tom Leedham,
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'Pro-lifers' murder againDr Barnett Slepian was shot and killed by a sniper using a high-powered rifle on the evening of October 23, as he stood in his kitchen with his wife and one of their sons. Dr Slepian provided abortion
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World economic crisis begins to hit USThe stock market was sent reeling by the news that Long Term Capital (LTC), a highly speculative investment firm, was bankrupt and had to be bailed out by a group of banks as a result
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Clinton: 'high crimes and misdemeanours'The release of independent council Kenneth Starr's report outlining 11 charges against US President Bill Clinton, which Starr says "may" represent impeachable offenses, has set off a
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NY cops 'came ready for war'In a flagrant denial of freedom of speech and assembly, New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani unleashed his racist police force to harass, then brutally attack, a rally of African Americans in Harlem
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The "special period" that opened in 1989 as the Soviet bloc collapsed has been a major challenge to the Cuban Revolution. Before the 1959 overthrow of the Batista dictatorship, the United States was Cuba's main trading partner.
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Democracy in CubaIn early August, my companion Caroline Lund and I visited Cuba as part of the Eighth US-Cuba Friendshipment, organised by Pastors for Peace. As with all Friendshipments, this one openly defied Washington's
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As the 190,000 idled General Motors workers were returning to work following the end of the strikes at two plants in Flint, Michigan, management announced that GM would sell off its parts subsidiary, Delphi. This move ups the ante
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In a letter to managers, top General Motors executives have ordered all operations except those related to the company's new full-size pick-up truck halted, and all "non-essential" workers laid off, reports the Wall Street