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News: Miscellaneous
Pentagon spurned plan to initiate "gay bomb"
Submitted by: Scott / 16 Jan 2005 Publisher: Yahoo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military rejected a 1994 proposal to develop an "aphrodisiac" to spur homosexual activity among enemy troops but is hard at work on other less-than-lethal weapons, defense officials said on Sunday.
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News: Peace
Pensacola Veterans Group Stages Protest Against War in Iraq
Submitted by: VFP / 16 Jan 2005 Publisher: Pensacola News Journal
Activists throughout the nation are filling the days with protests as Thursday's presidential inauguration approaches. The same holds true in Pensacola, where more than 50 people gathered at noon Saturday at Garden and Palafox streets in a nonpartisan, anti-war rally organized by Pensacola Veterans for Peace.
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News: Miscellaneous
Ex-Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm Dead at 80
Submitted by: mj / 03 Jan 2005 Publisher: Common Dreams
MIAMI - Shirley Chisholm, an advocate for minority rights who became the first black woman elected to Congress and later the first black person to seek a major party's nomination for the U.S. presidency, has died. The Rev. Jesse Jackson called her a "woman of great courage."
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News: Civil & Human Rights
Plan to Keep Detainees in Jail for Life Criticized by Senators
Submitted by: Scott / 03 Jan 2005 Publisher: Yahoo
WASHINGTON � The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sunday dismissed as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. government plan to keep some suspected terrorists in custody for their lifetime, even if there was not enough evidence to bring them before a judge.
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News: Civil & Human Rights
At Guantanamo, a Prison Within a Prison
Submitted by: vfp / 17 Dec 2004 Publisher: Yahoo
Within the heavily guarded perimeters of the Defense Department's much-discussed Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, the CIA (news - web sites) has maintained a detention facility for valuable al Qaeda captives that has never been mentioned in public, according to military officials and several current and former intelligence officers.
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News: Peace
Another Iraq Casualty: Nearly 900 U.S. Kids Lost a Parent in War
Submitted by: VFP / 17 Dec 2004 Publisher: Yahoo
NEW YORK The escalating toll of American dead in Iraq is causing another tragedy that cuts deeper. After studying casualty reports and obituaries and accounts in hometown newspapers, and also conducting family interviews, Scripps Howard News Service has identified nearly 900 U.S. children who have lost a parent in the war.
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News: Miscellaneous
"We Have Lost a Good Friend": Supporters Gather to Remember Willie Junior
Submitted by: Scott Satterwhite / 13 Dec 2004 Publisher: PNJ
The rainbow of faces at an early Sunday evening candlelight vigil were a fitting tribute to the late Willie Junior, who many say had a heart for all regardless of race. The badly decomposed body of Escambia County's first black commissioner was found Thursday in a crawl space under a home at the corner of East Strong Street and North 11th Avenue. That's where roughly 200 supporters gathered to pay tribute to him and to offer prayer for his family.
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News: Civil & Human Rights
ACLU Seeking FBI Files on Activist Probes
Submitted by: IMC / 02 Dec 2004 Publisher: Common Dreams
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking information from the FBI on why bureau task forces set up to combat terrorism also looked into anti-war, animal rights and environmental groups.
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