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Saturday, March 20, 2004
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[Washington Post: Editorial]
"Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction and wasn't connected to the September 11 tragedy. George Bush lied, and my son died," said a tearful Fernando Suarez at an unofficial memorial for the fallen soldiers outside Dover Air Force Base, where the bodies of U.S. soldiers are brought home and which is off limits to scrutiny by the media.
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Senior Clinton officials say they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda was the worst security threat facing the nation. By Philip Shenon. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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[Washington Post: Nation and Politics]
The joint Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency guidance also told women of childbearing age to avoid shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish because of high mercury levels.
The recommendation regarding tuna was immediately attacked as inadequate by a member of the FDA advisory panel that addressed it. University of Arizona toxicology professor Vas Aposhian resigned from the panel, saying the advisory did not reflect the experts' view that children and childbearing women should not eat albacore tuna, and should eat less light tuna than the advisory recommends.
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US election: Noam Chomsky, the political theorist and leftwing guru, gives his reluctant endorsement to the Democratic presidential contender, John Kerry, calling him "Bush-lite". [Guardian Unlimited]
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[AP Politics]By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. - Federal attorneys said Friday that they do not believe North Carolina's new legislative districts harm minority voters, a decision that keeps the state's July 20 primary on track.
The Justice Department (news - web sites), writing to a three-judge federal panel in Washington, said it will not challenge the state's latest House and Senate maps and has no problem if the judges declare them lawful.
The federal government's agreement that the maps conform to the U.S. Voting Rights Act is a victory for the largely Democratic leaders in the General Assembly who drew the districts that were approved in November.
Two earlier sets of maps were struck down by state courts for violating the North Carolina constitution.
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[AP Politics]
Korsmo did not make any mention in the letter of the controversy surrounding his fund-raising activities. Published reports have said that Korsmo and his wife, former Labor Department (news - web sites) official Michelle Larson Korsmo, are the targets of a Justice Department (news - web sites) investigation into a possible coverup of alleged campaign finance violations.
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