Monday, October 22, 2007

10-22-07--busy newsday

--Kurds ambush Turks at Iraq border—NYTA1

--Louisiana elects Indian governor (he likes the “free-market” and “intelligent design,” two names for the same idea) NYTA1, NYTA17

--Chavez pushes South American bank to replace IMF, World Bank.--NYTA3

--Anti-immigrant party becomes largest in Switzerland.--NYTA4

--US Joint Chiefs Chairman wants high levels of military spending to continue even after Iraq war—NYT A8

--Poles dis-elect their pro-USA, anti-abortion prime minister—NYT A11

--Federal court cases to test “how far the government can go in keeping Americans safe from what a State Department manual calls the “irresponsible expressions of opinion by prominent aliens.” NYTA14

--“Sept. 11 was terrible, but if one re-examines the history of the IRA, what happened in the US wasn’t so bad.”—Doris Lessing NYT B2

--With subprime lending crisis, developing countries are now lecturing the West-NYTC1

--Blackwater softens it logo from macho to corporate—NYT C3

--USA vulnerable to terrorist attacks via insects—WSJ B12

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