PRESIDENTS & HEADS OF STATE
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Democracy Now! October 28, 2002
Lula Wins!: Worker s Party candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wins in a landslide to become Brazil s first working class leader; Sen. Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002: Less than two weeks before election day, the populist Democrat from Minnesota dies with seven others in a plane crash; Iraq Journal: US activists take to the streets…
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Democracy Now! October 4, 2002
U.S. Preemptive Strike & Assassination Plans from Cuba to Iraq: JFK s legal counsel Ted Sorensen debates Cuba historian Jane Franklin; Will Lula win? The barons of international finance hold their breath as Brazilians go to the polls |9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06 Headlines 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:09 Excerpt from a new documentary film called…
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Democracy Now! October 7, 2002
Lula Takes Big Lead in Brazil: Leftist candidate from the Workers Party narrowly misses 50 percent vote forcing presidential run-off; Not In Our Name: More than 20,000 gather in New York s Central Park. We hear from Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), director Mira Nair, actor Tim Robbins, hip-hop poet Saul Williams and Afghan-American Shokriea Yaghi,…
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Democracy Now! December 11, 1998
Clinton Impeachment Hearings; Texas Execution of Canadian Postponed |(14 Minutes) Clinton Impeachment Hearings The House Judiciary Committee weighed final arguents yesterday over alleged “high crimes and misdemeanors” by President Clinton. Speaker Newt Gingrich notified the full House to prepare for a historic impeachment vote next week. Several official sources said Democrats laboring to fain support…