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Jesse Helms: Stubborn on the Right
There's a special place in the United States Senate for the skunk, the single-minded dissident who refuses to go along with the gang and instead uses stubbornness, tenure and the chamber's arcane rules to advance himself and his causes. In the modern Senate, no one played that role as effectively as Jesse Helms, who died early Friday in Raleigh, N.C., at 86. For 30 years, Helms took controversial, sometimes outrageous positions on race, foreign relations and the culture wars, courting controversy and infuriating rivals but often outmaneuvering his centrist and liberal rivals. In the process, he also rewrote the way Americans elect their Senators by transforming his notoriety into mountains of campaign cash and a narrow but motivated grassroots majority in his home state.
Nations:U.S. North Korea People:Rush Limbaugh Richard Nixon John Edwards Henry Kissinger Activities:Vietnam War
2008-07-05
Pentagon extends tour of Marines in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time.
Nations:Pakistan Afghanistan People:Robert Gates Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(AP)
2008-07-04
White House says ruling could free detainees in US
WASHINGTON - The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month's Supreme Court ruling about detainees' legal rights. Federal appeals courts, however, have indicated they have no intention of letting that happen.
Activities:Bush Admin. CIA Prison Scandal Source:(AP)
2008-07-04
Iraq says near agreement with US on military pact
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq said on Wednesday it was on the verge of agreeing a controversial pact with the United States to govern US troop levels and ground rules in the nation beyond 2008 when a UN mandate expires.
Nations:Saudi Arabia People:George W. Bush Activities:Second Gulf War Source:(AFP)
2008-07-02
Bush says US to send more troops to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised Wednesday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year's end. He conceded that June was a "tough month" in the nearly seven-year-old war.
Nations:North Korea Pakistan Russia Germany Canada Afghanistan Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(AP)
2008-07-02
| Headlines |
- Jesse Helms: Stubborn on the Right 2008-07-05
- Pentagon extends tour of Marines in Afghanistan 2008-07-04
- White House says ruling could free detainees in US 2008-07-04
- Iraq says near agreement with US on military pact 2008-07-02
- Bush says US to send more troops to Afghanistan 2008-07-02
- NATO forces should drop Afghan "caveats": commander 2008-07-02
- Canadian abortion crusader says he deserves award 2008-07-02
- Coalition: 33 militants killed in Afghanistan 2008-07-01
- Iraqi foreign minister urges deal with US 2008-07-01
- Hezbollah said to train Shiite militiamen in Iraq 2008-07-01
- U.S. forces to hand over hard-won Anbar Province 2008-07-01
- US, NATO deaths in Afghanistan pass Iraq toll 2008-06-30
 WTC rebuilding faces delays, report to show: source 2008-06-30- Infighting slows plans for US special forces in Pakistan 2008-06-30
- Bush signs Iraq and Afghanistan war-funding 2008-06-30
- Black Americans on long road to political equality 2008-06-30
- Iraq throws open door to foreign oil firms 2008-06-30
- Abu Ghraib inmates sue contractors, claim torture 2008-06-30
- Obama: I will never question others' patriotism 2008-06-30
- Some on left target McCain's war record 2008-06-30
- Iraqi notice on oil does not include contracts 2008-06-30
- Army study: Iraq occupation was understaffed 2008-06-29
- Pakistani forces take control of area in Khyber 2008-06-29
- Sen. Kerry facing first Democratic foe in decades 2008-06-29
- Pakistan presses on with offensive vs. militants 2008-06-29
- Truck bomb kills 7 people north of Baghdad 2008-06-29
- U.S. faces Iraqi anger over raid near Kerbala 2008-06-29
- McCain meets with evangelist Billy Graham and son 2008-06-29
- UN official: Afghan civilian deaths up 60 percent 2008-06-29
- Pakistan launches strike at Taliban hideouts 2008-06-28
- Kidnapped Danish, Swedish aid workers freed in Somalia 2008-06-28
- Iraq police find 7 bodies, suspected al Qaeda jail 2008-06-28
- Officials: 30,000 troops heading to Iraq in 2009 2008-06-27
- 'Hanoi Hilton' jailer says he'd vote for McCain 2008-06-27
- Foreigners threaten Afghan snow leopards 2008-06-27
- Iraqi officials outraged by U.S. raid in PM's hometown 2008-06-27
- Ex-Army scientist to get $5.8M in anthrax lawsuit 2008-06-27
- Four U.S. coalition soldiers dead in Afghan attacks 2008-06-27
- US delays Anbar handover due to weather 2008-06-27
- Car bomb in northern Iraq kills 18, wounds 60 2008-06-26
- Cheney aide denies writing interrogation memos 2008-06-26
- Army speeds high-tech arms to infantry 2008-06-26
- Bombs kill 40 in Iraq, Anbar handover still on 2008-06-26
- U.S. hopes for Pakistani crackdown on militants 2008-06-26
- Kansas senators, base commander oppose moving Gitmo detainees to Leavenworth 2008-06-26
- 3 Americans killed, Shiite fighting in south 2008-06-25
- McCain says only World War III would justify draft 2008-06-25
- Afghan intelligence accuses Pakistan spy agency of Karzai attack 2008-06-25
- Explosion in Baghdad's Sadr City district kills 10 2008-06-24
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