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...Mitterrand joined the youth branch of the French right-wing movement Croix-de-Feu (Cross of Fire) and was photographed at a 1935 demonstration featuring banners reading DEHORS LES METEQUES (or, roughly, GO HOME, FOREIGNERS...
...could stall their drive toward two-way TV. Although they lead in the race to lay fiber-optic cable, much of it was originally installed to carry a high volume of phone traffic into cities and therefore does not connect to individual homes; instead, the fiber-optic trunk lines branch into twisted pairs of copper wires, which carry far less information directly to the customer. That means the companies must either replace this so-called last mile with fiber-optic cable or find a way to compress the data through the thin copper openings...
...role in World War II. But it will not directly give any money to women from other Asian countries who were forced to serve in frontline brothels run by the Japanese Imperial Army. Groups representing these women from the Philippines and South Korea quickly blasted Japan's olive branch as inadequate...
...their re-election bids this fall. "Don't give it to them" was the message the Republican National Committee sent last week to 38 House Republicans who voted earlier this year in favor of the provision banning assault weapons. Each received a copy of a resolution that the Alaska branch of the party had put before the G.O.P.'s recent national meeting in Los Angeles. It called upon the Republican National Committee to deny campaign funds to the 38 dissenters. Though the resolution had not been voted on, it was enough for the party leadership to draw...
...exec of the nation's largest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is hearing calls for his resignation -- from once-staunch supporters. The Chicago Southside chapter is demanding that Chavis resign because he settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with NAACP money. The Southside branch, with 20,000 members, is one of the largest in the country. TIME Senior Correspondent Jack White says that this latest news adds to the pressure on the NAACP's 64-member board to fire Chavis at its meeting this Saturday. But, White adds, "getting rid of Chavis would...