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Jesse Jackson and other black leaders are organizing a national protest for this Friday. June 19, known as JUNETEENTH, is the anniversary of the day in 1865 when black Texans learned that Lincoln had freed the slaves, and is widely observed as a milestone of freedom. But this year's Juneteenth will be a "day of absence." To mark the continuing burden of racism in America, many blacks will stay home, boycott white-owned businesses and avoid conversation with whites...
...chairs a House agriculture subcommittee, is looking into why the Agriculture Department's program, designed to help foreign nations purchase American farm goods, approved most of the loan guarantees. "These loans not only permitted Iraq to feed its people," complains another House Democrat, Henry Gonzalez of Texas, "they freed up scarce foreign exchange that was used by Iraq to build up its military arsenal...
...Find It All electronics store. The police waited from the safety of Thrifty before finally moving to try to capture the last few stragglers at the Find It All store. The police grabbed several looters and clubbed one man repeatedly. Then, as the rioters shouted their defiance, the police freed everyone they were holding...
Beishenov may soon get his wish. Since the Soviet Union collapsed five months ago, more dramatic changes have been taking place in Central Asia than the sheepherder could ever imagine. Freed from control by Moscow, a vast stretch of the Eurasian continent populated by more than 50 million predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking peoples has unfolded to the outside world. The former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan never agitated for the breakup of the union and even served as a passive but powerful prop for the communist regime. Once centralized Soviet control began to split apart, however...
Such a consumption tax would allow few deductions for individuals or companies: none, for example, for mortgage interest or business lunches. But it would end the double taxation of dividends and savings that takes place under current law, and it would enhance exports, which would be freed of U.S. taxes now incorporated into their price when sold abroad...