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...Sagra, they first felt the pinch months ago. "Construction started to really slow in February or March, with the subprime crisis in the U.S.," says Duque, "and that's when the brick warehouses started to fill up." Many brick works in the area closed over summer, but things have hardly improved since then. Duque says most of the brick companies in La Sagra have suspended workers temporarily in a program that allows them to receive unemployment benefits for three months and then return to a guaranteed job. With the financial meltdown adding to Spain's troubles and the country...
...their trial earlier this month, the former Khmer Rouge fighters from the once notorious stronghold of Anlong Veng recounted how in March, 1996, they surrounded Howes and two dozen Cambodian de-miners in the village of Preah Ko near the revered Angkor temples...
...Sendero Luminoso) rebels killed 13 soldiers and two civilians, including a young boy, in the remote Huancavelica state. A soldier was killed the previous day and two others on Oct. 14. It was the deadliest attack since 10 people were killed in a bombing in Lima, the capital, in March 2002, on the eve of a visit by President Bush...
...Classmates packed all three floors of the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum for the performance: a tradition that they started at the class’s 15th reunion to help honor musician Peter S. Ivers ’68, who had been murdered in March of that year...
...York City immigrant from Trinidad, was targeted by a white mob when he ended up in the wrong part of Brooklyn. He was struck by a car and killed as he tried to flee his attackers. Subsequently, a then obscure Baptist minister named Al Sharpton led a march through Brooklyn, a march that itself nearly led to violence. A few months later, New York mayor Ed Koch wrote a New York Times op-ed explaining that his "outrage" at the incident had led him to support hate-crimes laws. "Hate crimes, if not responded to, tend to undermine the tolerance...