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...Guinea-Bissau Assassination Tit for Tat Joćo Bernardo Vieira, the longtime President of this volatile West African nation, was assassinated by army troops on March 2 in apparent retaliation for the killing of a general hours before. The speaker of parliament, Raimundo Pereira, was sworn in as the state's interim President and is required to call elections within 60 days. Since winning independence from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has been racked by poverty and upheaval, becoming in recent years a key transit point for cartels smuggling drugs from South America to Europe...
...Cancer Society, the American Medical Association (AMA), America's Health Insurance Plans, the Business Roundtable, Easter Seals, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Most participants declined to comment directly on the talks, saying they were sworn to secrecy by Kennedy and risked expulsion from the meetings by talking on the record - though a few were willing to speak anonymously about some of the progress that has been made. Most were eager to praise the new momentum Obama has breathed into the talks this week, including...
...habit naturally extends to politics. In the U.S., where Republicans are associated with red and the Democrats are linked with blue, politicians drift from those affiliations - Barack Obama, for instance, wore a red tie when he was sworn in as President, and outgoing President George W. Bush chose a blue tie for the occasion. But in Thailand, you literally wear your politics on your sleeve. When the protesters from the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stormed Bangkok's international airport last year, the air terminal turned bright yellow. The demonstrators chose shirts of that color because they wanted...
...first briefing to journalists since being sworn in last week, Panetta reiterated his opposition to the use of torture to extract information from terrorism suspects. He said the Army Field Manual "gives us all the capabilities we need to interrogate." He said he would not personally order any so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used during the Bush Administration. Although the President has the power to authorize such techniques, Panetta said he would not recommend them to Obama...
...hundred years to travel one mile." - on getting sworn in at the state Capitol near where his grandfather had worked as an immigrant servant, Seattle Post-Intelligencer...