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Only the rich grow richer: On 25th anniversary of Allende's ouster, 38.5% of Chileans live on less than $2 a day.(Originated from)
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By Mark Weisbrot
WASHINGTON _ On Sheridan Circle in the midst of the capital's Embassy Row, there is a small monument jutting out of the sidewalk that I pass by almost every day.
Tourists occasionally stumble upon it and are puzzled, since the story behind it is not well known. It marks the spot where two victims of terrorism were murdered, the first time that violence initiated abroad with the backing of the U.S. government actually spread back to our own territory.
On September 21, 1976, the Chilean secret police killed Orlando Letelier ...
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100, 75, 50 Years Ago From the International Herald Tribune
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; ...Audiences BUDAPEST: King Franz Joseph to-day [May 8] received Count...Royalist demonstrators chased Mme. Joseph Caillaux, wife of the senator and former...Eyck, the Dutch master. Mme. Caillaux was acquitted of the murder of...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Croker, folklorist, 1798; Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, social reformer, 1809...University for the first time, 1878; Joseph Caillaux, former French prime minister...opera composer, 1728; Francois-Joseph Talma, actor-manager, 1763...
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The Banker then.
Magazine article from: The Banker
; ...export of gold and silver. Thus the embargo was removed from January 11, 1930. France's Budgetary Surplus, by Joseph Caillaux, S[acute{e}]nateur, ancien Pr[acute{e}]sident du Conseil Restoration of the Gold Standard in Japan...
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Sunday, January 4
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...in the United States. 1908 - Mulai Hafid is proclaimed sultan of Morocco at Fez. 1918 - France's former Premier Joseph Caillaux is arrested for treason after he opposes involvement in World War I. He is later found guilty of committing damage...
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Wednesday, January 4
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...in the United States. 1908 - Mulai Hafid is proclaimed sultan of Morocco at Fez. 1918 - France's former Premier Joseph Caillaux is arrested for treason after he opposes involvement in World War I. He is later found guilty of committing "damage...
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Tuesday, Jan. 4
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...in the United States. 1908 - Mulai Hafid is proclaimed sultan of Morocco at Fez. 1918 - France's former Premier Joseph Caillaux is arrested for treason after he opposes involvement in World War I. He is later found guilty of committing "damage...
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Saturday, Jan. 4
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...in the United States. 1908 - Mulai Hafid is proclaimed sultan of Morocco at Fez. 1918 - France's former Premier Joseph Caillaux is arrested for treason after he opposes involvement in World War I. He is later found guilty of committing damage...
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A witness of momentous events.
Magazine article from: The Banker
; ...Montagu Norman by former Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Robert Horne, and a piece (in both French and English) by Joseph Caillaux, a former French prime minister and minister of finance. And during that year one JM Keynes contributed a profile...
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We've seen it all before...
Magazine article from: The Banker
; ...analysed banking developments in South America, Sir Sidney Sitwell assessed the various classes of banks in India, and Joseph Caillaux, the former prime minister and finance minister of France (who later became The Banker's regular Paris correspondent...
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Now and Then: 14 JANUARY
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...1907: Earthquake in Jamaica destroyed Kingston and killed 1,000 people. 1918: France's former prime minister Joseph Caillaux was arrested for treason. 1937: The first Gallup opinion poll took place in Britain. 1938: Walt Disney's first...
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