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Nicaragua says it hunting priest fleeing child sex charges 7/13/04 Managua, Nicaragua (AP) "A Costa Rican priest fleeing sexual molestation charges apparently has entered Nicaragua and is being sought here, the National Police said Tuesday. Police spokeswoman Miriam Torres said that the Rev. Enrique Vasquez was being sought on an Interpol warrant on behalf of Costa Rican officials. Vasquez fled Costa Rica after a criminal complaint was filed by the mother of a boy he allegedly molested. He later worked in Connecticut, New York state and South Carolina, as well as in Honduras and Mexico...."We are very worried at the number of victims with whom we have spoken. There are many youths who have suffered because of the abuses committed by Father Vasquez," Bruce Harris, executive director of Casa Alianza, said in a news release. The organization has criticized church leaders in Honduras and Costa Rica for failing repeatedly to tell police about the whereabouts of a man they knew was wanted on charges of abusing children. It said it has received telephoned threats warning it to drop the issue." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/07/13/international1525EDT6054.DTL
Group Decries Military on Sex Assaults 7/13/04 By Jon Sarche, AP "Denver - Nearly 200 women serving in the Middle East say they have been sexually assaulted by fellow soldiers in the past 21 months, a victims' advocacy group said Monday as it criticized the U.S. military for falling short in addressing the problem. From October 2002 through June, the Miles Foundation received 187 reports from the region - and fewer than half had been reported to military authorities, said Christine Hansen, executive director of the Connecticut-based group. During the same period, the Pentagon has received 112 reports, Hansen said." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=34&u=/ap/20040713/ap_on_re_us/military_sexual_assault
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/071404A.shtml
Only Cowards Cancel Elections ����By William Rivers Pitt
����t r u t h o u t | Perspective
����Wednesday 14 July 2004
����A number of trial balloons have been floated in recent days, from Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge specifically, about canceling or postponing the national election because of a terrorist attack. DeForest B. Soaries Jr., the Bush-appointed chairman of the newly minted U.S. Election Assistance Commission, apparently got the ball rolling with Ridge by writing a letter to him. In it, he bade Ridge ask Congress for the power to put off the November election in the event of an attack.
����There are wild cards shuffled all through this deck. The simple fact, however, is that no national election has ever been cancelled in all of American history. This is not a streak to be broken under any circumstances. In the darkest hours of the Civil War, when the continued existence of the nation was gravely in doubt, Abraham Lincoln wrote, "We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us."
����Whatever happens, come hell or high water, let us resolve to have an election in November. Voting is the seedcorn act of democracy. Allowing anyone, under any circumstances, to deflect or disrupt the basic, sacred process of this republic would be an admission of absolute, final defeat.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/071004D.shtml
Give it Back, George: The Lay Loot that Bought the White House
����By Greg Palast ��gregpalast.com ����Thursday 08 July 2004
"Ken Lay and his Enron team are the Number One political career donors to George W. Bush. Mr. Lay and his Mrs., with no money to pay back bilked creditors, still managed to personally put up $100,000 for George's inaugural Ball plus $793,110 for personal donations to Republicans. Lay's Enron team dropped $4.2 million into the party that let Enron party."
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