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RadTimes # 125 December, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
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--Elie Wiesel
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Contents:
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--New radical anarchism on the march
--Mainstreaming Anarchy
--We Need To Be Guerrillas
--The Ballot Or The Bullet?
--Pacifica --How Ironic!
--A libertarian looks at the greens
--Reader commentary
re: "When The FBI Knocks, A First-Person Account"
Linked stories:
*The Future: Part Man, Part Beast
*Unions Next Dot-Com Revolution?
*Texas breaks execution record
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New radical anarchism on the march
This is from Jane's Terrorism and Security Monitor
Go to http://www.janes.com to see what they're about...
October 19, 2000
THE thousands of protesters who descended upon the World Trade Organisation
(WTO) meeting in Seattle in December, at the meeting of the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, in April, and at the
Democratic and Republican national conventions this summer, represent a new
phenomenon in political activism.
It marks the first time since the Vietnam War that so many Americans,
particularly young Americans, are willing to go to jail to make a political
point.
The protesters - who have like-minded allies in Western Europe - tend to be
young, idealistic and concerned about the environment. In addition to an
anti-establishment ethos, today's social activists voice deep forebodings
about the growing power of global corporations.
While the protesters have individual concerns - ranging from workers' rights
to protecting the natural resources of developing countries - they are
united in their opposition to the globalisation that has swept the US and
other countries in recent years.
Mark Weisbrott, of the left-leaning Centre for Economic and Policy Research
in Washington, summed it up: "We are opposed to this tremendous
concentration of power that is unaccountable and causes enormous destruction
around the world."
Corporate power
Institutions such as the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF appear to be
perfect foils for a whole variety of protesters, according to Alexander
Bloom, a professor of American history at Wheaton College. "You have people
concerned with the environment, labour, the anti-sweat shop movement and the
notion that these institutions represent some kind of invisible corporate
power."
One element of the protests has been the revival of anarchism. Black-masked
anarchists stoned chain stores in Seattle and protesters with giant A's
pasted on their shirts blocked intersections in Washington during the
Republican National Convention and in Los Angeles for the Democratic
convention.
Anarchism, it seems, is becoming fashionable. This may be seen in the way
protesters of diverse loyalties - labour, environmental, and consumer groups
among them - have sought to become a mass but leaderless movement, a
collection of affinity groups that operate by consensus. Many of those who
oppose international capitalism call for a return to local decision-making,
echoing long-time anarchist objections to the way nation states usurped the
power of cities and towns.
Paul Avrich, a leading historian of anarchism at Queens College in New York,
said: "With the decline of socialism, you have seen anarchism go through a
revival as an easy way to oppose global capitalism."
He claims anarchist groups are emerging in every major city, but whether
this radicalism will emerge into a movement is less than clear. Analysts
argue that too many disparate themes do not make for coherent protest.
At the Democratic convention in LA, for example, gang members protesting
police brutality joined vegetable-eating environmentalists protesting about
logging. Hippies marched with welfare mothers. Free trade foes marched with
the self-described "radical anarchist clown bloc". Two banners displayed
signs against the WTO and the North American Free Trade Agreement. They
flanked another banner that included a discourse on revolution and the Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal slogan (Mumia was convicted in 1981 and sentenced to death
row for shooting a Philadelphia police officer).
Boycott favoured
The protest movement's leaders say their next objective is to spread the
anti-globalisation message to religious organisations, unions and city
councils. Many favour a boycott of World Bank bonds, the main financing tool
the Bank uses to pay for its operations.
Critics argue that the protesters are advocating policies that would hurt
the very people they seek to help. Professor Lestor Thurow, an economist at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: "Globalisation is similar
to what happened a century ago when electricity and things that went with it
(the telegraph, the telephone, the radio) replaced the local regional
economies with a new national economy. "The difference is that we already
had a democratically elected national government standing by to regulate
this new national economy. Today, there is no democratically elected global
government ready to regulate this new global economy. While the
demonstrators talk about democracy or lack of democracy at the WTO, the IMF,
or the World Bank, they don't really believe in global democracy."
For whilst there is much of the 1960s in the tactics of the protestors,
their 'ideology' has more in common with the 19th century questions over
burgeoning capitalism - how ro reconcile the demands for growth with the
need to preserve fairness. At present the protestors seem to simply want to
tell the developing countries to stop developing.
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Mainstreaming Anarchy
Anarchist Age Weekly Review No. 429
It¹s time to break out of the political ghettos and move into the
mainstream. For far too long anarchists and anarchist ideas have been
regulated to the very fringes of political, social and cultural life. In
those societies where anarchists are able to operate in an open fashion,
it¹s important we seize the moment and make our presence felt in the
communities we work and live in. Western society is faced with a crisis,
20th century alternatives are no longer seen as desirable or relevant.
The demise of communism as a viable alternative has opened the gates to
anarchist modes of thinking. What we have to say is just as legitimate,
sensible, secure and rational as any other social or political movement.
Technology, access to education, and rising personal and community
expectations are just a few of the reasons why the 21st Century is the
anarchist century. Unfortunately most anarchist activists in Western
societies are still using the same strategies that were being used when
anarchism was a marginal movement.
As anarchist activists we need to move into mainstream activity. If we
don¹t bring our ideas to the fore of community thinking, nobody else will.
We need to break out of ghetto marginal thinking and place our ideas within
mainstream frameworks.
Anarchist principles of organisation and anarchist modes of action don¹t
have to be only used by anarchists. The communities we live in need to
experience and see how anarchist principles of organisation strengthen a
group¹s ability to get the job done. Join mainstream community groups from
Neighbourhood Watch, to local school councils, to issue orientated groups,
to trade unions, church groups and community groups as an anarchist. Show
people that anarchists are not television cardboard cut outs. Show them we
are real living human beings with ideas, and principles that offer solutions
to the community and personal alienation, cynicism and despair that has been
created by the corporate monopolisation of all aspects of daily life.
Strike back, subvert the dominant institutions in society by breaking the
cultural and intellectual stranglehold that they hold - be yourself, be an
anarchist, break out of the intellectual, moral, cultural and political
ghettos that our enemies have been able to fence us behind.
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We Need To Be Guerrillas
by Hilary Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Guardian of London
December 5, 2000
The year 2000 is to be brought to a close by the opening round of the
auctioning of selected public services to the world's most predatory -
mainly US - corporations. This process is sanctioned by GATS (the
General Agreement on Trade in Services), and items that could be on
offer range from Mexico's telecommunications to Britain's schools. The
deadline being offered to governments by the World Trade Organisation
is this month.
GATS is a set of international regulations which will require national
governments to open up public services to the market. Its aim is to
remove all internal government controls over service delivery that are
barriers to trade. In effect, it is the framework for a global programme of
privatisation. GATS identifies 160 sectors to be subject to its rules. They
range from hi-tech telecommunications to emptying the dustbins. They
would make government actions to keep local control over these services
illegal.
This new machinery of liberalisation comes at a time when profits in
manufacturing are falling and corporations are hungry for new markets.
AT&T, Arthur Anderson, the Chase Manhattan bank, IBM, the energy
company ENRON, accountants Price Waterhouse Cooper and Ernst and
Young and many others, as democratic as a band of feudal lords, are
salivating in anticipation.
What power has voting had over this international regime which
will, in
the long run, transform the quality of our lives? None. On the other hand,
people did originally vote for the services now being sold. They still do.
David Hartridge, director of the WTO Services Division, indicates where
power lies: "Without the enormous pressure generated by the American
financial services sector, particularly companies like American Express
and Citicorp, there would have been no GATS."
There has been no parliamentary debate on Britain's support for
GATS. The only electoral arena in which it has been raised is the US.
Thanks to Ralph Nader. The one positive feature of the recent US
campaign has been a platform for Nader to sound the alarm on how
strangled democracy has become. The importance of this has sunk under
recriminations about taking votes from Al Gore. But Nader's campaign
was especially important because he was able to combine his well-
deserved reputation for exposing and curbing corporate power with the
new anti-capitalist energies of those who led the protests in Seattle and
Prague.
What next? What can be learnt for the green left in Britain in the
face
of corporate dominance? Holding inspiring rallies gives a kick start to a
movement, but any new counter power has to root its ideas and demands
in our potentially powerful community and workplace organisations: win
the trust of black and feminist organisations; persuade organisations like
the Green party and different socialist parties to let go of their exclusive
claims to leadership.
In Britain something is stirring in relations between left
parties. The
election of green socialist Penny Kemp as chair of the Green party might
improve the chances of socialist/green collaboration. In Preston, where a
New Labour candidate was selected over outstanding socialist Valerie
Wise, Labour party members talked privately about putting principle
before party and voting for the Socialist Alliance.
Even the largest far left organisations are beginning to overcome
their
debilitating sectarianism. The Scottish Socialist party built its considerable
influence through its involvement in resistance to the poll tax, water
privatisation and motorways cutting through working-class estates. The
SSP gained more votes than the Lib-Dems in the last two byelections for
the Scottish parliament and six out of the last seven council byelections
across Scotland.
Modest cooperative alternatives, ranging from organic food providers
to local recycling, credit unions and environmental resource centres, will
not bring about fundamental change on their own; they need allies with
other kinds of power. One source of alliance is the much diminished
power of organised workers. On both sides of the Atlantic, trade unions
have begun to reinvigorate themselves by addressing the limitations of
their old workplace-based, national structures.
All these initiatives on the independent left are part of the
toolkit of a
nimble, plural, international guerrilla strategy to break the corporate grip
on democracy.
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Hilary Wainwright is editor of Red Pepper
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The Ballot Or The Bullet?
by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Ballot Or The Bullet?
There are no fair elections in America, certainly when the questions of race
and political power are evident. It's interesting therefore to look at the
presidential election of the year 2000. Many things have not been widely
reported, which shows that this electoral race has come so close to
political violence, if not outright fascism. The right-wing, including
paramilitary militias in Florida and other states, have been planning for a
civil war for quite some time. Now they have a genuine "excuse" for
political violence.
For instance, shortly after the first recounts began in Florida, the most
extreme elements of the Republicans, bolstered by gunmen began taking about
"blood in the streets." Even the USA Today began to write articles about
the high "state of tension" over the elections and threats of violence in
Florida. After it seemed that Bush would lose because of ballots not counted
in Palm Beach and other Democratic counties, they began to talk about the
possibility of a civil war. For instance, U.S. Congressman Ron Paul
(R-Texas) stated on a Dallas-Fort Worth radio talk show if he thought all
the Gore legal maneuvers were a plot so that Pres. Clinton could remain in
power replied that "...The people would come out and there would be total
violence." In addition to this, there have been reports of accelerated
widespread ammunition and arms sales in White suburban areas all over
Florida.
These white Republicans had alleged widespread "voter fraud" by Democrats
against their man George W. Bush, until it became clear that the Republican
establishment had enough power to stave off Gore's legal and electoral
challenges. It seems (as I'm writing this) that Bush has captured Florida,
and overtaken Gore in electoral votes, if not the national vote total. (Hey,
his brother is the Governor [!], who believes that that does not count for
something? All the electoral and political officials in the State of Florida
report to Jeb Bush.)
Although the white conservatives claimed "fraud" for mere tactical
advantage. It really does appear that there has been widespread fraud
against Black people in Florida and other Southern states. They have been
disallowed the right to vote in thousands of cases, especially in those
Southern counties where they have substantial numbers. In Florida, they
voted in record numbers only to have their ballots massively disallowed.
Even before the election, thousands of Black people in Florida, Tennessee,
Mississippi, Alabama, and other Southern states were purged from the voter
rolls without even so much of a notice of the action. Many Black people
arrived at their voting precinct office to find it had "moved" or that they
no longer qualified to vote. This interference by white racist voting
registrars is the very sort of stuff that the Voting Rights Act of 1964 was
designed to prevent.
There is no question that we are seeing a resurgence of the very sort of
illegal racist activity which has always gone on down South, especially in
many small towns and mid-sized cities. When Black people started to make
inroads in the electoral arena, after the Civil War displaced the plantation
owners and dismantled the slave system, they were subjected to poll taxes,
literacy tests, and other illegal methods to deny them access to the right
to vote. Now we are seeing the revival of these methods in the 2000
elections. No doubt racist vigilantism is only a step away!
Most Black people understand that a Bush electoral victory means an outright
hostile federal government to the national Black community. Possibly a
government more hostile than the Reagan administration of the 1980's, who
took actions that we are still suffering from. It is pointless to argue to
them about the backwardness and treachery of the Democrats, who do not have
our best interests at heart either. The 100,000 new cops beating down our
community were hired by Clinton, the 2 million Black and poor prisoners were
jailed by Clinton, the massive new poverty of millions was because Clinton
signed legislation to destroy welfare, and you could point to other inimical
actions. But the Democratic "fox" (in sheep's clothing) is preferable to the
Republican "wolf", even though both are eating us alive.
At times like this, it's important to think about Malcolm X's famous "Ballot
or the Bullet" speech, given in Cleveland (OH.) over 36 years ago. Brother
Malcolm talked about the American two party system as "a giant con game",
and that both the Democrats and Republican were working together to oppress
Black people in this country. He talked about Southern racists (Dixiecrats)
and Northern Liberals (Democrats) controlling the political system of the
day, and tricking Black folks out of their vote. He said if Black people
could freely vote in the South then many of the racist segregationists would
lose their seats in Congress, which has been somewhat true. That was in
1964, well now the right-wingers have regrouped into the Republican Party.
They are supported by the most reactionary wing of finance capital, under
the guise of Christianity, which elected Reagan in 1980 and now Bush in
2000. Some diehard racists like Strom Thurmond, Jessie Helms and others from
the 1960's who opposed the civil right laws, are still in office, even to
this day. How much political progress has truly been made by Black people in
all this time? Our democratic rights which have been won with so much
sacrifice are now being taken away.
The most important thing here is that we need to organize in the streets,
not just for civil rights or American citizenship rights, but total
political independence in whatever form that takes. We need to use whatever
means of resistance is necessary to secure our freedom, and not be trapped
into thinking that our entire future is bound up in the current fate of Al
Gore. Whether he wins or loses, we will still be Black and have to deal with
racism in the United States.
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Pacifica --How Ironic!
From: "Bob Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000
Like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) President who has been
sponsoring the Pacifica National Board's anti-democratic activities in
recent years, Robert Coonrod, NPR News Managing Editor Barbara Rehm used to
work for the Voice of America propaganda agency. Before becoming NPR News'
Assistant Managing Editor and its All Things Considered executive producer
in the late 1990s, Rehm worked in the central newsroom of the Voice of
America between 1992 and 1995.
(Ironically, one of the correspondents at NPR's New York Bureau in recent
years, Margot Adler, used to work at the listener-sponsored WBAI radio
station for many years.)
Prior to obtaining her job in the Voice of America's central newsroom, NPR
News Managing Editor Rehm worked between 1981 and 1991 as the State
Department correspondent for The New York Daily News. (The same newspaper
that, ironically, has employed a co-host of one of WBAI's daily news show in
recent years).
The Steve Rodan who apparently used to work for the CPB-sponsored Pacifica
Network News is a former Jerusalem Post editor who is presently both the
president of the Middle East Newsline and a member of the
www.WorldTribune.com's board of editors. Other members of the World Tribune
Com's board of editors include a Washington Times national security
correspondent, a media fellow at the Hoover Institute and the president of
the right-wing Hudson Institute think-tank.
Ironically, a November 13,2000 article about Amy Goodman's interview of
Clinton on WBAI can be found on the www.worldtribune.com's web site.
Speaking of the CPB push to make WBAI's news department more like the NPR
News department, the Epstein, Becker & Green law/lobbying firm which has a
representative, John Murdock, on the Pacifica National Board has earned
hundreds of thousands of dollars in D.C. lobbying income since 1997. And
one of the clients PNB board member Murdock's law firm has lobbied for in
recent years has been the National Funeral Directors Association.
bob
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From: "Mike Alcalay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Bob...great info!
As you probably know, you can add to your list other VOA folks, including
NPR head Kevin Klose, KQED CEO Mary Bitterman (under Carter and then head of
USIA's East-West Center in Hawaii) and KQED CFO Joe Bruns (formerly with
Radio Marti and brought in by Bitterman). When the Berlin Wall came down,
these national security people moved on-shore into key public broadcasting
positions.
Mike
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A libertarian looks at the greens
Green agenda-setting
by Brian Glazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
November 29, 2000
Third parties are shifting the debate in the United States -- but the
pendulum swings not where friends of liberty had hoped.
To everyone who has called the bluff of the Democrats and Republicans, its
clear the focus of debate needs to head in a new direction. Led by Ralph
Nader and his finely tuned activists, the Green Party has taken control of
shifting the debate among those who are frustrated by the system. The
discussion of America's future, though, is not one of individual liberty
and downsizing government. Quite the contrary, the Greens have gotten a
finger on the reins and begun to veer us toward a place where profit is
sin, smaller business is always better, and, worst of all, government is
the ultimate savior.
What's especially disappointing about this current shift is that the
majority of Americans -- including immigrants, the elderly, and former
hippies -- have been down this road before. Tens of thousands of people
stream into America to escape harsh dictatorial governments, unwavering
theocracies, and any other kind of perverted government styles that clamp
down on individual rights. Our grandparents fought wars to prevent the very
things that government policies are leading us towards. And most of the
hippies figured out that feeding their kids was easier and more productive
when they relied on themselves instead of Uncle Sam. Been there, done that.
Yet we're about to go for another spin around the block.
The ranks of the Greens are made up of mostly younger generations who are
rightly disillusioned with contemporary politics. But instead of heeding
past lessons and reading the fine print, the young activists have been
groomed to point the finger at greedy corporations and SUV's. Whether it's
because of poorly run government schools, or misplaced agendas in the ivory
towers, a large contingent of baby-boomers and students have gotten the
wrong message. Instead of reading 'Common Sense', they're reading 'The
Communist Manifesto'. Young people who are angry instinctively look for a
leader. Hitler knew this as much as a number of modern day professional
politicians.
Perhaps we are lucky, then, that most of the young, disillusioned coeds
have not taken up putting in yard signs and canvassing their neighborhoods.
If they were, those who like voluntary business practices and shooting guns
on private property might be reading the opening paragraph of the
Declaration of Independence with a lot more seriousness. It's not at all
hard to imagine a Green Party teeming with at least 15% of the population,
if not more, when one figures how many younger people are angry at the
system but choose to do nothing. Indeed, the way the current debate is
going, if the angry young voters actually decide to vote and get active,
just like moths seeking the lights at a baseball game, they're gonna go
where the action is.
Right now the action is over yonder where people are talking about
outlawing cars and maybe even people. To his credit, Nader is doing a
better job than Timothy Leary in getting the younger generations to tune in
and turn on to his crusade.
It seems that Nader has done a much better job of using civil disobedience
than libertarians or any other group that isn't at all content with the
direction things are heading. During the first presidential debate, Nader
tried to get into a University of Massachusetts auditorium. He had a
legitimate ticket and was turned away, but he returned with a news team and
got booted again. Pissed-off twenty-somethings love someone who tries to
stick it to the man. For all his philosophical flaws, this guy and his crew
sure are persistent. That's exactly why he gets noticed by the hordes of
just-hatched activists and voters who trust their gut that something isn't
right with the system. And that's exactly why he draws crowds of over a
thousand people on college campuses.
Because of the Greens' willingness to throw themselves into the fray, they
are building their numbers and shifting the debate. Now, the majority of
America thinks the major issue is not what the government should and
shouldn't do, but what and how far the government should go in doing it.
The central debates of political theory for the past few thousand years are
dying before our eyes. There have always been populists like Nader, but
they were always confronted by bigger masses of people who knew the real
deal. Most people don't know the real deal about government anymore, and
the Greens are steering the caravan even further from any real foundation.
The people we elect are crucial to the direction this country moves. As
always, there will be plenty of FDRs, Kennedys, and Clintons elected to
office. More important, however, than who is elected, is the current of
debate in which they were elected. We place our leaders against a
background context in which they are judged. When ideas of government
purpose stick out, people notice and attempt to place the black-sheep ideas
back in context with the mainstream of thought. Nader and the Greens have
capitalized on a changed background so that to many young people, and
plenty of middle-agers, the black sheep doesn't stick out anymore. Hence,
the draconian plans of Nader are not deemed radical anymore because they're
not far off from the plans of the powers that be.
The presidential debates stand as a fine example of the already changed
tide. We see universal health-care, universal equality, and universal
financial aid all put forward as aims of government. When the debated
topics are accepted as the foremost concerns of a people, anyone
challenging those concerns becomes the not-to-be-trusted stranger. Reason
and history be damned.
How ironic it is that the ideas which are crucial to the open exchange of
political discourse are now on the fringe. The overall debate has shifted
in this election cycle and much credit is due Ralph Nader's hard work and
keen eye. Getting that pendulum to reverse its momentum is going to be
another challenge altogether.
Maybe those few but committed individuals who have a love affair with
freedom will learn a thing or two from Nader's antics. Maybe not. And just
maybe, the Internet will make everything all better.
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Reader commentary
re: "When The FBI Knocks, A First-Person Account"
From: Scott B.
Interesting story on FBI, but I'm worried that the "lesson" is that you
have to back up data, rather than to
tell the FBI to piss off. It's fine for this guy to fall back on being
"innocent", but most of the time you
have no idea of what they are after and any info you give can get others in
deep shit. Many of us learned
this lesson the hard way during the 70's and 80's.
There is info from the Nat. Lawyers Guild on Visits and Grand Juries that
is very good. It would be
responsible follow up to post it on this site so people aren't fools based
on your story.
Scott
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radman responds:
The NLG's site is <www.nlg.org>, but I couldn't find the info you cite above.
Let me know where it is and I'll post the appropriate link(s).
In the meantime, please see:
"If an Agent Knocks: Federal Investigators and Your Rights"
<http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/Feds/If_an_Agent_Knocks.htm>
(issued by the Center for Constitutional Rights); and also,
"Common Sense Security" <http://www.publiceye.org/eyes/comsense.html>
by Sheila O'Donnell.
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Linked stories:
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The Future: Part Man, Part Beast
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,40512,00.html?tw=wn20001205>
The American Medical Association decides soon on ethical guidelines
for animal-to-human organ or cell transplantation. Some believe the
risks are too great.
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Unions Next Dot-Com Revolution?
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40461,00.html?tw=wn20001202>
Another day, another round of layoffs. But a closer look at Friday's
pink slips at San Francisco's etown.com reveals an agitated workforce,
some of whom are talking union. Could this be the tip of the dot-
iceberg?
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Texas breaks execution record
<http://itn.co.uk/news/20001206/world/05texasexecution.shtml>
A man convicted of the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl was
executed by lethal injection in the thirty eighth execution of the year in
Texas - the highest annual total by any state in American history.
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