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News BREAKING NEWS ~ WashPost confirms FBI's Felt was "Deep Throat"
BREAKING NEWS ~ WashPost confirms FBI's Felt was "Deep Throat"
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 31, 2005 05:32:00 pm

Following claims circulated by Vanity Fair earlier Tuesday , the Washington Post has confirmed that retired FBI deputy director W. Mark Felt, now 91, was Watergate's "Deep Throat". Reporters Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and former...

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News International brief ~ Ethiopia opposition files suit over elections
International brief ~ Ethiopia opposition files suit over elections
D. Wes Rist
May 31, 2005 04:33:00 pm

Leading Tuesday's international brief, the leading opposition party in Ethiopia has filed suit with local courts in the capital city of Addis Ababa seeking to prevent the official certification of the results of the disputed national...

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News Scrushy jury to work longer in effort to break deadlock
Scrushy jury to work longer in effort to break deadlock
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 03:30:00 pm

Members of an Alabama jury apparently split over whether to convict former HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard M. Scrushy have agreed to add an hour of work to their daily deliberations, according to a...

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News Bush calls Amnesty International rights report ‘absurd’
Bush calls Amnesty International rights report ‘absurd’
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 02:54:00 pm

In a White House press conference Tuesday US President George W. Bush slammed a report from rights group Amnesty International as "absurd" after the organization referred to US detention facilities abroad as an...

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News Sudan arrests second Dutch MSF aid worker over rape report
Sudan arrests second Dutch MSF aid worker over rape report
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 02:17:00 pm

The Sudanese government Tuesday arrested the Darfur coordinator for the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) , the second arrest of an MSF aid worker in two days. Vince Hoedt was detained over a March 2005 report...

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News Dutch officials seek last-minute support for EU constitution
Dutch officials seek last-minute support for EU constitution
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 01:46:00 pm

Government officials in the Netherlands are making a final plea to Dutch voters in an effort to persuade them to support the European constitution in a June 1 referendum, an uphill battle after voters in...

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News Iraq president expects Saddam Hussein trial within two months
Iraq president expects Saddam Hussein trial within two months
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 01:17:00 pm

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could face trial for war crimes within two months according to comments made Tuesday by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in a CNN interview. Talabani said that the Iraqi people...

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News Venezuela threatens retaliation after Supreme Court head’s US visa cancelled
Venezuela threatens retaliation after Supreme Court head’s US visa cancelled
Tom Henry
May 31, 2005 12:45:00 pm

Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel has said US officials may not be welcome to visit Venezuela after the president of the Venezuelan Supreme Court Omar Mora had his tourist...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Ex-FBI official claims to be Watergate "Deep Throat"
BREAKING NEWS ~ Ex-FBI official claims to be Watergate "Deep Throat"
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 31, 2005 12:38:00 pm

Wire services are reporting that a former FBI official is claiming to be "Deep Throat", the Washington insider who leaked secrets about the Watergate coverup to the Washington Post that eventually led to President Richard Nixon's 1974 resignation, according...

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News Pope supports boycott of Italian fertility referendum
Pope supports boycott of Italian fertility referendum
Krista-Ann Staley
May 31, 2005 11:37:00 am

Pope Benedict XVI stepped into an ongoing political fray Monday by backing calls for Italian voters to abstain from a June referendum on embryo research, artificial insemination, and egg and sperm donation. At issue in the referendum...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards

On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

Gdansk Agreement reached

On August 31, 1980, the communist government of Poland and labor leaders settled the Gdansk Agreement. The accord settled a summer of labor strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. With the Agreement, Poland became the first communist country to allow the creation of an independent labor union, which was called Solidarity. Solidarity then became the driving force that ended communism in Poland. Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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