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News Bolivia constitutional assembly set to start rewriting national charter
Bolivia constitutional assembly set to start rewriting national charter
Kate Heneroty
August 6, 2006 10:32:00 am

A Bolivian constitutional convention championed by President Evo Morales was set to open Sunday with the goal of rewriting the country's constitution . Morales and his Movement Towards Socialism party have...

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News Pinochet torture victim elected Chile president
Pinochet torture victim elected Chile president
Kate Heneroty
January 17, 2006 09:26:00 am

Voters in Chile elected Michelle Bachelet as president with 56 percent of the vote in a runoff election Sunday. Bachelet and her parents were imprisoned and tortured in 1973 under the regime...

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News California executes oldest inmate on death row
California executes oldest inmate on death row
Kate Heneroty
January 17, 2006 08:43:00 am

California executed 76-year old Clarence Ray Allen Tuesday morning, despite protests that executing the ailing inmate was cruel and unusual punishment. Allen, who was blind, nearly deaf and confined to a wheelchair, was California's oldest death...

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News FBI questioned legality of post-Sept. 11 NSA surveillance
FBI questioned legality of post-Sept. 11 NSA surveillance
Kate Heneroty
January 17, 2006 08:11:00 am

In the months following Sept. 11, the National Security Agency provided a "flood" of surveillance information to the FBI, most of which proved to be worthless and a waste of FBI resources, and which...

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News Congo election officials certify approval of new constitution
Congo election officials certify approval of new constitution
Kate Heneroty
January 12, 2006 09:25:00 am

Electoral results released by the Independent Electoral Commission in the Democratic Republic of Congo Wednesday certify the landslide approval of the new Congolese constitution ....

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News Pope John Paul II shooter released from Turkish prison
Pope John Paul II shooter released from Turkish prison
Kate Heneroty
January 12, 2006 09:02:00 am

Mehmet Ali Agca , a Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released from a Turkish prison Thursday to cheers from a crowd of nationalist supporters. After serving 20...

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News German court sentences Iraqi for recruiting, funding insurgents
German court sentences Iraqi for recruiting, funding insurgents
Kate Heneroty
January 12, 2006 08:41:00 am

A German court sentenced Iraqi Lokman Amin Mohammed to seven years in prison Thursday for recruiting fighters and raising money to support the insurgency in Iraq. Prosecutors say Mohammed played a key role in the Western Europe branch [JURIST...

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Alito held over as confirmation hearings enter fourth day
Kate Heneroty
January 12, 2006 08:00:00 am

Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee will continue their questioning of Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito into the fourth day of his confirmation hearings Thursday following Wednesday testimony dominated by...

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News EU high court upholds airline passenger rights legislation
EU high court upholds airline passenger rights legislation
Kate Heneroty
January 10, 2006 09:22:00 am

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld a law that requires airlines to pay compensation to passengers who experience long flight delays, overbooking and cancellation on flights to and from the European Union....

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News FISC judges meet with DOJ over warrantless domestic surveillance
FISC judges meet with DOJ over warrantless domestic surveillance
Kate Heneroty
January 10, 2006 08:56:00 am

Judges who serve on the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) met with officials from the Department of Justice Monday for a closed-door briefing on the president's decision to allow warrantless domestic eavesdropping [JURIST news...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Mexican Army kills over 400 Texas prisoners of war

The Mexican army executed more than 400 Texian prisoners of war on March 27, 1836, during the Texas Revolution, in an event that would become known as the Goliad Massacre. A decree passed in December 1835 allowed Mexican soldiers under General Antonio López de Santa Anna to shoot any foreigners in rebellion. Texian Colonel James Fannin and his men surrendered to the Mexican government under the expectation that they would be treated as prisoners of war, but they were executed regardless, engendering sympathy (and eventual support) from the neighboring United States. Learn more about the Goliad Massacre.

Khrushchev becomes USSR leader

On March 27, 1958, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev became the new Premier of the USSR, replacing Joseph Stalin as the Soviet leader. During his rise to power, Khruschev denounced crimes of the Stalinist regime and the "cult of personality" surrounding his predecessor. While in office as Soviet Premier, Khruschev oversaw some of the most famous and influential events of the Cold War: the launch of Sputnik, the Sino-Soviet split, the U-2 Spy Plan incident, and finally the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963, which led to his ouster by reactionary elements the following year. The conspirators forced Khruschev's resignation on October 15, 1964 and replaced him with Leonid Brezhnev.

Read the New York Times obituary of Nikita Khrushchev.

President Andrew Johnson vetoed citizenship for slaves

On March 27, 1866, President Andrew Johnson vetoed a civil rights bill that would later become the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, conferring full US citizenship on all slaves. Read President Johnson's veto letter, transmitted to the US Senate.

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