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News Iran announces arrests for election violations
Iran announces arrests for election violations
David Shucosky
June 23, 2005 08:48:00 am

Iran's official news agency reported on Thursday that at least 26 people, including a military figure, have been arrested for suspected election violations commited during last week's first round of presidential voting. The close voting required a partial recount...

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News Charity tax laws report [PNS]
Charity tax laws report [PNS]
June 22, 2005 10:14:00 pm

Strengthening Transparency, Governance, Accountability; Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, June 22, 2005 . Excerpt:This report is a vital...

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News Flag burning amendment [US House]
Flag burning amendment [US House]
June 22, 2005 09:43:00 pm

H.J. Res. 10, Proposing an amendment to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the US, approved by the US House of Representatives on June 22, 2005 ....

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News Panel recommends Congress  tighten charity tax laws
Panel recommends Congress tighten charity tax laws
Holly Manges Jones
June 22, 2005 09:01:00 pm

The independent Panel on the Nonprofit Sector released a report Wednesday recommending that Congress require charities to develop stricter policies on the disclosure of financial information by retaining external independent accountants, reveal more details on executive...

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News G-4 nations want UN Security Council expansion vote in July
G-4 nations want UN Security Council expansion vote in July
Holly Manges Jones
June 22, 2005 08:21:00 pm

Four countries seeking permanent representation on the UN Security Council - Japan, Brazil, India, and Germany - said Wednesday at a foreign ministry meeting in Brussels that they would request a July vote on their...

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News Colombia passes bill intended to induce paramilitary warlords to disarm
Colombia passes bill intended to induce paramilitary warlords to disarm
Holly Manges Jones
June 22, 2005 07:43:00 pm

The Colombian Congress passed a bill Wednesday which gives lesser punishments to paramilitary leaders who disarm, admit their crimes, compensate victims, and return stolen goods. The bill, announced last week , was approved after Colombian President Alvaro Uribe...

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News Boy who identified Lionel Tate as robber retracts story
Boy who identified Lionel Tate as robber retracts story
Holly Manges Jones
June 22, 2005 06:48:00 pm

A young boy who claimed that Lionel Tate robbed a pizza delivery man at gunpoint in May "took back" his story Wednesday, which could mean freedom again for Tate, once the youngest American to receive...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC to vote on mutual funds rule
Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC to vote on mutual funds rule
James Murdock
June 22, 2005 06:11:00 pm

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC has announced that its five-member panel will vote again on a controversial rule requiring mutual funds to be overseen by independent chairmen. The announcement comes after a federal...

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News States brief ~ PA Supreme Court upholds slot-machine law
States brief ~ PA Supreme Court upholds slot-machine law
Rachel Felton
June 22, 2005 05:12:00 pm

Leading Wednesday's states brief, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld the state's slot-machine gambling law . While rejecting some parts of the law, the court found that the process used by the legislature to enact the law was constitutional....

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News Pentagon report finds no religious discrimination at Air Force Academy
Pentagon report finds no religious discrimination at Air Force Academy
David Shucosky
June 22, 2005 04:53:00 pm

A Pentagon report released Wednesday detailed troubling relgious insensitivity at the US Air Force Academy , but found no overt acts of religious discrimination. The Department of Defense investigated the constitutionality of certain religious practices and...

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Convention on Psychotropic Substances signed

On February 21, 1971, the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The Convention was promulgated to regulate psychotropic drugs, extending the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which applied to cannabis-, cocoa-, and opium-based drugs. In 1988, the UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was promulgated to address international drug manufacture, possession, and distribution, primarily in organized crime. 175 nations are now parties to the Convention. Member nations have implemented the Convention in the form of domestic laws such as the US Psychotropic Substances Act, the UK Misuse of Drugs Act, and the Canadian Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Former Nixon AG Mitchell sentenced to prison for Watergate

On February 21, 1975, former US Attorney General John Mitchell, Nixon Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic adviser John Ehrlichman were sentenced to prison terms of 2 1/2 to 8 years for obstructing justice in the Watergate affair.

Learn more about John Mitchell from the Washington Post.

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