U S focus on religious persecution grows in State report
The State Department releases a first ever accounting of religious persecution highlighting abuses against Christians and other faiths, urging asylum offices to weigh persecution claims more heavily. Russia weighs in with church reforms, while Western pressure aims to embarrass regimes into reform.
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Madeleine Albright
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Letters urge direct talk over anonymous tree complaint
A homeowner at 401 S Sequoia Ave defends removing an overgrown tree after a street department complaint about vision for drivers. He paid 65 to fix the issue and questions anonymous criticism, arguing face to face discussion would have sufficed.
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Today in History August 1 Highlights 1997
On Aug 1 1873 Andrew S Hallidie successfully tested a cable car designed for San Francisco. Colorado became the 38th state on Aug 1 1876. The note marks the 213th day of 1997 and 152 days remain in the year.
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Andrew S. Hallidie
San Francisco
Colorado
Visitors from Anchor Age Meet Local Family in 1972 Note
Lt. Col. Joe D Underwood and his family from Anchor Age Alaska visited the Walter E Sallee home at 705 F E Dora Drive as cousins. Don Price presided over a Bulldog Parents and Artesia Booster Club meeting in the School Administration Building. Heather Wilson daughter of Mr and Mrs Mark Wilson of 1705 Briscoe is New Mexico s new state strutting champion in basic strut and fancy T strut and placed first runner up in parade majorette and third runner up in solo in Portales.
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Joe D. Underwood
Anchorage
Alaska
Walter E. Sallee
Dora Drive
Mr. Sallee
Don Price
Bulldog Parents and Artesia
Heather Wilson
Mark Wilson
Briscoe
New Mexico
Parade
Portales
Albuquerque Runoff Debate Over Election Law Drafters
Albuquerque officials face a constitutional snag on how to declare mayoral winners. A state rule requires the top vote getter to win, threatening two election rounds. Judges and attorneys weigh nonpartisan primaries, qualifying rounds, or constitutional amendments as fixes. Filing day looms as Cargo leverages name recognition and union support while incumbents face potential changes that may not come in time.
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Duke
Las Cruces
Tom Udall
State Court of Appeals
Sam Bregman
Martin Chavez
Louis Saavedra
Ken Schultz
Harry Kinney
Harry
Chavez
Dave Cargo
Cargo
Cardenas Wins Mexico City Mayor Seat Amid PRI Watch
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas has become mayor of Mexico City, the first non PRI figure to win the post in seven decades. He hopes the victory will propel a future bid for the presidency, though CIA and Mexican sources doubt he can win nationwide in three years.
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Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
Mexico City
Institutional Revolutionary Party
PRI
Cardenas
Lazaro
Mexico
U.S
CIA
Lazaro Cardenas
Cuauhtemoc
Ernesto Zedillo
Zedillo
Historic budget deal quiets anti immigrant hysteria
The bipartisan budget agreement restores Supplemental Security Income for elderly or disabled legal immigrants who entered before August 1996, ending welfare cuts from last year. The piece traces cycles of xenophobia in American history from 1870s to recent decades and notes shifting public mood toward immigrants and renewed acceptance.
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Congress
Pat Buchanan
Bob Dole
Buchanan
Dole
New York
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