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Activists to set up blockade of Whiteclay liquor sales:
Native and non-Native activists are setting up a blockade today in hopes of stopping the flow of liquor into the Pine Ridge Reservation in Nebraska.
American Indian Movement leader Russell Means, the Strong Heart Civil Rights Movement and Nebraskans for Peace are among those organizing the blockade. It will be set up on the highway that leads from Whiteclay, Nebraska, to the reservation.
Volunteers stationed in Whiteclay will use radios to tell workers on the highway which vehicles may be carrying beer. The cars will be pulled over and the liquor will be confiscated. Pine Ridge is a dry reservation.
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ABC News: Tropical Stonehenge May Have Been Found -
SAO PAULO, Brazil Jun 27, 2006 (AP)— A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory a find archaeologists say indicates early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed.
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Nepszabadsag: Marchers Resent Bush's Iraq-Hungary Analogy -
According to this article from Hungary's Népszabadság newspaper, some Hungarians are upset that President Bush, during his visit for the 50th anniversary of the Hungary uprising against the Soviets, failed to mention that at the time, Washington 'abandoned' the country to the Soviets. What's more, some believe America is playing the same role as the Soviets, only this time in Iraq.
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American Indian activist Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who compared victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks to a Nazi and who the top university official said should be fired for academic misconduct, said Tuesday that he is being treated unfairly.
He predicted that his case would end up in court after a lengthy and costly appeal.
"Even if the allegations at issue were true - and they certainly are not - they do not constitute offenses for which faculty members can, under any ordinary circumstances, be terminated," he said in a statement.
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BBC News: Israeli soldiers push into Gaza -
Israeli forces have taken up position in southern Gaza after an overnight incursion aimed at freeing a soldier captured by Palestinian militants.
In the first big incursion since the Gaza withdrawal last year, they reached the disused international airport with no reports of casualties. Israel's premier said he was prepared to take "extreme action" and suggested the incursion could last several days. Palestinian leaders condemned what Hamas called "military madness".
This is the fulfillment of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s intentions to attack the Strip After the resistance tried to trade a captured soldier for female and child political prisoners, and may see Benjamin Netanyahu’s dream come true as he said earlier this week that the Israelis could “wipe Gaza off the face of the earth.”