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  • In Motor City, Mayor Is in Quite a Scrape Over a Flashy SUV

    01/27/2005 9:32:09 AM PST · by harpu · 36 replies · 1,287+ views
    A Motown 'snitch network' | 1/27/05 | Rhonee Williams & Nadirah Muhammad
    Waiting for a bus on a slushy downtown corner earlier this week, 33-year-old Rhonee Williams made a vow. If a certain cherry-red 2005 Lincoln Navigator SUV happened to stop there, "I'm getting in it!" Like many angry Detroiters, the clothing-store cashier feels entitled to a ride. She's upset because, at a time when Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is planning big budget cuts -- including cuts in bus service -- the city recently leased a luxury Navigator for the mayor's family using taxpayers' money. It isn't surprising that in this beleaguered city built on the auto industry, such a vehicle has...
  • IRAQ BLOWS UP ABOUT 2,500 OILFIELDS

    03/06/2003 7:29:13 AM PST · by Heartlander2 · 227 replies · 637+ views
    TEHRAN, March 6, 2003. /from RIA Novosti correspondent Nikolai Terekhov/. - Iraq has dropped bombs hitting 2,500 oil fields that cover a vast area. According to the IRNA agency, the bombing near Sharjeh resulted in the explosion of an oil refinery near Kirkuk. Some oil-bearing wells were mined with antitank mines. The Iraqi Army units are ditching around near Baghdad and Kirkuk round the clock to resist the US Army.