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Senate panel approves Pentagon nominee Chuck Hagel
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel has voted to approve the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary. The Armed Services Committee voted 14-11 to send the nomination to the full Senate. Tuesday's vote broke...
Tags: Libya, U.S. Department of Defense, Chuck Hagel, John Brennan, Benghazi
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Friedens woman pleads guilty to stealing from veterans organization
DAILY AMERICAN REPORTERLorrie Sue Fisher, 39, Friedens, pleaded guilty in Somerset County court Monday to one count of theft by unlawful taking for stealing more than $4,000 from a Vietnam veterans group. She served as bookkeeper for Somerset County Vietnam Veterans of...Tags: Punishment, Trials, Theft, Memorial Day, Friedens
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House Panel Slated to Discuss Vietnam Veterans Day
Channel 2 NewsA state House panel will consider a bill that calls for designating March 29 as Vietnam Veterans Day in Alaska. The special committee on Military and Veterans' Affairs is scheduled to hear HB67 on Thursday. March 29, 1973 was the date the last U.S....Tags: Barack Obama, Veterans Day
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'Working holidays' considered as recognition for S.D. veterans
PIERRE – The state Senate has already given its OK for a new working holiday in South Dakota called Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. Now the state House of Representatives will weigh in on two more in recognition of groups of special veterans. ...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Physical Disabilities, Prisoners and Detainees, Memorial Day, Government
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Vietnam: Members of 'reactionary' group jailed for 10 years to life
Vietnam on Monday sentenced the head of an organization accused of “smearing the current system” and trying to topple the government to life behind bars, state media reported. The official Vietnam News Agency reported that Phan Van Thu...
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Punishment, Politics, Justice and Rights, News Agency
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BREAKING NEWS: Hostage situation ends in Alabama, 5-year-old child is safe, kidnapper dead
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. - A U.S. official tells CBS News that a nearly week-long hostage standoff in which a 5-year-old was being held captive in southeast Alabama has ended in the kidnapper's death. The child is said to be okay. Authorities said 65-year-old...
Tags: CBS Corp., Charles Poland, Jr., Kidnapping
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Vietnam releases American activist accused of subversion
An American democracy activist accused of trying to overthrow the Vietnamese government was freed Wednesday and sent home to Southern California to rejoin his family, more than nine months after he was first detained in Saigon. The unexpected decision...
Tags: Punishment, Justice and Rights, Activism, Government, Human Rights
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Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who presided over the swift and devastating 1991 military assault on Iraq that transformed the Middle East and reminded America what it was like to win a war, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 78. The...Tags: Iraq, H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Heroism, Parties and Movements, Elizabeth II
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Duy Quang dies at 61; renowned Vietnamese singer
The eldest sibling in Vietnam's most enduring singing family, Duy Quang was known for holding audiences enthralled as he boomed out the ballads of yesteryear, many penned by his father, Pham Duy, who knew how to tug at a listener's heart with songs...
Tags: Music, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Washington, DC, Lung Cancer, Hanoi (Vietnam)
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Vietnam vets might get a state holiday
PIERRE — Starting next year, March 30 could be a working holiday in South Dakota called Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. A contingent of Vietnam vets attended a legislative hearing on the proposal Wednesday. A working holiday means the...Tags: American Legion, U.S. Army, Watertown, Veterans Day, Holidays
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Letters: China as a bully
Re "China's me-first foreign policy," Opinion, Jan. 20 Last week, I attended a memorial for Vietnamese citizens killed because they spoke out or fought against a Chinese incursion into Vietnam. While China's territorial dispute with Japan has garnered...Tags: China
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Veterans Know What Guns Can Do
The Hartford CourantIf President Barack Obama is looking for allies in his quest to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people, I suggest he think about veterans. Not necessarily the guy who ran the movie projector at Fort Dix, but men and now women who served in...Tags: Barack Obama, World War II (1939-1945), Crime, Law and Justice
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