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GOP Pollsters: Personal Accounts Unpopular

WASHINGTON – The heart of President Bush’s plan for Social Security (search), allowing younger workers to create personal accounts in exchange for a lower guaranteed government benefit, is among the least popular elements with the public, Republican pollsters told House GOP (search) leaders Tuesday. The pollsters also stressed the political …

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Quakes Rattle Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Two strong earthquakes rocked Indonesia’s eastern province of Maluku on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, the local geological agency said. The first quake of magnitude-6.4 struck just about 40 minutes after midnight; the second, measuring 6.0 magnitude, came at 7:40 a.m., …

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Fifty-Nine Ex-U.S. Diplomats Oppose Bolton

WASHINGTON – Challenging the White House, 59 former American diplomats are urging the Senate to reject John R. Bolton’s (search) nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “He is the wrong man for this position,” they said in a letter to Sen. Richard Lugar (search), chairman of the …

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