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  United Press International - SourceWatch
United Press International was purchased in May 2000 by News World Communications, a Unification Church-controlled company.
United Press International was established in 1907 and gained a reputation as a pioneering global wire service featuring many of the big names of journalism including Walter Cronkite and Helen Thomas.
In 1958 United Press, as it was then known, merged with International News Service owned by William Randolph Hearst.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=UPI   (696 words)

  
 United Press International - Journawiki - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
United Press International - Journawiki - A Wikia wiki
United Press International was once the third-largest newswire in the world.
It became known as UPI when the UP merged in 1958 with the International News Service, which was founded in 1909 by William Randolph Hearst.
journalism.wikia.com /wiki/United_Press_International   (154 words)

  
 United Press International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States.
With roots dating back to 1907, it was a main-stay in the press world and one of the three biggest news agencies, along with the Associated Press and Reuters.
Founded in the 1930's was "Ocean Press", a news service for ocean liners comprised of copy from United Press and later United Press International.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Press_International   (1689 words)

  
 Can Aristide's Tale Be True?
Looking to the United States and other international allies for support, the embattled leader finds none, just encouragement to step down for the good of his impoverished, conflict-wracked nation.
Others surrounded him nodding in agreement: It was the United States that took away Haiti's first democratically elected president in its 200-year history.
The same United States that helped restore him to power in 1994 after a military coup, whisked him away a decade later.
www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0317-06.htm   (1291 words)

  
 Military Chiefs: Post-War Plan Lacking
While the tenuous security situation in Iraq gets the most international attention, U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Iraq report that security can not be separated out from the lack of basic services like sewage, water and electricity, the slow pace of self-governance, and the still stagnant economy.
Aligning those aspects of Iraq reconstruction is not an inherently military job but much of the responsibility for it has fallen into the military's collective lap, in part because it is the only U.S. institution with a presence in much of the country, and the personnel to implement reconstruction projects.
A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C, charts five major indicators of progress in Iraq and shows that all are in the "danger zone," with the availability of health care actually declining over the last six months.
www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_plan_111804,00.html   (609 words)

  
 Home
The international community recognized Latvia’s independence on January 26, 1921, and nine months later Latvia was admitted to the League of Nations.
B-erzinvs points out, “Latvia follows the principal of the United States, that the national banks and the Central Bank are operating totally independently from the investors and parliament.”
Latvia also happens to have quite extensive natural underground gas storing facilities, which allows it to become linked up to various international pipeline projects.” She comments, “The restructuring of the economy is continuing.
www.unitedinternationalpress.com /Latvia/lat_i.html   (1004 words)

  
 United Press International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The five-year study, by Beat Lutz of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, and his German and Italian colleagues, revealed a previously unknown component of that job -- snuffing out terrifying memories as part of the body's fear-coping mechanism.
Anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental health diseases, costing the United States some $46 billion a year in direct and indirect health-care expenses.
Another 5.2 million Americans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, characterized by emotional numbness and denial in the wake of extreme psychological stress brought on by war, violence, childhood abuse, sexual attack or serious accident, followed by months or years of recurring nightmares, "flashbacks," short-term memory problems, insomnia or heightened sensitivity to sudden noises.
www.marijuana.org /UPI7-31-02.htm   (1040 words)

  
 Election 2004: Lingering Suspicions
Exit polling by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International, which created the National Election Poll for ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, Fox, and NBC, had shown Kerry leading by 3 percentage points in Florida and by 4 points in Ohio.
In Florida's Dixie County, located on the Gulf Coast between Tallahassee and Tampa, 77.5 percent of the 4,988 registered voters are Democrats, 15 percent are Republicans.
Long lines at precincts in the evening and the large number of total provisional ballots cast across the United States also may have influenced the outcome somewhat.
www.commondreams.org /views04/1116-33.htm   (1250 words)

  
 United Press International Commentary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
They are not in fear from the crime and looting that is reported in the press.
Of course, it troubles them that the electricity is not up and running properly yet, garbage is still scattered and the schools are not yet functioning, but these are all items that the Americans are working to fix.
It is my prayer that the United States will have the courage to stay the course -- it may take seven years of direct occupation and decades of limited basing but it will be well worth it.
www.mwarrior.com /upiComment603.htm   (2557 words)

  
 United Press International: Syria's activist crack down continues | The Tharwa project (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
United Press International: Syria's activist crack down continues
The president of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria, Ammar Kurbi, said in a statement faxed to United Press International in Damascus Wednesday that the military tribunal sentenced Mohammed Ghanem on Tuesday for one year in prison that was reduced to six months.
He said Ghanem was convicted of insulting the president of the republic, undermining the state's dignity and inciting sectarian divisions.
www.tharwaproject.com.cob-web.org:8888 /node/10060   (288 words)

  
 Veterans for America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Veterans for America (VFA), formerly the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, is uniting a new generation of veterans with those from past wars to address the causes, conduct and consequences of war.
Veterans for American (VFA), formerly the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, is uniting the new generation of veterans with those from past wars to address the needs of veterans, service members and their families and their larger concerns about the impact of war.
An advocacy and humanitarian organization, VFA is committed to advancing policy and elevating public discourse on the causes, conduct and consequences of war.
www.veteransforcommonsense.org /newsArticle.asp?id=1542   (1180 words)

  
 United Press International: Recent Research Suggests ...
Yet there is one important point that is often forgotten in transportation discussions.
Buses have a terrible image problem in the United States.
Someone once said, "Show me a man who rides a bus at 30 and I will show you a failure." It is partly for this reason that buses are so much more expensive than private cars.
www.mattwelch.com /Press/UPImead.htm   (802 words)

  
 MediaChannel.org - REPORTS | UPI and Moon (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Unfortunately for him, at just about the last minute a bankruptcy judge rejected the bid by the fabulously wealthy religious broadcaster and Christian Coalition founder, and instead ruled that United Press International (UPI), one of the preeminent news wire services, would be sold to a group of Middle Eastern investors.
Several press accounts have provided a sneak preview into what Moon may be up to.
Judging from the past record, calling it Unification Press International may not be far off the mark.
www.mediachannel.org.cob-web.org:8888 /originals/upi-moon.shtml   (777 words)

  
 AEGiS-UPI: Increasing manganese levels inhibit HIV
Further research determined increasing manganese also lowers the activity of HIV's reverse transcriptase, which could block replication of the virus and help prevent it from causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
If drugs could be developed that increase manganese levels, it would be a novel approach to treating HIV, Jef Boeke, professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University and principal investigator in the study, told United Press International in a phone interview.
Reproduction of this article (other than one copy for personal reference) must be cleared through United Press International, Permissions Desk, 1510 H St. N.W. Washington DC 2005.
www.aegis.com /news/upi/2002/UP020408.html   (709 words)

  
 U.K. Minister Lied Over CIA Flights
The well-placed source said the Foreign Office "totally accepts" that the United States used British airfields to transfer prisoners abroad for interrogation, and is "extremely worried" about the political consequences.
However, her references to prohibitions on such treatment under the United Nations Convention Against Torture were hailed as a shift in the position of the United States, which has in the past contended that such conventions do not apply to "illegal enemy combatants" detained as part of the war on terror.
After some serious differences, Britain and the United States appear to be once again moving towards a common viewpoint on the best strategy to bring peace and stability to Iraq.
www.spacewar.com /news/terrorwar-05zzzzzy.html   (1096 words)

  
 Bin Laden family allowed 9/11 leave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The bin Laden family were granted extraordinary White House privileges to fly out of U.S. airspace following the attacks of Sept. 11th, 2001.
Former White House counter terrorism expert Richard Clarke told Vanity Fair the Bush administration decided to allow a group of Saudis to fly out of U.S. airspace just after Sept. 11-- a time when access to the United States was still restricted and required special government approval.
According to the magazine's sources, at least four flights with about 140 Saudis, including roughly two-dozen members of the bin Laden family, flew to Saudi Arabia that week without even being interviewed or interrogated by the FBI.
www.prisonplanet.com /030903binladen1.html   (167 words)

  
 A Daily Briefing on Iran: Ominously Misguided   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
But some leading member states, France and Germany, in particular, should have threatened to support the expulsion of Iran from the UN for violating its commitment as a member nation to 'refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state;' that did not happen.
The European Community, Russia, and the United States in particular should take special heed of what has been said and not done and do what they must if they chose to diminish the potential of regional disaster.
Alon Ben-Meir is professor of international relations at the Center for Global affairs at NYU and is the Middle East Project Director at the World Policy Institute, New York.
regimechangeiran.blogspot.com /2005/11/ominously-misguided.html   (1458 words)

  
 Space Race II: Not NASA's Space Program
When the United States launched its first astronaut into space, it chose the exact altitude that SpaceShipOne is heading toward: 62 miles above Earth, an even 100 kilometers.
Rutan has spent several times the amount of the X Prize award to develop SpaceShipOne -- his sole backer is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen -- and though the prospects for Rutan's competitors to win the race are dimming, none are dropping out.
As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of by United Press International.
www.spacedaily.com /news/xprize-04f.html   (1137 words)

  
 SPACEWAR.com - Military Space News, Technology and Politics (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Christopher Hill, the chief US negotiator with the communist state, said he was still optimistic that six-nation disarmament talks would resume by the end of the year, even though there was "a lot of work to do".
United Nations atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Thursday that inspectors were ready to return to North Korea if planned six-nation disarmament talks produced a deal.
AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International.
www.spacewar.com.cob-web.org:8888   (1285 words)

  
 DOD Now Eyes Lariam In Suicides
Winkenwerder said 21 Army soldiers from units assigned to the operation have committed suicide.
James B. Peake told the panel the Army is investigating another five deaths in Iraq as possible suicides, along with six deaths among soldiers in Iraq who returned to the United States and then killed themselves.
Four of the 21 soldiers who committed suicide in Iraq or Kuwait came from units that took Lariam, the Pentagon health officials said Wednesday.
military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_lariam_022604,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl   (862 words)

  
 A Daily Briefing on Iran: Iran in the Spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The United States and the international community remain highly concerned by Iran's intentions to attain nuclear capability, come what may. As Tehran pursues its aim to join the nuclear club, it is slowly but surely isolating itself from the rest of the world.
Burns pointed out the fact the United States "has no relationship as, unique, complex and difficult as it has with Iran." The United States, said Burns, has had no significant connection with the government of Iran since 1979.
In September, Ahmadinejad defied the international community when he appeared before the United Nations in New York to announce Iran would pursue a nuclear future against the will of the rest of the world.
regimechangeiran.blogspot.com /2005/12/iran-in-spotlight.html   (1275 words)

  
 United Press International: Jewish Web site sparkles, starves
United Press International: Jewish Web site sparkles, starves
It has perspectives and information available nowhere else, and in an age when we're all drowning in too much information, JWR offers something that is actually worth reading."
"Jolkovsky is a genius," comedian-columnist Jackie Mason told United Press International.
www.jewishworldreview.com /press/2002-06-01upi   (2538 words)

  
 United Press International Radio Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United Press International (UPI) was the first wire service to start its own radio news network.
In the early 1960s it began offering a 4-and-a-half minute newscast at the top of the hour.
It is the model that former rival wire service Associated Press uses for its radio network today.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Press_International_Radio_Network   (133 words)

  
 Cold War Not Over
But that was before Sept. 11, 2001, before Iran's desires to join the nuclear club became public knowledge, and before the United States began thinking of positioning missile batteries in former European Soviet satellite states, and in Britain.
But a senior Polish diplomat in Washington told United Press International he was not aware of any such deals.
Regardless of the reasons pushing the United States to deploy interceptors in former Soviet satellite states, the fact is that it will not be well received in Moscow.
www.spacewar.com /reports/Cold_War_Not_Over.html   (1055 words)

  
 Untimely Thoughts: UPI - United Press International
For most observers, attacking and driving Yukos into bankruptcy, particularly as petroleum markets are experiencing volatility, is irrational for both Russia's domestic and international interests.
Then last week, Alexei Miller, the head of Russia's energy giant Gazprom, not only denied a deal had been agreed, but Gazprom's position significantly upped the ante: Ukraine must pay market prices for imported natural gas from Russia and be reasonably compensated for transit of natural gas through its territory supplying European markets.
MOSCOW, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Ukraine's March 2006 parliamentary election campaign is underway with the orange camp divided and the political party leading in the polls, headed by ex-prime minister and former presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych, positioned to become the country's political powerbroker.
www.untimely-thoughts.com /index.html?paper=12   (1263 words)

  
 United Press International, Inc. information and related industry information from Hoover's
United Press International, Inc. information and related industry information from Hoover's
Covering breaking news has broken the bank at United Press International (UPI).
It merged with International News Service (founded by Randolph Hearst) to become UPI in 1958.
www.hoovers.com /upi/--ID__47948--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (379 words)

  
 Cat And Mouse Game Over Iran
A CentCom official told United Press International that in the event of a real military strikes, U.S. military forces would be using jamming, deception, and physical attack of Iran's sensors and its Command, Control and Intelligence (C3 systems).
In addition to the air strikes on allegedly Iranian nuclear weapons sites, the second aim of the operation is to secure the support in Iran of those "who view U.S. policy of hostility towards Iran's clerics with favor," he said.
The United States is also attempting to erect a covert infrastructure in Iran able to support U.S. efforts, this source said.
www.spacedaily.com /news/iran-05c.html   (1321 words)

  
 United Press International - - Welcome to UPI
United Press International - - Welcome to UPI
Since 1907, United Press International (UPI) has been a leading provider of critical information to media outlets, businesses, governments and researchers worldwide.
Copyright © 2005 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved
about.upi.com   (60 words)

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