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'Bitter' rhetoric aside, guns are critical issue

Written by BY ED MORALES
Sunday, May 04, 2008
The Star-Ledger

A little more than three weeks ago, before the Democratic campaign rhetoric devolved into Jere miah Wright redux, Sen. Barack Obama's comments about the gun habits of "bitter" people opened him up to criticism from both Republican presumptive nominee John McCain and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

They branded Obama an elitist, out of touch with the American heartland, because he had said some people in more rural areas "cling to guns or religion or antipa thy to people who aren't like them."

UN Warns Darfur War Worsening, With Perhaps 300,000 Dead

by Edith Lederer
Associated Press
4-23-2008

The conflict in Darfur is deteriorating, with full deployment of a new peacekeeping force delayed until 2009 and no prospect of a political settlement for a war that has killed perhaps 300,000 people in five years, U.N. officials said Tuesday.

In grim reports to the Security Council, the United Nations aid chief and the representative of the peacekeeping mission said suffering in the Sudanese region is worsening. Tens of thousands more have been uprooted from their homes and food rations to the needy are about to be cut in half, they said.

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