Daybook The Washington Times | SENATE | No Scheduled Events. | HOUSE | No Scheduled Events. | GENERAL AGENDA | April 15 - 18 POPE BENEDICT XVI | Highlights: | 8:30 a.m. Departs Andrews AFB en route John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. | April 16 - 18 PRIME MINISTER G...
Latin America Leaders to Discuss Economy Houston Chronicle TOOLS | CANCUN, Mexico - Latin America's role in a slowing world economy is up for debate this week at a top-drawer forum set to draw at least seven presidents, dozens of government ministers and hundreds of world business leaders. | Attendees at the...
Bush Bullies Congress CounterPunch It's now crunch time for Bush and his Colombia free trade agreement: the President has sent the deal to Congress, thereby forcing a vote within 90 legislative days. | "The need for this agreement is too urgent -- the stakes for our national secu...
The US Dilemma Over Chavez Time Magazine | Laptop computers packed with evidence allegedly tying Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez to Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels pose a dilemma for the Bush Administration: The fact that the FARC is listed by Washington as a terrorist organization means the laptop data provide cause for the U.S. to add Chavez's government to its list of internat...
Oil prices retreat from last week's record high San Diego LONDON - Oil prices retreated Monday from last week's record close near $126 a barrel as the dollar strengthened against the euro and yen. | Light, sweet crude for June delivery dropped $1.32 to $124.64 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midafternoon in Europe. | On Friday, the contract broke above $126 for the fi...
