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The disloyalties of the Hollywood types due to their socialist sympathies shows that the so-called “blacklist” was justified. The socialist beliefs of Hollywood is what is really shameful.

LOS ANGELES - The entertainment industry must not blacklist people who speak out against war with Iraq (news - web sites), the Screen Actors Guild (news - web sites) said.

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"Even a hint of the blacklist must never again be tolerated in this nation," the statement added.

The reference was to the Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s, when actors and writers suspected of harboring pro-Communist sentiments were barred from working.

"During this shameful period, our own industry prostrated itself before smear campaigns and witch hunters rather than standing on the principles articulated in the nation's fundamental documents," the statement said.

A British skier on holiday in Colorado was today charged with manslaughter after the death of another man on the slopes.

Robert Wills, 31, was arrested after a collision which left 56-yearold Richard Henrichs dead in Breckenridge on Sunday.

According to the victim's son, Mr Wills ran into his father, causing him to hit a tree. In the resulting collision, Mr Henrichs suffered massive head injuries and a broken hip.

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He died several hours later in hospital outside Denver. The Briton is being held in the Summit County Jail while the district attorney's office considers charges. Under Colorado law, ski accidents can become a criminal prosecution if it can be proved rules governing skiing conduct were broken.

Like most other American resorts, skiers and snowboarders in Breckenridge are required by law to avoid hitting anyone below or in front of them.

CEBU, Philippines — Islamist terrorists in the southern Philippines who have killed two American hostages in recent years say they are receiving money from Iraqis close to President Saddam Hussein.

Hamsiraji Sali, a local commander of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf on the remote southern island of Basilan, says he is getting nearly $20,000 a year from supporters in Iraq.

LONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain's leading scientists spoke on Tuesday of his fears of genetic discrimination if people are not prepared for the medical advances expected in the next two decades.

In a speech at a meeting on genetic testing, Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Prize-winning chief executive of the charity Cancer Research UK, said individual genome sequencing showing susceptibility for diseases could be common in 20 years.

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Nurse added that American scientist Craig Venter is already offering wealthy people the opportunity to buy a map of all their genes for what he referred to as a staggering $710,000.

An air steward has been arrested over claims he raped an air passenger.

The 36-year-old was allegedly attacked on a flight as she returned from holiday in Mauritius.

The steward works for Air Mauritius, police said.

SAN FRANCISCO - The city's police chief has gone on medical leave, days after he and six commanders were indicted on charges of hindering an investigation into a brawl involving off-duty officers, the mayor's office said Tuesday.

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Ten Most Dishonorable Americans | Gullibility and Ignorance of Vietnam Demonstrators 
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1. Brian Becker
2. Michael Moore
3. Danny Glover
4. John Walker Lindh
5. Oliver Stone
6. Rep. James McDermott, D-WA
7. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-CA
8. Stanley Cohen
9. Lynne Stewart
10. Leslie Cagan

Three decades later I have no pride in the memory of those protests. Rather, I wonder how it was possible to be so mistaken about real politics and world events. My political gullibility is an embarrassment. The so-called peace movement had completely deluded itself, conveniently ignoring any evidence that countered its agenda. How was it not possible to have seen that the North was a convenient tool for the Soviets to bleed the US and that it represented one of the most repressive old-line communist dictatorships since Stalin? What were we marching for three decades ago? Certainly not for the right of North Vietnam to invade neighboring Cambodia, killing tens of thousands of civilians in a brutal war of submission. Nor did we raucously protest so that two million Cambodians could be exterminated under the Khmer Rouge. Not many of us would have been so enthusiastic in Sproul Plaza had we known that the North Vietnamese secret police would imprison, torture, and kill tens of thousands of political prisoners in a futile, but barbarous, attempt to “cleanse” the country of western influence.

None of the tragedies that happened after the US withdrawal from Southeast Asia should have come as a surprise. But they did to those of us in the antiwar movement because we had blinded ourselves to any reality.

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