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PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post - Nov 26

26 Nov 2006 05:16:30 GMT
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WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - The Washington Post included the following items on its front page on Nov. 26. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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BAGHDAD -- In the aftermath of one of the deadliest spasms of violence, a new level of fear and foreboding has gripped Baghdad, fueled in part by sectarian text messages and Internet sites, that is deepening tensions in an already divided capital.

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WASHINGTON -- It sounded simple enough on the campaign trail: free the government to negotiate lower drug prices and use the savings to plug a big gap in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit. But as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress, they are struggling to keep that promise.

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FORT STEWART, Ga. -- As a gray dawn broke, hundreds of 3rd Infantry Division soldiers gathered on a Georgia marching ground this month and listened to a long list of names of fallen comrades who have died in Iraq.

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TBILSI, Georgia -- The U.S. Secret Service and Georgian police are investigating an international counterfeiting operation that stretches from a separatist enclave in this former Soviet republic to Maryland, where fake $100 bills have been found, according to senior officials and investigators.

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