Week of January 23, 2007
A Senate committee approves a resolution to oppose a troop buildup in Iraq. The
resolution says the buildup is not in the national interest of the country.
President Bush defends a tough new administration policy on Iran - that U.S.
troops are now cleared to seek out and kill agents from Tehran who put lives at
stack.
Seeking to regain political ground lost to the new congressional Democrats,
President Bush call for bipartisan action on energy and other domestic issues.
The President still defends his decision to send more troops to Iraq.
Baghdad - Iraqi and American forces kill several hundred gunmen who were
planning to attack a Shiite Muslim shrine.
Presidential hopeful Hilary Rodham
Clinton is in Iowa for her “listening” tour.
100,000 antiwar protesters coverage on
the National Mall, apparently galvanized
by opposition to increase the number of
troops in Iraq by President Bush.
Massachusetts’s senator John F. Kenney
announces he would not seek the
presidency in 2008.
The newest camera on the Hubble
Space Telescope is shut down and may
be permanently damaged. It’s also the
one most used by scientists.
Wal-mart agrees to pay more than $33 million to tens of thousands of workers
who were short-changed on overtime wages during the last five years.
Passing - e. Howard Hunt - the mastermind of the 1972 Watergate break-in. He
was 88.
Entertainment news-
Paris Hilton (25) is placed on 36 months probation and ordered to pay fines after
pleading no contest to alcohol related reckless driving.
Technology -
