WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his pledge to close the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the impediments that have thwarted him thus far remain.
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Sheriff Michael Hennessey is planning to seek a court order to force doctors at San Francisco General Hospital to feed a patient charged with a double murder and end his hunger strike.Hong Ri Wu, 57, who is being held in San Francisco General Hospital’s acute care facility, stopped eating three weeks ago, Hennessey said. Wu is accused of shooting and killing in January a man and woman who ran a Fisherman’s Wharf business that competed with Wu’s.
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Venezuelan students' 23-day hunger strike has succeeded, for the time being, in putting the brakes on President Hugo Chavez’s push for dictatorship. Chavez has already released seven of the 27 political prisoners whom the students claimed were in prison on trumped-up charges, merely for opposing the president's regime.
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