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Odd News // 1 decade ago

UPI Almanac for Monday, Nov. 24, 2008.

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UPI Almanac for Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Atlantic Eye: A deceptively quiet Golan

A tour bus perched atop the Golan Heights waits for tourists taking pictures of UN Peace-Keeping forces below. A young man hugs and kisses his girlfriend as someone takes their photo. All seem oblivious to the Israeli troops massed one kilometer to the South facing a Syrian army just over the hill and out of site to the North. Welcome to the Golan Heights where all is not as it seems.

Odd News // 1 decade ago

UPI almanac for Friday, Nov. 24, 2006.

Odd News // 1 decade ago

Today is Thursday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2005 with 37 to follow.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Apology for Czechoslovakian invasion

Former Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski apologized Sunday for his country's role in the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Czech to compensate 1968 Soviet victims

The Czech Republic will pay compensation to Czech victims of violent Soviet suppression between 1968 and 1991, The Independent reported Thursday. The government said the highest amount of $6,500 would go to the survivors of those killed, most of them in

Odd News // 1 decade ago

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 24, the 329th day of 2004 with 37 to follow.

Odd News // 2 decades ago

Today is Monday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2003 with 37 to follow.

Odd News // 2 decades ago

Today is Sunday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2002 with 37 to follow.

Dubček in 1989

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1948-1970) Social Democratic Party of Slovakia (1992)

Alexander Dubček (November 27, 1921 – November 7, 1992) was a Slovak politician and briefly leader of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969), famous for his attempt to reform the Communist regime (Prague Spring). Later, after the overthrow of the Communist government in 1989, he was Speaker of the federal Czechoslovak parliament.

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