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June 27, 2008 The Insider: Horrific murder begets political debate

The county Democratic Party is hosting a "Unite for Change" celebration, one of many happening across the nation, at the Tom Lantos Memorial Democratic ...

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Source: San Mateo County Times, CA


June 26, 2008 Why it could be a record year for Jews in the US Congress

The death of Congressman Tom Lantos, one of the most distinguished members of the House and a leading voice on human rights and on the strengthening of ...

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Source: Jewish Chronicle, UK


June 26, 2008 Congress must renew Bush's AIDS relief plan

Rep. Tom Lantos, the longtime congressman from San Mateo who died earlier this year, was a major sponsor of both the 2003 bill and the one up for renewal ...

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Source: Contra Costa Times, CA


June 26, 2008 America set to seek its pound of flesh

... here on Indo-Iranian relations since Tom Lantos, the late chairman of what was then the House of Representatives International Relations Committee, ...

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Source: Calcutta Telegraph, India


June 26, 2008 Lantos' archives donated

By Matt Krupnick / Bay Area News Group UC-Berkeley's Bancroft Library will house the archives of the late Rep. Tom Lantos, the San Mateo Democrat and ...

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Source: San Mateo Daily News, CA


June 25, 2008 Can Malaria Be Eradicated In Africa?

Furthermore, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 13 2008 gave approval to "Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde Global Leadership on HIV/AIDS, ...

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Source: Ici Cemac, Cameroon


June 25, 2008 HEARING ON SUBJECT OF GENOCIDE HELD ON CAPITOL HILL

... as well as the late Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), House Foreign Affairs Chairman and House Congressional Caucus on Human Rights Co-Chair, ...

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Source: DeFacto Agency, Armenia


June 25, 2008 WEDNESDAY MIDDAY NEWS ROUNDUP

University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library is now the owner of the papers of the late Congressman Tom Lantos, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, ...

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Source: CBS 5, CA


June 25, 2008 BERKELEY: PAPERS OF LATE CONGRESSMAN LANTOS HEADED TO UC BERKELEY ...

University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library is now the owner of the papers of the late Congressman Tom Lantos, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, ...

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Source: CBS 5, CA


June 25, 2008 Lantos papers arrive at Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley has begun receiving the papers of Rep. Tom Lantos, a San Mateo Democrat who died of esophageal cancer on Feb. ...

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle,  USA


June 24, 2008 Late congressman's archives donated to UC Berkeley library

By Matt Krupnick UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library will house the archives of the late Rep. Tom Lantos, the San Mateo Democrat and Holocaust survivor who died ...

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Source: Contra Costa Times, CA


June 24, 2008 UC Berkeley acquires Lantos archives

The University of California, Berkeley has acquired the papers of the late Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress. ...

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle,  USA


June 24, 2008 Tom Lantos archive donated to the Bancroft Library

A Capitol Hill veteran, Moazed met Lantos when he arrived in Washington, DC, in 1980 and she was working for Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-Conn.). ...

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Source: UC Berkeley, CA


June 24, 2008 Tom Lantos' archive goes to Cal's Bancroft Library

The papers of Tom Lantos, a longtime California congressman and Holocaust survivor who died in February, have been given to the Bancroft Library at the ...

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Source: Bizjournals.com, NC


June 23, 2008 Benjamin Carson Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

Joining Carson in receiving the 2008 awards were Anthony Fauci, MD; Tom Lantos; Gen. Peter Pace, US Marine Corps (Ret.); Donna Shalala; and Laurence ...

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Source: Johns Hopkins Gazette, MD


June 23, 2008 The Brass Ring: A multibillionaire`s relentless quest for global ...

(Representative Tom Lantos, then the highest-ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, had introduced a resolution opposing China’s ...

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Source: Israel e News, Israel


June 23, 2008 Zionist at heart

He has now slipped into the large shoes of Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the US House of Representatives, after he died from cancer in ...

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Source: Jerusalem Post, Israel


June 22, 2008 Student nurses make impact on HIV

The Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 (HR 5501, A. 3701) will provide ...

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Source: Central Florida Future, FL


June 22, 2008 Medals of Freedom awarded to six civilians for service to nation

When Tom Lantos was 16 years old, Nazi troops occupied his hometown of Budapest. During that bitter occupation, young Tom was active in the resistance. ...

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Source: Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN


June 20, 2008 Bush awards Lantos freedom medal

... the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously, to Tom Lantos, and proud that his loving wife Annette will receive the award on behalf of his family."

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Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY


June 20, 2008 Shalala gets Medal of Freedom

The late US Rep. Tom Lantos of California • Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases • Dr. Benjamin Carson of Johns ...

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Source: MiamiHerald.com, FL


June 20, 2008 China's Overeager American Censors

In January, the late Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) criticized Yahoo!'s decision to give up the identity of dissident journalist Shi Tao to Chinese police in ...

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Source: Forbes, NY


June 20, 2008 Presidential medals go to Lantos, 5 others Peninsula ...

Deb Riechmann, AP President Bush presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, to the late Rep. Tom Lantos and leaders ...

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle,  USA


June 20, 2008 Tom Lantos AIDS bill gets boost

John McCain announced Thursday he will co-sponsor a global AIDS relief bill authored by the late Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo. ...

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Source: Redwood City Daily News, CA


June 20, 2008 A US Senate committee approved a broad range of sanctions against ...

The bill, initiated by the late US Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and passed overwhelmingly last year by the US House of Representatives, was approved Wednesday ...

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Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY


June 20, 2008 Court of Appeals Judge Silberman Receives Presidential Medal of ...

Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the only Holocaust survivor ever to be elected to Congress, received the award posthumously. Some past Medal of Freedom ...

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Source: The BLT, DC


June 19, 2008 Peter Pace among Medal of Freedom winners

Annette Lantos accepted the award on behalf of her late husband, US Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif, at the ceremony in the East Room of the White House. ...

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Source: Gay.com, CA


June 19, 2008 Bush Awards Six Medal of Freedom

... former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, the late representative Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress; ...

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Source: Christian Broadcasting Network, VA


June 19, 2008 SM&A Congratulates General Peter Pace for Receiving the ...

Tom Lantos was a champion of human rights. The only Holocaust survivor to serve in the Congress, he devoted himself to securing liberty for oppressed people ...

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Source: CNNMoney.com


June 19, 2008 Manmohan Singh's nuke dream coming true?

Historians will regard what we do today as a tidal shift in relations between India and the United States,'' said Tom Lantos, US Representative. ...

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Source: NDTV.com, India


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