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Iraqis are looking forward to Sunday's elections, but some fear possible
chaos. The vote is Iraq's second nationwide election and comes at a vastly
different time than the first in 2005. US troops have all but ___1___ from
the streets but attacks continue, and militants have threatened to target voters.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon heads toward the heavily damaged Chile and
the city of Concepcion. Firefighters showed him a 15-storey apartment building
that has split and collapsed killing nine people.
Ban says the international community will provide ____2____, temporary
bridges and other aids.
President Barack Obama is turning up the heat for health care overhaul again, using his
weekly radio and Internet address to try to convince a skeptical public of the
need for his plan. He ____3____ Republicans' calls to start from scratch.
Hundreds of ____4____ and thousands of fans
lined up along Anchorage's Fourth
Avenue for the ceremonial start to the 1100-mile Iditarod Dog Race. The actual
competition starts Sunday.
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