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d in the comforts allowed him as head of state in a nation with some of the largest oil reserves outside the Middle East. He traveled in a luxurious Airbus A-319. In one jaunt around Venezuela in 2007 with the actor Sean Penn, he roamed the plane regaling foreign journalists with tales from his days as

at New Hark gimes /..hircti 5. 23 3 A Polarizing Figure Who Led a Movement By SIMON ROMERO CARACAS, Venezuela — Hugo Chavez, who died on Tuesday at 58, rose from poverty in a dirt-floor adobe house to unrivaled influence in Venezuela as its president, consol

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n aircraft standards are adequate to protect passengers in the event of a forced water lapding. In the case of US Airways Flight 1549, the Airbus A320 suffered a rupture near the tailcone that sent water gushing into the cabin after its forced landing on the Hudson River. All 155 aboard m

. because all too often the United States starts by dictating" An admirable sentiment. It applies to everyone — Iran, Russia. Cuba, Syria, even Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secre- tary of State Hillary Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: "a