Chavez to the rescue again? and Nat'l Guard call up...

From truthout.org :

FOCUS | Government Short Money to Help Poor Pay Heating Bills

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102107Y.shtml

Tom Dogget, reporting for Reuters, says "about 30 million low-income American households who will need help paying heating bills this winter from a US government program will be left in the cold because of a lack of funding for the program."

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FOCUS | National Guard Faces Call-Ups for 2008, '09

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102107Z.shtml

Ann Scott Tyson of the Washington Post reports that the "Pentagon this week plans to alert at least seven National Guard units to be ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008 and 2009 as the military's reserve forces are increasingly called upon to relieve the strain on active-duty troops."

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