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ATHENS, Ga. – The University of Georgia’s first school song wasn’t “Glory Glory to Old Georgia,” the spirited pep tune beloved by generations of Bulldog fans and made famous by UGA’s Redcoat Marching Band.
It was probably a march composed 100 years ago by the first director of a ragtag [...]

By Cindy Saine
Voice of America
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2008 — America’s presidential primary season ends Tuesday after five months with contests in Montana and South Dakota. Hillary Clinton’s campaign says she will not concede nomination to Obama Tuesday evening.
Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are vying for a total of 31 pledged delegates in Montana and [...]

By Suzanne Presto
Voice of America
IRBIL, Iraq — French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner inaugurated a new French diplomatic office in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Sunday evening, the second day of his two-day trip to Iraq.
The French national anthem filled the air in Irbil, as France opened a new consulate office in the capital [...]

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
SINGAPORE, June 1, 2008 – The United States likely will decide “within days” to move four U.S. Navy ships that have been waiting off the coast of Burma for permission from the country’s ruling military junta to provide help to cyclone-stricken residents, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
“No [...]

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines, June 1, 2008 – It takes time, confidence and training to defeat an insurgency, and the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Task Force is making a difference in helping the Philippine military defeat extremists on the island of Mindanao, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2008 – Coalition forces in Iraq captured dozens of terrorism suspects and continued to uncover enemy weapons stockpiles in operations over the past few days, military officials reported.
In operations today:
– Coalition troops captured four men believed to be members of Iranian-backed “special groups” in Baghdad’s Kadhamiyah district. Intelligence sources [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2008 – Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit from Camp Lejeune, N.C., and British forces of Task Force Helmand launched a new operation in the southern portion of Afghanistan’s Helmand province today.
British forces pushed south from one of their forward operating bases to secure routes west of the [...]

Voice of America
U.S. military deaths in Iraq plunged in May to the lowest monthly total since the war began, while Iraqi military and civilian casualties also fell sharply.
The U.S. military said Sunday that 19 U.S. service members were killed in Iraq last month, the lowest number since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
The toll for May [...]

Voice of America
Scott McClellan, former spokesman for U.S. President George Bush, says he should have spoken up sooner about his doubts about the leak of the identity of a U.S. intelligence agent and about the rationale for invading Iraq.
McClellan said on U.S. television Sunday that he blames his failure to do so on youth and [...]