World News 24-08-2004 who: George W Bush what: Calls for ban on adverts knocking rival`s Vietnam record where: Washington DC when: Yesterday snippet: Ads from a campaign group called "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" allege that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his war record in Vietnam, during which he won three Purple Hearts, explains The Scotsman. Kerry had accused Bush of letting the group "do his dirty work" for him, an allegation that seems to have forced the president`s hand - "Senator Kerry served admirably and he ought to be proud of his record," President Bush insisted yesterday. Meanwhile North Korea yesterday called the US leader "an imbecile" and "a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade" in a stream of insults that, thinks The Guardian, "seems to rule out any progress on nuclear disarmament talks before the US presidential elections." [... more]

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