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Sat 07 Jul 2009Zelaya takes symbolic steps
Vowing to return home, ousted President Manuel Zelaya took a few symbolic steps inside Honduras today but backed away from a confrontation with Honduran security forces waiting to arrest him.
In a move described as "reckless" by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the ousted leader in his trademark cowboy hat crossed briefly into Honduras in the small town of Las Manos on the border with Nicaragua.
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