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Sunday, May 12, 2002 Sivan 1, 5762 Israel Time: 09:19 (GMT+3) Efforts to keep Likud from embarrassing PM By Yossi Verter The Likud Central Committee will convene today at Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium with a vote on a resolution against the establishment of a Palestinian state topping the agenda. Adoption of the resolution by the committee would be in direct contradiction to the position of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Frantic last-minute efforts were made at the weekend to find a compromise that would prevent an embarrassment for Sharon. The prime minister's confidantes, headed by his son, Omri, held several consultations...

Since information about terrorist arrests is coming fast and furious, a couple of freepers have expressed interest in compiling a database to keep track of information about who these people are and what is known about them.I am not a researcher and I have no idea how to set up such a database. I have been keeping my own file, however, for the last few days and am happy to share it. The list is mostly of names that have come up in the current investigation, but there are also some that I came across, who are not directly related ...

Federal Appeals Court Eases Chicago Police Spying Curbs By Mike Robinson Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) - Police can more easily monitor criminals after a federal appeals court on Thursday lifted restrictions imposed on the Chicago force two decades ago to stop mistreatment of Communists and other suspected subversives. Among the changes under the ruling: police will be allowed to investigate people photographed near crime scenes, keep records of suspects' gang affiliations and keep files on known associates of organized crime figures. The city's "Red Squad," established in the 1920s, was designed to keep tabs on radical groups then viewed ...

Aussie scientists stumble across the Doomsday Bug PARIS, Jan 10 (AFP) - Australian gene engineers accidentally created a mouse virus that kills every one of its victims by wrecking their immune system, a discovery with the potential for making the ultimate terrorist weapon, New Scientist reports. The killer bug was invented quite inadvertently, while the researchers were trying to create a contraceptive vaccine for mice as a pest control, the British weekly reports in next Saturday's issue. They inserted into a mousepox virus a gene that creates large amounts of interleukin 4 (IL-4), a naturally-occurring molecule that produces antibodies in ...

United States Takes Steps to Pay Its U.N. Debt By Evelyn Leopold WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms promised on Tuesday to release $584 million that the United States owes the United Nations (news - web sites) but was noncommittal on whether Washington would pay its debts in the future. Some 188 U.N. member governments agreed late in December to reduce America's dues for the first time in 27 years, a move that may end the standoff with Congress and help the United Nations pay for basic programs. The sums approved were close but not precisely what Congress ...

Here is a list of links to official state election web pages for individual states. I found it on the New Mexico state page; and you can click on the source link above to get to that page if any of these listed links don't work:Alabama: http://www.sos.state.al.us/election/election.htm Alaska: http://www.gov.state.ak.us/ltgov/elections/homepage.html American Samoa: Arizona: http://www.sosaz.com Arkansas: http://www.sosweb.state.ar.us/elect.html California: http://www.ss.ca.gov/ Colorado: http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/sos/elections/1998election.html Delaware: http://www.state.de.us/election/index.htm District of Columbia: http://www.dcboee.org Florida: http://election.dos.state.fl.us Georgia: http://www.sos.state.ga.us/elections/default.htm Guam: Hawaii: http://www.state.hi.us/elections Idaho: http://www.idsos.state.id.us/elect/eleindex.htm Illinois: http://www.elections.state.il.us Indiana: http://www.state.in.us/sos/elections/ Iowa: http://www.sos.state.ia.us/elections/elections.html Kansas: http://www.ink.org/public/sos/elewelc.html Kentucky: http://www.sos.state.ky.us/ElecDiv.htm Louisiana: http://www.laelections.org Maine: http://www.state.me.us/sos/cec/elec/elec.htm#gen96 Maryland: http://www.elections.state.md.us/ Massachusetts: http://www.state.ma.us/sec/ele/eleidx.htm Michigan: http://www.sos.state.mi.us/election/elect.html Minnesota: http://www.sos.state.mn.us/election/index.html Mississippi: http://www.sos.state.ms.us/ Missouri: http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/ ...

Forged Ballot Sparks Criminal Investigation in Florida NewsMax.com Thursday, Nov. 9, 2000 The discovery of forged ballots in northern Florida has set off a probe of what may have been widespread fraud in connection with absentee ballots in the state. Moreover, the suggestion has been made that the U.S. Postal Service in Miami may have been involved. According to a blockbuster story in today’s Pensacola News Journal, the Escambia County state attorney’s office is heading an investigation into whether the forgery is part of a larger scheme to redirect mailed ballots to someone other than the person for whom it ...

The Yemen Times on line keeps its stories in a weekly format. This first story is from the week of Oct. 16 - Oct.22/2000. It can be found hereFront Page Yemen Times 42 - Oct 16 thru Oct 22 2000, Vol X Mystery Unrevealed Death toll caused by the explosion in the USS Cole destroyer increased to 17 while the injured were airlifted for treatment at the U.S. military’ Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. General Charles Moore commander of the Fifth fleet arrived in Aden on Friday and visited the USS Cole. Two other warships arrived on the same ...

New Attack Timeline Surfaces in Cole Investigation By David Brown TIMES STAFF WRITER The attack on the destroyer Cole came an hour earlier than originally reported, and in the midst of the ship’s refueling operation, nearly two hours after it moored, not as it was being tied to the refueling pier, Navy Times has learned. The Cole had been refueling for about 45 minutes when, at 11:18 a.m. local time Oct. 12, an explosive-laden boat pulled alongside and blasted a hole in its port side, according to a timeline obtained by Navy Times. Rear Adm. Stephen Pietropaoli, chief of ...

At 7:20AM EST, CNBC TV Channel is showing Dow Futures down 165, NASD Futures down 21, S&P Futures down 92. I don't know what fair value is running.

The Washington Times www.washtimes.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Britain to allow cloning embryos to get spare parts Rachel Sylvester LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH Published 4/3/00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LONDON — The cloning of human embryos for medical research, which could allow scientists to create spare parts for the body, is expected to be approved by the British government after an inquiry concluded that the potential benefits outweighed the ethical problems. A panel of experts led by Dr. Liam Donaldson, the nation's chief medical officer, has agreed to recommend changes to the law to allow the use of cloned embryos to create tissue to treat the sick. ...

Million Mom March to protest gun violenceWomen to spend Mother's Day in D.C.By Veronica Butts, Staff WriterBlack men did it in 1995. Black women tried it again in Philadelphia two years later.Now get ready for the Million Mom March.On Mother's Day, May 14, a group of women from Hampton Roads will be joining others from across the country in demanding federal laws that protect the nation's youth from gun violence.These moms are asking for nothing less than national licensing of all handgun owners, child safety locks on all new handguns, and stricter enforcement of existing gun laws. Common-sense gun control, ...