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Unmarked KLA mines menace Richard Norton-Taylor Thursday June 17, 1999 Civilians and K-For troops face a serious threat from unmarked mines laid by the Kosovo Liberation Army, whose leaders may have no idea where they are, it emerged yesterday. Major Andy Philips, a bomb disposal expert from 33 Regiment Royal Engineers, said both sides had been cooperative, but there were no reliable records of KLA minefields. "The main KLA elements are cooperating, but we don't know what fringe elements have been out there, and we don't know what they have put out. And what they have put out they ...

Some time ago James Carville, the meanest of Bill Clinton's junkyard dogs, said of Sen. Bob Smith, R-New Hampshire, who's running for president, that, though Carville disagreed with Smith's positions, the senator deserved credit for the sincerity of his beliefs. Because that was the only time I've heard Carville speak positively of any Republican except his wife, I took the time to watch Smith give a speech and answer questions at the National Press Club on C-Span. It was the first time I had seen him except on news clips, and I was impressed enough to re-register to vote. ...

A rural Virginia congressman has proposed a one-sentence amendment to pending gun control legislation in the House that would repeal the District's ban on handgun ownership, gutting the city's 23-year-old gun laws. The measure, scheduled for a vote this afternoon, was slipped without notice to District officials into a stack of other amendments approved Tuesday night by the House Rules Committee for consideration in the debate on national gun control legislation. Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. (D), a maverick conservative Democrat first elected to Congress in 1997, said he introduced the amendment because he believes the District's prohibition on handgun ...

Best Anti-Hoax Resources It ain't so much the things we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.         – Artemus Ward Email hoaxes have become so prevalent that they're regarded in some quarters as a threat to network integrity comparable to that of actual computer viruses. At the U.S. Department of Energy, a group called the Computer Incident Advisory Capability monitors and debunks phony virus alerts and chain letters as an integral part of its overall security program. "They're both hoaxes," said spokesman David Schwoegler in a recent interview, "and they have the ...

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Fingerprint links Resendez-Ramirez to teacher's killing East Texas killing also investigated By STEPHEN JOHNSON Copyright 1999 Houston Chronicle A fingerprint matching that of suspected serial killer Rafael Resendez-Ramirez's has been recovered from slain Houston teacher Noemi Dominguez's car, investigators said Wednesday. As the search continued for Resendez-Ramirez, the deaths of a father and daughter in Illinois on Tuesday and the slaying of an East Texas woman last October were also being examined Wednesday for possible connection to the fugitive. Resendez-Ramirez, 38, is now linked by physical evidence to the deaths of five people in Texas and a man in ...

Paris, Thursday, June 17, 1999First Step Toward Peace Is Eradicating HungerBy Jimmy Carter International Herald TribuneWASHINGTON - When the Cold War ended 10 years ago, we expected an era of peace. What we got instead was a decade of war. The conflict in Kosovo is only the latest to embroil the international community. Conflicts have raged in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia in the 1990s, often involving the entire international community in costly relief operations and peacekeeping missions, frequently under hostile conditions. These conflicts - mostly civil wars - have been extraordinarily brutal, with most victims being children, ...

Paris, Thursday, June 17, 1999Time for a Big Debate on EuropeBy Giles Merritt International Herald TribuneBRUSSELS - The low turnout in this week's elections for the European Parliament conveyed a realistic assessment by voters of the negligible power they have to influence EU politics. The politics of whether and how the EU should pursue its goal of ''ever closer union'' needs a radical overhaul. This overhaul will not be made by the EU's present decision-making mechanisms. They are too conservative and self-interested to be capable of more than just tinkering with political structures conceived almost 50 years ago to ...

North Korean UN Ambassador - Korean War II Imminent North Korea Embassy - Democratic People's Republic of Korea PERMANENT MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS 820 Second Avenue, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10017 Tel: (212) 972-3105/3106 Fax; (212} 972-3154 June 11, 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. President: The US-led NATO's indiscriminate air strike against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in defiance of recognized international law is an act of wanton aggression on a sovereign state, which gives rise to deep concern of the international community at present. In 1950s, the United States abused the name of the United Nations in the aggressive ...

Attention all Seattle-area activists! Al Gore is going to be in Seattle on Friday. Please...if anyone can come out and protest, please do so! It is important that we seize this opportunity. More info is available at Common Sense Northwest

WASHINGTON — Senior sources in the Justice Department's Campaign Finance Task Force tell Fox News they plan to turn down a chance to retry Democratic fund-raiser Maria Hsia on Federal tax fraud charges. A mistrial was declared last week in Los Angeles when the jury deadlocked. The Judge gave prosecutors until Thursday to decide what to do. Hsia faces four counts of income tax evasion. Hsia faces a later trial in Washington, D.C. on charges of funneling illegal foreign contributions to the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign through monks and nuns at a Buddhist Temple in California. She is also charged ...

What is the name of that "noise" that Arab women make when they are in the news. Not to be disrespectful but it sounds similar to locust when one will start and then another and then not a buzzing sound but some dam high pitched sort of wailing sound? Is there a "name" for what they do?

KLA comment on Russian troops is a "declaration of war": Moscow MOSCOW, June 16 (AFP) - The designation of Russian peacekeepers by the Kosovo Liberation Army as an "enemy force" was a "declaration of war" on Moscow's Kosovo contingent, a foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday. "It is an unprecedented declaration, it can only be taken as a declaration of war on Russian peacekeeping forces," said the official, who asked not to be named.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Two Saudi men were beheaded Wednesday for crimes including drug trafficking, robbery and raping several boys, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Saud bin Salem al-Matrafi and Ali bin Ahmed al-Huzaify were executed in the holy city of Mecca in western Saudi Arabia. The statement did not say when the crimes were committed or when the men were arrested. So far this year, 41 people have been executed. Last year, 29 were beheaded. Saudi Arabia's Islamic courts impose death sentences for murder, rape, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Executions are usually carried out ...

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) — Thirteen Protestants who angered residents of an Indian village in southern Mexico by trying to build a new church have been arrested, officials said Wednesday. The group was arrested Tuesday in Mitziton, about 10 miles southeast of San Cristobal de las Casas, said Gustavo Moscoso Zeneteno, Chiapas state secretary for Indian affairs. They were turned over to local authorities in neighboring Flores Magon, where they live. The arrests were another episode in a long history of religious conflict in the region. Many residents see their unique mixture of Catholicism and traditional ...

More incitement By URI DAN (June 17) - Yasser Arafat would have done well to visit the destruction and graves in Kosovo before hurrying to call, as he did this week, on Europe and NATO to act for the Palestinians and against Israel, as they did against Yugoslavia. If he were to visit Kosovo, maybe Arafat would understand that there are no victors, only losers. He should learn from Pristina's fate. I was there, and I saw the corpses of Serbs, murdered by Albanian Moslems as the KLA terrorists entered Kosovo, in an entry coordinated with NATO forces. Contrary to ...

Thursday, June 17, 1999 'Hawkish Western leaders' berated WILLY WO-LAP LAM Beijing's strategists have warned against the "trigger-happiness" of the younger generation of Western politicians. The leadership of President Jiang Zemin, however, has underscored the importance of maintaining ties with the United States and Europe to procure capital and technology. Western diplomats in Beijing yesterday quoted an internal paper as highlighting the hawkish tendencies of Western leaders in their late 40s and early 50s, including US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The paper said since these leaders had no personal experience of World War II, ...

An appeal for repeal Wednesday June 16, 1999 Amendment II: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. TWENTY years ago, I asked Richard Nixon what he thought of gun control. His on-the-record reply: "Guns are an abomination." Free from fear of gun owners' retaliation at the polls, he favored making handguns illegal and requiring licenses for hunting rifles. Last week, when ABC's Charles Gibson asked Bill Clinton why he was supporting only small restrictions on guns, our current president, also ...

DEMOLISH THE MYTH By Pritish Nandy Rediff On The Net June 16, 1999 The skirmish in Kargil http://www.rediff.com/news/kargil.htm has served one purpose. It has showed up the real difference between India and Pakistan. The difference in the way we see each other. While we both talk about peace, Pakistan is always ready for war even though it is clever enough to know that it can never win one. Why? Why should a nation be ready for a war when it knows it cannot win it? The reason is simple. Pakistan has grown up on a self-sustained myth that it ...

CLINTON-GORE WAR ON GUNS CONTINUES The Clinton Gore Administration assault on gun owners' rights has continued and broadened into new areas. The White House has supported an attempt by the FBI to impose a tax on the sale of each firearm, an effort that failed only due to NRA-ILA efforts. The Administration also supports an FBI plan to maintain records of gun purchases for up to six months, in direct violation of a prohibition on maintaining records included in the Brady Act and the Firearms owners' Protection Act. This action has prompted the NRA to file a law suit ...