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For Editorial and Discussion use only: Thursday, 17 June 1999 4:25 (GMT) (NOTE: fixing date on elections) (UPI Spotlight) Bush leads Gore in new poll WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) - Texas Gov. George W. Bush owns a substantial lead over Vice President Al Gore in their expected race for president in the 2000 elections. Gore, who formally announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president on Wednesday, actually saw his support slip 10 percent over the last week, the poll commissioned by the Washington Post and ABC News and published Thursday. The poll, taken June 9-13, gives Bush a ...

PRIZREN, Yugoslavia (AP) - Appealing to Serbs not to abandon Kosovo, Yugoslavia's spiritual leader said today he would move to the province in a show of solidarity with the region's Serb minority. Despite the promise by Patriarch Pavle, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Serb exodus from the majority Albanian province accelerated. Prizren's Bishop Artemije and a group of priests fled the city Wednesday under armed German escort, fearing reprisals by ethnic Albanians returning to Kosovo. Later Wednesday, the remnants of Prizren's Serb community fled Kosovo's second-largest city, which had been a major center of Serbian religious and cultural ...

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Lord Sutch, leader of Monster Raving Loony Party, dead at 58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LONDON (AP) - David Sutch, who brought a chuckle to British politics as leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party with the slogan: ``Vote for insanity - you know it makes sense,'' has died. He was 58. Sutch was found hanged Wednesday at his northwest London home by his partner, Yvonne Elwood. Known as Screaming Lord Sutch, he was Britain's longest-serving party leader. Although he was never elected - despite running in scores of races - one of his party members was once elected mayor in a town ...

link Gun Fever in the House Thursday, June 17, 1999; Page A34 GUN FEVER in the House is behind the push for approval today of two destructive exercises of raw firepower aimed directly at the people and government of the District of Columbia. One would repeal outright the District's law prohibiting the possession of firearms. The second would allow the possession of loaded handguns in homes. Both proposals come out of the blue -- with total disregard for the wishes, safety or democratic rights of D.C. citizens -- and should be rejected. Rep. Virgil Goode of Virginia, sponsor of the ...

Media is the  message, and  target  The targets of past conflicts  included steel, chemical  and petroleum facilities;  now they include your  television, PC and  telephone, your bank  account and much more.  James D. Hightower  'Nato is terrorising six million civilians in  large cities in Yugoslavia. Making people's  lives miserable is not solving any problem."  So complained a disgruntled but insightful  Belgrade resident on May 25.  Even so, Nato's comprehensive attack on the  civilian infrastructure of Serbia and Kosovo  continued. Using the full spectrum of US  power, strikes were intensified against  urban transport, water, fuel and electricity  supplies, communications and ...

(UPI Focus) U.S. WANTS COMPENSATION WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) - The Clinton administration is seeking compensation from China for damage to its diplomatic facilities by mobs protesting the mistaken NATO bombing of Beijing's embassy in Belgrade. U.S. officials said Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering discussed the issue during a meeting in Beijing with Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan. The main purpose of Pickering's trip was to explain how an American pilot mistook Beijing's diplomatic headquarters in Yugoslavia for a military target and bombed it, which killed two Chinese journalists and ruptured Sino-U.S. relations. "In terms of the damage done to our ...

As I heard the final boarding call announced for my flight to Los Angeles, I saw a fellow passenger lingering at a free Internet-access computer, pecking feverishly at the keyboard. I peered over his shoulder: he was checking stock quotes. "I manage a fund," he explained. "I usually hold stuff long term, but I still want to see how we're doing." Seeing how you're doing on the stock market has become the overriding obsession of this decade. When I was a child, stocks were stored deep in safe-deposit boxes, to be removed for college tuition or distributed to heirs when ...

0240 GMT, 990617 - Canadian foreign affairs spokesman Jim Wright said the government is concerned about the large number of Serb civilians leaving Kosovo, and called on them to stay in Kosovo. "We are aware that some of these people have already been displaced by the wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. We urge them to choose instead to stay and build their future in a multi-ethnic and democratic Kosovo," Wright said. Wright added that Serbs are not being forced out of Kosovo as ethnic Albanians were during Operation Allied Force. not for commercial use

Albert Gore's 20/20 interview should go a long way in establishing him as completely different from BillyBob in terms of candor, honesty and integrity. Asked by Diane Sawyer if Clinton had lied to him, Albert paused to take a deep breath and then said, "You know, I felt at the time that the matter was so painful for him that he was concealing things that would have given a different impression if he had been totally candid and so I worried that that was going on and certainly the impression he gave me and the others he worked with was ...

The Preamble To The Bill Of Rights Congress of the United States begun and held at the city of New York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, one thosand seven hundred and eighty nine. The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the Time of their Adopting the Constitution, expressed a Desire, in Order to prevent Misconstruction or Abuse of its Powers, that further declaratory and restrictive Clauses should be added; And as exceeding the Ground of public Confidence in the Government will best insure the beneficent Ends of its Institution. Resolved by the Senate, and House ...

News Unlimited | Moral tourism Moral tourism Whatever Nato says, the war was waged against innocent civilians and the tyrant is still in place John Pilger Tuesday June 15, 1999 Walter Rockler, the American lawyer who prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg, recently referred to the crimes of Milosevic. "The notion that these can be redressed," he wrote, "with random destruction and killing by advanced technological means is mere pretext for our arrogant assertion of dominance and power [and] constitutes a continuing war crime." He quoted the playwright Henrik lbsen: "Don't use that foreign word 'ideals'. We have that excellent ...

'The anomalies of the International Criminal Tribunal are legion. This is not victors' justice in the former Yugoslavia - in fact, it is no justice at all' Emotion may be a spur to justice, but it is rarely its guarantor. The allegations of war crimes eagerly funnelled out of Kosovo by the thousands of journalists in the province have provoked a demand for retribution. That cry for justice is natural. But the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the body charged with pursuing those accused of war crimes in Kosovo, is a rogue court with rigged rules. The tribunal ...

Fox News has on the ground video of the ongoing NATO ground troop pacification of Kosovo. Tonight they showed a group of KLA fighters who were detained because they were carrying weapons. The video showed the KLA troops surrounded by a much larger US Army force. It showed a large pile of AK-47s, perhaps 50-100 guns, A US Army commander is shown explaining that "we are not for or against either side, we don't like weapons". He also stated that very bad things could happen if the KLA were allowed to keep their guns. A quick cut was then made ...

For fair use June 17, 1999 ESSAY / By WILLIAM SAFIRE 'Culture of Arrogance' omputers at our nuclear laboratories are again being ordered to "stand down." Our most secret work on our most powerful weaponry is coming to a screeching two-day halt. That's because of a line in a report issued this week by "Piffiab," the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board: "A nefarious employee can still download secret weapons information to a tape, put it in his or her pocket, and walk out the door." This despite Energy Secretary Bill Richardson's previous public assurances that the barn door had been ...

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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