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The Students for Keyes 2000 (SFK2000) effort is rapidly gathering steam as students across the nation are joining the fight to promote Dr. Keyes' message and candidacy. All of these students are enthusiastic about Dr. Keyes, and several state and campus coordinators have already been appointed. To make this effort truly successful, however, we need all of you students out there to contact us and let us know if you would like to join the team. Whether you want to take on a leadership position on the state level, help out on your own campus, or simply occasionally attend ...

Check out www.lucianne.com for a preview of Lucianne Goldberg new web site, the Lucianne ™ Forum. I posted the news that she had registered two internet domain names a few days ago, but those posts got deleted in the heat of the recent controversy. Now, in the last few days, the web pages are starting to appear. Good luck to Trixie on her new forum, and I hope it will enjoy peaceful coexistence with Free Republic.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's identification with Eleanor Roosevelt has taken on a new dimension in her choice of top campaign adviser. Harold M. Ickes enjoys an even closer communion with the Roosevelt years -- his father was FDR's hard-charging interior secretary and, in many ways, his enforcer. Like father, like son. The son, loyal, combative and at times perhaps a little over the edge, is devoting his energies to getting the first lady into the Senate. His father had tried to persuade Franklin Roosevelt's wife to take the same course but she declined. Rising from the caldron ...

Spanish fighter pilots admit that NATO deliberately attacked civilian targets From the Spanish weekly "Articulo 20" (Article 20, the constitutional provision on the freedom of speach?), No. 30, of June 14, 1999, about the NATO bombing raids against Yugoslavia and the role of Americans in making all decisions. Translation. "The pilots of Spanish planes who participated in bombing raids against Yugoslavia do not feel like "supermen" nor as masters of air space. Quite on the contrary, they say that our forces play to the tune of music played by the North Americans, and accuse NATO of having honoured with medals ...

Chat: Join AllPolitics and Vice President Gore for his first online conversation as an official presidential candidate, Thursday at 4:50 p.m. EDT.

U.S. troops are finally in Kosovo, last in a ``peacekeeping race'' won by the Russians. There is nothing wrong with a slow and cautious approach into a blighted landscape of snipers, mine fields, booby traps, unexploded cluster bombs and truculent Serbs refusing to accept defeat gracefully. But it does give the departing Serbs a final opportunity to loot and torch Albanian homes in the ``ethnically cleansed'' province. A line of fire marks their retreat. And it demeans NATO's most powerful army to come in behind the British, French, Italians, Germans and Dutch. The Russians stole a march on all the ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Thursday, June 17, 1999   KOREA Pyongyang severs contact with Seoul over 'brinkmanship' AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Seoul and AGENCIES North Korea said yesterday it was severing contacts with South Korea "for the time being" following Tuesday's naval firefight in a disputed area of the Yellow Sea. A spokesman for the Committee for Peaceful Reunification of Fatherland, which is in charge of contacts with the South, accused Seoul of "bringing the situation to the brink of war". The statement did not refer to a vice-ministerial meeting scheduled for Monday in Beijing. The statement's strong wording, ...

Bush and Gore in dead heat in Calif. Updated 11:22 AM ET June 16, 1999 LOS ANGELES, June 16 (UPI) Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush are locked in a dead heat among California voters according to a new Los Angeles Times Poll. Bush, the second-term Texas governor, out-polled Vice President Gore 49 percent to 44 percent in a hypothetical general election matchup, but the lead was within the margin of error. Seven percent of voters did not know which candidate they would vote for. Both men would easily triumph at this stage in their parties' primaries. Bush ...

KOSOVO: A PYRRHIC VICTORY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By David H. Hackworth, 15 June 1999 Wait a military minute. We spend 4 billion bucks, risk our Green Berets' and jet jockeys' lives, and the Ruskies do an end run and march into Kosovo before us? They get the parades, flowers and cheers that were beamed by television around the world -- and we pick up the tab. This just doesn't add up. But come to think of it, nothing in the "war that wasn't a war" makes much sense. Let's review the deal. President Clinton does a peace dance with indicted war criminal ...

Reporters Sans Frontieres: "Doubts about goodwill of certain western leaders" Nato has come under fire from a media organisation for "distorting the truth" and giving "false information" about the war in Yugoslavia. In a report called War in Yugoslavia, Nato's Media Blunders, the Paris-based Reporters sans Frontieres (RSF) said the problems could have arisen from simple mistakes, or could have been deliberate misinformation. "False information, exorbitant and impossible-to-check figures and the use of debatable historical references have strengthened doubts about the goodwill of certain western political and military leaders," it said in a statement. The group illustrated its concern with ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Thursday, June 17, 1999   Satellite company defends actions AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Washington An American satellite manufacturer has defended its role in the row over alleged thefts of nuclear secrets by Beijing. In full-page adverts in leading US newspapers, Loral Space and Communications denied charges that it supplied sensitive technical information to China. It was time "to put the events into a more complete context", it said in an open letter to employees and shareholders, in response to criticism in the Cox report, named after the head of a congressional investigation panel, Christopher Cox. ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: 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 ...

The moderate leader of the Kosovar Albanians, Ibrahim Rugova, has said he is planning to return to Kosovo in the next few days to resume his political activities in the war-ravaged province. Several of Mr Rugova's more radical opponents in the Kosovo Liberation Army, the KLA, are already back in Kosovo at what could be the beginning of a contest for power when preparations get under way for elections. Mr Rugova has spent six weeks in western Europe, mostly in Italy, since he left Kosovo, where he was held under house arrest by the Serbian police during the first ...

Source--Text of Article NEW YORK (AP) - The reputed leader of the terrorists who killed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was charged Wednesday in a conspiracy to kill Americans that included efforts to secure ``The Nuclear Bomb of Islam.'' Ayman Al-Zawahiri was charged with conspiracy in the bombings of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, as was a second alleged terrorist, Khaled Al-Fawwaz. The indictments raises to 15 the number of people charged in the Aug. 7 bombings that killed 213 people. The indictment, which supersedes a previous indictment, claims that three days before the embassy bombings, Al-Zawahiri threatened to retaliate against ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Thursday, June 17, 1999   Anson invites Cox to see export controls in action JIMMY CHEUNG Anson Chan Fang On-sang has challenged the head of the US inquiry into alleged Chinese espionage to visit Hong Kong and to provide further evidence of the alleged illegal diversion of sensitive technology. The Chief Secretary for Administration invited Congressman Christopher Cox to come to the SAR at a meeting in Washington. Mrs Chan denied allegations Hong Kong had been used by the PLA Garrison as a transshipment centre for strategic goods. "I have invited Mr Cox to ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Thursday, June 17, 1999   US delivers account of bomb raid 'Pretty thorough' account: Thomas Pickering JASPER BECKER in Beijing and AGENCIES China and the United States took the first step to mending ties yesterday with a top envoy from Washington delivering a "thorough account" of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. Leading an eight-strong delegation including officials from the Pentagon and intelligence agencies, US Under-Secretary of State Thomas Pickering used slides and diagrams to try to persuade Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi that faulty intelligence, not intentional targeting, caused Nato to ...

Hawkish Western leaders' berated 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, they had no qualms about taking risky measures ...

JOIN! The media (agencies of mass communication) is suppose to be a non-biased neutral entity. The Liberal Media more often then not, either purposefully or accidently, relays information which is filtered through their opinions, biases, and misperceptions to their audience and average voters. Some believe that this alarming trend has effected the outcome of public votes..and many if not all conservatives are tired of it. By using techniques designed to alarm the average viewers, subscribers, audience and voters, the media creates hysteria in the voting booth either by distorting facts or sharing misinformation. A prime example is the attack ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Republicans Mock Gore's Moral Authority Reuters [OL] Wednesday, June 16, 1999 8:21PM By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans ripped into Vice President Al Gore's vow Wednesday to bring moral leadership to the Oval Office if elected as President Clinton's successor. ``Where was Al Gore when his partner, Bill Clinton, robbed the Oval Office of its moral leadership?'' said Republican presidential hopeful Elizabeth Dole. The Republican Party noted that when Clinton was impeached for charges stemming from his affair with an intern, Gore hailed Clinton as ``one of our greatest presidents.'' In declaring his ...