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ALBANY, N.Y.--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 of the '60s ...

War, propaganda, and the proliferation of doublespeak have always gone hand-in-hand. As was the case during the Persian Gulf war, the NATO war against Yugoslavia witnessed a collapse of mainstream media integrity and a new surge of doublespeak in the service of the war party. It was grimly humorous that NATO and its compliant media partners justified the bombing of Serbian radio and TV on the grounds of propaganda service to Milosevic's war machine. In reality, the parallel service of the U.S. and British media differed from that of the Serbs mainly in their ludicrous self- designation as objective and ...

Two days with no Angelwood reports. This is worst than MTV. I can live without MTV. Ah, Ah, Ah, I want a report NOW!Those media pukes don't deserve a break.I hear the USSS guys are demanding cable in the guard houses because they too have sensed the level on entertainment on the Avenue has slipped to unacceptable levels.

SENSING growing Nato disquiet about its future role in the province, the Kosovo Liberation Army yesterday scaled down its patrols in the second city of Prizren. Most of its soldiers were carrying only side-arms and truncheons. The main commander in Prizren, Ekrem Rexha, said that discussions on his guerrillas' disarmament could gather pace once it was verified that all Serb forces were out of Kosovo. He said that for the moment the KLA command, now stationed in the former Yugoslav Army barracks, believed there could still be Serb paramilitary units and snipers in southern and western Kosovo. But the German ...

Holbrooke Faces GOP Questions By LARRY MARGASAK The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Richard Holbrooke, nominated as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, faces a battering from conservative Republicans as confirmation hearings begin with a session on his ethical conduct. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who has said Holbrooke's nomination comes with ``ethical baggage,'' is ready to lead the questioning today - exactly one year after President Clinton announced his intention to nominate the architect of the Bosnian peace accords. On Wednesday the panel's senior Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, predicted confirmation once Republicans vent their ...

As the Lewinsky scandal was breaking publically, King Billy commissioned an opinion survey by Dick Morris. A hasty phone poll caused Morris to draft a statement for King Billy's consideration. Page 2951 includes the draft mea culpa statement based on Morris' first impressions of the breaking Monica story: "For many, many years I have been personally flawed and have had sexual relations outside of my marriage. This has caused Hillary great pain and I have tried and tried to curb my behavior as I saw the pain it caused her. After I became President, I was determined to mend ...

Not for commercial use. Fair use only! MOSCOW, Jun 17, 1999 -- (Reuters) President Boris Yeltsin told Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev on Thursday that Russia must insist on having its own peacekeeping zone in Kosovo in talks in Helsinki with U.S. officials, Interfax news agency said. "I warned Sergeyev...that the president categorically rejects the non-allocation of a sector (to Russia) and will seek ways of overcoming this," Interfax quoted Yeltsin as saying. Sergeyev and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov arrived in Helsinki on Wednesday for talks with U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Russia's role ...

After smoking Bill and Hillary Clinton last night at the Freedom Forum in Orange Country, former Arkansas trooper L.D. Brown will be speaking tonight to a Southern California audience at the Granada Forum in the San Fernando Valley. Last night Brown shed light on the Clintons as your kitchen light would on a pair of cockroaches. They really are as despicable as they have been so accurately portrayed by the VRWC. The intimidation by this political Bonnie and Clyde continues to this day. When asked if Bill would betray his country for campaign contributions, Brown commented "absolutely, and he is ...

KEY WEST, Fla.--Ground stations with older equipment or in remote parts of the world could have problems at the turn of the millennium, analysts and industry officials say. "The satellites themselves are up to speed. The concern is about the ground stations," said Keith Rhodes, director of the Office of Computer and Technology Assessment in the General Accounting Office, a U.S. congressional agency. Geosynchronous satellites built by Lokheed Martin Missiles and Space in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, Calif., do not have date-specific computer chips that would be confused by the Jan. 1, 2000, date, said Clayton ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A House committee opened a new round of campaign finance hearings Thursday, but Democrats criticized them as a ``sham'' designed to delay adoption of proposals most lawmakers endorsed last year. ``What are we doing? Why are we here?'' asked Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, senior Democrat on the House Administration Committee. The House passed a campaign finance bill last August after numerous hearings and more than 50 hours of floor debate, Hoyer noted. He said additional hearings, planned into July, will waste time. ``It is time for us to move on and not to further delay addressing this ...

Besides being depressed by signs that their exacting amendments to the House gun control bill may be in trouble, liberal Democrats are quaking over an unfavorable amendment offered by one of their own. Indeed, all acknowledge that if Rep. John Dingell's passes, it would constitute a "rollback." But, according to some observers, a rollback is not what the liberal-socialist legislators are really concerned about. Rather, they fear that Dingell's Amendment will sweep away one of the Democrat Party's hottest, hoped-for campaign issues during the upcoming 2000 election. Of course, it is not just the Dingell Amendment alone that is causing ...

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The horde of reporters eagerly waiting for neophyte presidential front-runner George W. Bush to slip got their wish Monday in New Castle, N.H. But it was only a little slip, so small that even blunder-hungry journalists hardly noticed it. In his first news conference as an open presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Bush was asked twice whether he would impose an anti-abortion "litmus test" in selecting Supreme Court justices. On the second try, he said: "There will be no litmus tests, except for whether or not the judges strictly interpret the Constitution." The answer was precisely as it had been crafted ...

I have my own site and we been doing a lot of research on streaming video. It would be totally possible for Freerepublic.com to set up it's own live news. We do an IPO, raise some bucks and start our own network. The time is now don't you think?

U.S. Navy ship sails into Korean waters after armed clash 2.55 p.m. ET (1856 GMT) June 17, 1999 By Paul Shin, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A U.S. Navy ship sailed into South Korean waters Thursday on a mission to help keep peace in the Yellow Sea after a deadly naval clash between the two Koreas. The USS Vincennes left its base in Yokosuka, Japan, on Wednesday and was to be joined Friday by another guided-missile cruiser, the USS Mobile Bay. The two ships were dispatched to "contribute to peace in the region'' and will stay there until ...

I know this will hurt, but Janet Reno has never been on 60 minutes...this was either a hoax or a misunderstanding. sorry;)God bless, Vince. Sorry dude they been denying it all over the place but Cathy and I were sitting here watching it... bet ya didn't hear Carl Bernstein get on Dateline and tell the world that every nation on earth was taking direct political orders from the Roman Catholic Church either did ya...but we both saw that too... Something interesting for ya...Cathy and I both saw this stated in person by her, YET, 60 minutes denies that she was ...

Emailed herwith is the letter to the Editor of Washington Post from the Embassy of India which has been published today (June 16). The letter is in response to the Post's editorial of May 30 on the Kargil situation. EMBASSY CORRECTS THE WASHINGTON POST Subject: A Letter to the Editor of Washington Post from the Embassy of India From: Embassy of India <minpress@indiagov.org> Date: Wednesday, June 16 1999 at 12:30:48 -0500 Emailed herwith is the letter to the Editor of Washington Post from the Embassy of India which has been published today (June 16). The letter is in response ...

Many of my readers are, in S.J.Perelman's phrase, "afflicted with total recall." They remember that one week ago the lead sentence in this space was "In Kosovo, the Western world is doing the right thing in the wrong way." My conclusion: "Civilization is more civilized for having intervened to do the right thing. Next time we are more likely to do it the right way." With that nicely balanced opinion off my chest, I settled back to watch the president of the United States address the nation. One of my Bernese mountain dogs, Emily--a hundred pounds of wriggling love--was at ...

House Panel OKs Anti-Shutdown Bill By ALAN FRAM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Amid a brewing budget confrontation between President Clinton and Congress, a House committee approved legislation Thursday that would prevent federal shutdowns during spending fights between the two sides. The measure would also permit projected surpluses on the non-Social Security side of the budget to be used for tax cuts or spending increases. That would be a boon to Republicans, whose agenda this year includes an $800 billion, 10-year tax reduction, to be paid for by that portion of the surplus. The bill may end up being ...

To call Slobodan Milosevic a survivor does not even begin to do him justice. He has been written off repeatedly since the earliest days and on each occasion has emerged victorious and apparently unscathed. Two years ago in Belgrade, I was startled when Serb friends confidently predicted that Mr Milosevic would one day give Kosovo away as a ploy to hold on to power. It seemed impossible at the time. How could he give away Kosovo, the alleged Serb heartland, and still survive? It seemed a contradiction in terms. But Mr Milosevic survives on just such contradictions. One supposed reason ...