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CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: NATIONAL SECURITY PAKISTAN Revised 6/17/99   GENERAL RECENT ACTIVITY GENERAL Clinton permitted the sale of satellite and missile technology to China. China provided nuclear assistance to Pakistan and Iran. That prompted India to boost its nuclear weapons program. And today Pakistan is once again upping the ante. "China has had a major hand in what happened today," said R. James Woolsey, former CIA director. Transfers: nuclear weapons design information, ring magnets, M-11 short-range missiles and equipment used in setting up a missile ...

AUSTRALIA Backlash beer named for effect LISA CREFFIELD in Sydney The backlash against political correctness has reached new extremes with the launch of a beer brand called Piss. The Piss Beer Company is launching a bottled version of an on-tap product developed in a Melbourne pub to cater to drinkers disillusioned with the slick marketing efforts of the big beer brands. "Piss" is a popular synonym for alcohol, especially beer, in Australia. Managing director Chris Hodges said students in particular were frequenting the pub to buy the brew, which has a 4.9 per cent alcohol strength. "Our research showed young ...

'C' Word Has Been Around the Block By WALTER R. MEARS The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - In the 2000 presidential campaign, the C word is the buzzword. C for compassionate. As in Gov. George W. Bush's self description, ridiculed by rivals, who nonetheless insist that they are no less compassionate than he. ``I am proud to be a compassionate conservative,'' Bush says. ``I welcome the label.'' He chose it during his first term as governor of Texas. ``Call me a compassionate conservative,'' he said two years ago. The line is now part of the set speech in his Republican ...

For fair use Inside the Starr chamber Bob Woodward's new book shows the independent counsel as the pervert-run-amok we all knew he was. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jack Hitt My mother has never liked Ted Kennedy's politics. But throughout my childhood, she would always conclude one of her anti-Ted diatribes with some remark like "but no one deserves to lose two brothers the way he did," or "his mother Rose is a strong woman." When the American public remained unchanged in its feeling for President Clinton throughout the Starr investigation, there ...

House Votes To Ease Gun Show Sales By DAVID ESPO The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - In a victory for the National Rifle Association, the Republican-controlled House voted Thursday night to loosen restrictions on sales at gun shows. The vote was 218-211, and came as lawmakers worked past midnight to craft legislation in response to a recent spate of high school shootings in Colorado and elsewhere. President Clinton, attending a summit of industrial nations in Cologne, Germany, complained that the House ``voted in the dead of night to let criminals keep buying guns at gun shows.'' ``This vote will ...

Gore Chips Away At Wooden Image By SHARON L. LYNCH The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - On his second day as a full-fledged presidential candidate, Vice President Al Gore sounded as though he had been studying how to chip away at his oh-so-wooden image. On the stump in Manhattan, he promised true equality for women and minorities, after-school programs for teens and pre-school for younger children. But perhaps just as importantly, he punctuated those pledges with sweeping gestures. ``If you look at our economic circumstances today compared to what they were seven years ago, the contrast is truly astonishing,'' ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: NATIONAL SECURITY MIDDLE EAST Revised 6/17/99 GENERAL ISRAEL/PALESTINE AFGHANISTAN, SUDAN and OSAMA BIN LADEN IRAN IRAQ   GENERAL Egyptian Defense Minister Marshal Hussein Tantawi said that "Egypt is calling for an Arab military bloc to take up the challenges confronting the Arab world and make advances in technology . coalesce in all areas, particularly the military field, because the entire world is moving towards coalitions and blocs." The Spotlight, page 1 1/4/99 Bob Smith ".Hafez El Assad, 69, has been president of ...

KOREA Pyongyang 'testing long-range missile that could hit Alaska' REUTERS in Tokyo North Korea has been conducting propulsion tests on a long-range missile that could reach the western United States, Japanese reports said yesterday. Quoting unnamed US military sources, NHK public television said the North had started experimental propulsion tests in April of a Daepodong-2 missile with a range of up to 6,000km, which could put Alaska within its reach. The US military sources did not rule out the possibility of Pyongyang test-firing its newly developed hardware by the end of the year, NHK said. Kyodo news agency quoted sources ...

For fair use - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jake Tapper We sure cut Bob Woodward a lot of journalistic slack. Not all of us, of course. Controversy about the Washington Post's stellar celebrity snoop's unfathomable access to private conversations in the halls of power rears its head nearly every time he churns out one of his bestsellers. This week that controversy surrounds his new book, "Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate," which hit stores a few days ago. The reaction to "Shadow" has followed the typical post-Woodward-book-release script: 1) Book ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: NATIONAL SECURITY RUSSIA Revised 6/17/99 Russian Economy Russian Connections Russian Proliferation Europe Economy Russian Economy StratFor Intelligence Briefing 7/10/98 "With its economy in a state of collapse, coup rumors flying, and the recent murder of an opposition political leader, Russia's situation is more grave than at any time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Caught in a cash crisis stemming from its inability to collect taxes and from declining petroleum prices, Moscow is facing increasingly hostile state workers and miners to ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: PEACEKEEPING BEFORE EMBASSY BOMBING Revised 6/17/99   AP 8/6/98 "The United States will send hundreds of Marines to Albania on a NATO military exercise later this month, in part to show Yugoslav leaders that allied forces can move very quickly into their region, Pentagon officials said Thursday.." Drudge 8/6/98 "The NEW YORK TIMES reports on Friday that Janet Reno has ordered a formal 30-day review of what government officials described as "a previously unexamined campaign finance issue that could ultimately lead the ...

BILINGUAL EDUCATION TRAINEESHIPS AVAILABLE FROM GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Georgetown University's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program in English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education has been awarded six Title VII traineeships for each of the next five academic years, under the U.S. Department of Education's 'Bilingual Education: Teachers and Personnel Grants' program. The District of Columbia Public Schools and Arlington (Virginia) Public Schools are cooperating partners. APPLICATIONS INVITED: Georgetown's MAT program invites applications from qualified candidates for the first six Title VII traineeships, for the 1999-2000 academic year. The traineeships cover tuition (no stipend) for Fall, Spring and Summer ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: PEACEKEEPING AFTER EMBASSY BOMBING Revised 6/17/99 5/7/99 BELGRADE "...One of the people injured in a NATO strike on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade Friday night has died, the Yugoslav news agency Beta said Saturday. "One employee of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia was killed in the overnight strike on the Chinese embassy building in Belgrade,'' Beta said. The Beta agency added that two more employees were missing. ''It is feared that these two have also been killed,'' it said...." Washington Post 5/8/99 ...

American and Russian defence officials are continuing working through the night into Friday, in tough negotiations on a Russian role in the international peacekeeping force, K-For. During a break in the talks at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki on Thursday evening, US Defence Secretary William Cohen said good progress had been made, but added that an agreement had not yet been finalised. Mr Cohen and his Russian counterpart, Igor Sergeyev, left for the night, planning to meet at 9am (0800GMT) on Friday, while their military experts tried to settle the remaining differences. They were thought to focus on NATO's ...

Gore Would Welcome Run by First Lady By MIKE GLOVER The Associated Press NEW YORK (June 17) - Vice President Al Gore says a U.S. Senate bid by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton would be ''a positive force'' and generate Democratic enthusiasm throughout the country. Heading into New York on his first full day as a formal presidential candidate, Gore was talking ''real specifics'' about his programs, but also was asked what impact the first lady would have in a key campaign state. ''I'm all for it,'' Gore told reporters on Air Force Two as it flew to New York ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: GENERAL Revised 6/17/99 GENERAL WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS COMMERCE DRIVEN MISCELLANEOUS AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST MISCELLANEOUS EUROPE AND NORTH/SOUTH AMERICA     GENERAL Center for Security Policy 8/10/98 "History appears increasingly likely to remember the Clinton presidency as the era in which the world's only superpower lost its grip. As a result in no small measure of Mr. Clinton's fecklessness in the conduct of foreign policy and his misfeasance (if not malfeasance) in providing for the national security, the international environment ...

Timeline to 1993 DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: TIMELINE TO 1993 Revised 6/17/99   With many thanks to Ohmlaw98! Abbreviations: Iran-Iraq Arms Nonproliferation Act (IIANA) Arms Export Control Act (AECA) Export Administration Act (EAR) Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act (NPPA) Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Nonproliferation Treaty (NT) Export-Import Bank Act (EIBA)   1970's Chinese efforts to obtain U.S. intelligence traced back to the late 1970's - AP 5/14/99 Late 1970's Chinese obtained design information on the W-70 - Washington Times ...

House Votes To Ease Gun Show Sales By DAVID ESPO The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - In a victory for the National Rifle Association, the Republican-controlled House voted Thursday night to loosen restrictions on sales at gun shows. The vote was 218-211, and came as lawmakers worked past midnight to craft legislation in response to a recent spate of high school shootings in Colorado and elsewhere. President Clinton, attending a summit of industrial nations in Cologne, Germany, complained that the House ``voted in the dead of night to let criminals keep buying guns at gun shows.'' ``This vote will not ...

Timeline 1994 to 1995 DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: TIMELINE 1994 TO 1995 Revised 6/17/99   With many thanks to Ohmlaw98! Abbreviations: Iran-Iraq Arms Nonproliferation Act (IIANA) Arms Export Control Act (AECA) Export Administration Act (EAR) Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act (NPPA) Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Nonproliferation Treaty (NT) Export-Import Bank Act (EIBA)   1994   "…What forced India to reassess China's intentions is that this cooperation seemed to increase after India and China signed an agreement resolving their border ...

Slow lane on info superhighway: Net access, e-mail without a PC By Eric Young Bee Staff Writer (Published June 17, 1999) Antoinette Petrosian wanted to get on the information superhighway, but she didn't want to mess with learning to use a powerful personal computer. "I don't need a machine that will launch a rocket," the Long Beach retiree said. So she recently bought a gadget called the iPhone, an easy-to-use device that combines the common telephone with e-mail access and an Internet browser so she can surf the World Wide Web. "My husband and I have finally entered the computer ...