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Entrepreneur hopes to launch rockets from a Caribbean island at 'the end of the world.' But wealthy settlers of nearby hideaway and ecologists say the slab of rock should be left for the native booby birds. SOMBRERO ISLAND, Anguilla--It's hard to imagine that Texas banker Andrew Beal--visionary, opportunist, entrepreneur--never factored in the booby bird when he found a better and cheaper way to reach outer space from this desolate slab of rock. Beal, 46, parlayed real estate investments in the '70s into the largest privately owned bank in Dallas with assets of $1.4 billion. He taught himself advanced math ...

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I can't understand how our president, the American Civil Liberties Union and much of our nation's civil rights establishment can rail against using race as a criterion for stopping African-Americans in their cars for "driving while black," but support using race as a criterion for hiring or admission to law school. Perhaps if I was burdened with a law degree, I could see the legal and moral principle that allows for this inconsistency. One can only imagine the tortured logic that will be used to defend one practice while attacking the other. Surely we as a nation cannot be ...

WASHINGTON -- A draft Senate foreign-aid budget promises increased aid to the Balkans, but it comes at the expense of a World Bank environmental fund that has been a major priority for Vice President Al Gore. The $12.7 billion measure is expected to be taken up and approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday afternoon. As drafted, it very much reflects the priorities of Sen. Mitch McConnell and his staff, who take an aggressive approach in imposing their will on the Clinton administration's foreign policy. Since early this spring, the Kentucky Republican, who is chairman of the Senate foreign operations ...

WASHINGTON--When in 1988 Gorbachev declared competition the essence of socialism, Francis Fukuyama said: "We've reached the end of history." In 1989, the year of the fall of the Wall, Fukuyama published, in The National Interest quarterly, "The End of History?" Widely read, fiercely debated and frequently misunderstood, it had remarkable fecundity as the catalyst of serious thought about political choices after the death of communism. Since then, Gorbachev has appeared in a Pizza Hut ad, and Fukuyama's thesis--call it melancholy triumphalism--has seemed confirmed. It is that the exhaustion of ideological alternatives to bourgeois liberalism--rights-based, pluralist, market societies--presages the unification ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- While Department of Energy officials wring their hands over whom to fire because of the agency's clumsy role in handling the nation's most recent nuclear spy scandal, Robert "Bobby" Henson, a balding, round-faced physicist has quietly gotten his old job back. This is especially comforting to Mr. Henson because he discovered the scandal. In January 1995, after poring over new U.S. intelligence reports on China's bomb tests, he concluded that the Chinese had stolen design features from the W-88, America's newest and most radically different nuclear warhead. Profile of a Company Town Los Alamos, N.M. Population ...

After sitting in pieces in jars for more than 40 years, Albert Einstein's brain is poised to make yet another contribution to science. Scientists in Canada who have studied it now say they have identified something that might explain the great theorist's brilliance -- and might eventually offer clues to the general work of the brain. The absence of the parietal operculum from Einstein's brain may have allowed a part of his brain to grow wider than is typical. The New York Times; photographs courtesy of Dr. S. Witelson They say a crucial region in Einstein's brain -- a region ...

What? An accused official who, far from denying the charge, admits it? And to the lowly press at that.    Here's what Municipal Judge Lee Munson told a group of reporters gathered in his chambers after the morning session of his court one day last week: "Last night, I was stopped by state troopers for driving while intoxicated. I had been at my hobby shop on Stage Coach Road, and I had been drinking. I shouldn't have been drinking. I apologize to the citizens of Little Rock and the people of the state. I intend to plead guilty."     ...

USA TODAY reporter Steven Komarow has been accompanying Brig. Gen. John Craddock, the commander of U.S. troops in the American sector of Kosovo, throughout the province. He filed this report Thursday: UROSEVAC, Kosovo - Brig. Gen. John Craddock was making his first drive around Kosovo's American sector, one of four parceled out to NATO countries for the allied peacekeeping mission. It was largely a "meet and greet" tour to show local leaders that NATO is determined to calm the tension between ethnic Albanians and Serbs. After several stops, in which villagers even kissed him on the cheeks, Craddock headed ...

Now he tells us. Now Vice President Gore says he has been really, all along, privately, please trust him, angry about President Clinton's "inexcusable" behavior. Tipper, bless her family values, was angrier still. The Washington Post even reports the "scoop," conveniently leaked to coincide with Mr. Gore's campaign kickoff this week, that the veep had rebuked his boss at a September Cabinet meeting. Funny that didn't leak last fall the way Health Secretary Donna Shalala's rebuke did. And this isn't what Mr. Gore said last December, in what his Silicon Valley friends would call "real time." Back then, at the ...

CIA Reports Table of Contents 1997 1998 1999 Cia Response to Cox Report Analysis         Report of Proliferation-Related Acquisition in 1997   Table of Contents Scope Note Acquisition by Country: Egypt India Iran Iraq Libya North Korea Pakistan Syria Key Suppliers China Russia North Korea Western Countries Trends Scope Note The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) submitted this report in response to a Congressionally directed action in Section 721 of the FY 1997 Intelligence Authorization Act. The act requires that: "(a) Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every ...

Another Burden For Gore: Public Wants Fresh Start By Morton M. Kondracke To catch up to Texas Gov. George W. Bush (R), Vice President Al Gore has to convince voters that long Washington experience is valuable preparation for the presidency. You'd think it would be obvious, but it isn't. A CBS poll out this week indicates that by 48 to 31 percent, voters would prefer a candidate whose experience was gained outside Washington. This is a shift in public opinion from the two other times CBS asked the question -- prior to 1992 campaign, when voters preferred Washington experience by ...

Free Republic-THINK TANK-? Ballots but no Bullets. Right to Vote but not buy guns! Why was it so important to give 18 year olds the right to vote but now they can't be trusted to buy guns. It appears the Liberal and Democrats are interested only in the young peoples votes not their Constitutional rights.

Unclear if all Serb militia leaving Kosovo - NATO LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - NATO supreme commander General Wesley Clarke said on Thursday it was unclear if all Serb paramilitaries were pulling out of Kosovo. Clark told the BBC that disarmament in the Balkans of both the Serbs and the Kosovo Albanians would never be complete and was fraught with difficulties. ``It is not clear whether all the paramilitaries have pulled back or not and we will be watching this very closely,'' Clark told the BBC. ``We are never going to disarm everyone in the Balkans, There are weapons buried ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON INTRODUCTION AND TABLE OF CONTENTS Revised 6/17/99   Doug from Upland presents "Hello Dolly" (the FreeRepublic welcoming song) The "Downside Legacy at Two Degrees of President Clinton" is the cyber-notepad of Alamo-Girl, the unofficial, unappointed secretary of what is the most active conservative political forum on the world wide web, the Free Republic. Forum participants refer to the list by its initials, DSL. The DSL is limited to the downside (darkside) of William Jefferson Clinton and includes questionable people, circumstances and events surrounding Bill Clinton ...

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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 locked, now ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: STATUS OF US MILITARY Revised 6/17/99   U.S. DEFENSELESS AGAINST ICBMS OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT MILITARY STATUS UNDERMANNED AND POORLY EQUIPPED - SPREAD TOO THIN POOR MORALE ---Bad Command Decisions! ---CIC Sleeping with the Enemy? ---Military Action on U.S. Ground ---Bad Decisions on Key Positions ---Clinton Attitude toward the military! ---Outrage toward the Commander in Chief ---Clinton Subordinates Held to a Higher Code of Conduct! U.S. DEFENSELESS AGAINST ICBMS 11-12/98 Ambassador Henry F Cooper on spending money on catastrophic disease v. defense ...

Negotiations on the Role of Russia Intensify By CELESTINE BOHLEN HELSINKI, Finland -- With the key issue of the distribution of Russian forces in Kosovo still unsettled, American and Russian negotiators returned to the table on Thursday night, with orders to work through the night. The Russian defense minister, Igor D. Sergeyev, and the foreign minister, Igor S. Ivanov, told their American counterparts early Thursday evening that they would return to Moscow for consultations on Thursday night. But they were persuaded instead to press ahead with work on a complex agreement defining Russia's role in Kosovo. Russia sees the outcome ...