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PRIZREN, YUGOSLAVIA -- With the withdrawal of Serbian forces nearly complete, NATO is confronting the next critical phase of its Kosovo peacekeeping operation: disarming ethnic Albanian rebels. Emerging from Kosovo's forested hills and bases in Albania, jubilant Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighters have swept into towns and villages on the heels of their retreating foes. In Prizren, they have moved into the Yugoslav Army's officers club and the police headquarters and patrol the streets in full view of German peacekeepers. But this will soon change. Once the Serbian pullout is over – the deadline is Sunday - and the standoff ...

While the world focused on Kosovo, the simmering conflict between North and South Korea erupted this week into a deadly naval skirmish in disputed waters of the Yellow Sea. South Korean warships sank one North Korean vessel and heavily damaged another before Pyongyang's ships retreated Tuesday, ending an eight-day standoff in contested crab-fishing waters. Some 30 North Korean sailors perished and seven South Korean sailors were wounded in the shootout. It was, among other things, a warning for Americans that their military forces are stretched thin around the globe--bogged down in Yugoslavia and Iraq. Few U.S. warships were available to ...

For information and discussion only. Not for commercial use. PRIZREN, Yugoslavia (AP) - German soldiers detained 25 ethnic Albanian rebels today after finding one elderly man dead and more than 15 others hurt in a police station that had been under control of the Kosovo Liberation Army since early this week. Most of the victims seemed to be ethnic Albanians or Gypsies between the ages of 50 and 60, said Lt. Col. Dietmar Jeserich, a spokesman for the German army serving in the Kosovo peace force in the region. During the Kosovo conflict that started February 1998 and ended ...

Detroit News June 17, 1999 If Clinton Won Kosovo War, Why Did He Invoke A New Draft? By Now that the Kosovo War — or "conflict" as the White House insisted on calling it before it was settled — is over, some killjoys are bound to interrupt the continuous gloat coming from Bill Clinton’s friends and actually count the costs of the operation . It will be harder to calculate the ways our own military has been degraded by the Clinton/Madeleine Albright adventure. The financial costs of depleting our cruise missile stores, stretching an Air Force already scrambling for spare ...

  1715 GMT, 990618 – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees reports that as of June 18, two-thirds of the ethnic Albanian refugees sheltered at the Kukes, Albania camp have left for the return trip home. UNHCR spokesman Rupert Colville said between 11,000 and 12,000 refugees still remain. 1703 GMT, 990618 – Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev has told reporters in Helsinki that talks with the U.S. delegation have "firmly established that the Russian peacekeeping force activities in Kosovo will be fully under political and military control of Russia." 1655 GMT, 990618 – Though delayed by several hours, a meeting ...

GNJILANE, Yugoslavia — Top Marine Corps leaders in the U.S.-protected sector of Kosovo say tensions are rising in their area after six ethnic Albanians were wounded by gunfire Wednesday night. The shootings occurred after an incident earlier that day in which Marines forcibly detained six Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas after a daylong standoff with more than 100 of the rebel fighters. "It’s more tense now than I ever thought it would be," said Lt. Col. Bruce Gandy, ground troop commander of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Kosovo. In the latest incident, the wounded Kosovars showed up at a Marine ...

Where does the Democratic Party get its fundraisers? From wanted posters in post offices, evidently - because "Sara Olson," a Democratic Party fundraiser and gun-control activist in Minnesota, was really Kathleen Soliah, "star" of "America's Most Wanted" for her at least two attempts to bomb police cars in Los Angeles as a member of the terrorist group that "kidnapped" Patty Hearst. Where do anti-gun groups get activists? From the same wanted posters; wanted felon and wanna-be cop killer Kathleen Soliah was one of them. Soliah was arrested - as the woman whose neighbors (thought they) knew as "Ms. Olson" ...

Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) this week accused President Clinton of giving short shrift to the burgeoning information technology phenomenon, saying the president's inattention and inability to engage the public on the issue will eventually harm the United States' ability to defend itself against an enemy clever enough to attack the country at its computer-based core. Speaking June 15 at an industry conference in Arlington, VA, about defending critical infrastructure, Weldon said the president has never addressed in detail the topic of cyber security or information technology as it relates to the nation's infrastructure and defense. At the most recent State ...

Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) this week accused President Clinton of giving short shrift to the burgeoning information technology phenomenon, saying the president's inattention and inability to engage the public on the issue will eventually harm the United States' ability to defend itself against an enemy clever enough to attack the country at its computer-based core. Speaking June 15 at an industry conference in Arlington, VA, about defending critical infrastructure, Weldon said the president has never addressed in detail the topic of cyber security or information technology as it relates to the nation's infrastructure and defense. At the most recent State ...

SHAWANO, WISCONSIN -- A former Menominee County tribal officer who taught children not to abuse drugs has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for selling cocaine. Kenneth Dodge, 36, of Keshena, sold cocaine on three occasions to an undercover agent while he was a bartender at a Shawano tavern. Dodge was "more serious than a normal drug deliver" because he taught students the dangers of drugs as part of the national DARE program, said Shawano-Menominee District Atty. Gary Robert Bruno. "You've got a law-enforcement official . . . telling children they should form a partnership with parents and ...

NLRB Sued Again for Delay in Forced Union Dues Case U.S. Newswire 17 Jun 12:24 NLRB Sued a Second Time This Month for Delays in Forced Union Dues Cases To: National Desk, Labor Reporter Contact: Joseph Hillock or Stefan Gleason, 703-321-8510, both of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation; Web site: www.nrtw.org CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: For the second time in the past two weeks, union-abused employees -- assisted by the National Right to Work Foundation -- have filed suit ...

Pakistan seeks G8 help on Kashmir crisis By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, June 18 (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Friday it had sought Group of Eight nations' help to avert a conflict with arch-rival India over their tense standoff in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made the request in a letter to leaders of G8 states, the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations and Russia, at their summit beginning on Friday in Cologne, Germany, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Sharif urged them to play ``a positive role to resolve the crisis and avert a conflict,'' spokesman ...

As seen on C-SPAN at 1044 18 June 1999. Chris Shays, R-CT said on the floor of the house, "I hope during my life time MY PARTY's marriage to the NRA ... ENDS IN DIVORCE!!!!"

INDIA TO FIGHT FOR HIMALAYAN PEAK DRAS, India (AP) -- Artillery moved forward and air force jets roared high above the Himalayan peaks of Kashmir today as the Indian army prepared for a frontal assault on an almost vertical rock face held by Islamic militants. India wants to build on military gains it claimed earlier this week after a month of fighting the militants in the Indian-controlled part of the divided region of Kashmir. Meanwhile, Russia joined the United States in urging Pakistan to withdraw the forces that crossed the cease-fire line dividing the region into Indian and Pakistani-held ...

..in the schools and, if we get positive results, consider where else we might hang them. I could suggest we hang them under speed limit signs. Maybe, we could get a reduction in highway death. Or, hang them up in prison! Man! The possibilities are endless!

Candidates Mixed on House Action By TESSIE BORDEN The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley believes the legislative amendment passed by the House allowing the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools may be unconstitutional. Presidential candidates had a broad range of reaction to the Ten Commandment amendment and to gun control legislation. ``It will have to be tested in the courts,'' Bradley said Thursday of the Ten Commandments amendment. ``My hunch is it's unlikely to pass constitutional muster.'' Vice President Al Gore said: ``It's a lot easier to childproof a gun than to bulletproof ...

Talks Stuck on Russia's Kosovo Role By ROBERT BURNS The Associated Press HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - U.S. and Russian negotiators struggled for a third day to reach agreement on Kosovo peacekeeping, hung up on resolving the delicate problem of how to give Moscow a prominent role but not sole control over any sector of the province. Defense Secretary William Cohen, negotiating with Russian Defense Minister Marshall Igor Sergeyev, said he was hopeful a deal could be completed today, although both sides were ``prepared to leave without a final agreement.'' Sergeyev raised the possibility that the issue might have to be ...

A GORE PRESIDENCY? FROM WHITEWATER TO DISHWATER By: Norman Liebmann Since Bill Clinton has made lying a normal function of the office of the Presidency, as Vice President, Al Gore is said to be a heartbeat away from bulls*!t. Despite the vapid non-sequitur statements that fall from his oral aperture, friends of Al Gore insist he's not senile, just prematurely dull. His office staff has been instructed to explain away this circumstance by telling visiting dignitaries, "You may not find the Vice President's company very scintillating. He just stepped away from his personality for a few years." Trying to engage ...

"YOU'RE good", proclaims the US sentry with the night-vision attachments as he waves you into the muddy field that is now Camp Bondsteel, the new American Nato base in southern Kosovo. What happens if you're "bad", he is not at liberty to divulge. Once inside the rapidly expanding camp, however, his comrades are only too happy to tell you what they are ready, willing and able to do should the Serbs or KLA misbehave in the countryside around Ferizaj and Gnjilane. Here, to the bemusement of the T-shirted British liaison team, everyone wears flak jackets and most of the 2,700 ...

http://www.motorsportsdigest.com/pov-1.htm Gun Registration: It's simply the first step toward Gun Confiscation. 'Gun control laws are not the answer and are only penalizing the law abiding.' Sunday, June 13, 1999; In an interview on "Good Morning, America" last week, the president said that we should consider registering guns, just as we register cars. Unfortunately, he also said that he planned on much more restrictive control measures, but that he could only push them through so fast. Much the same way that registering cars hasn't stopped drunk driving, his plan of gun registration won't make any difference either. All it could ever ...