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Forbes Opens N.H. Headquarters By GENE JOHNSON The Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Steve Forbes opened his New Hampshire campaign headquarters Friday, pledging to build a strong network of volunteers to help spread his ``positive, substantive message of political change.'' Forbes' grass-roots efforts represent a change from his 1996 run for the White House, when he relied almost exclusively on advertising. ``With the compressed caucus and primary calendar, an intense, experienced and enthusiastic ground operation is crucial,'' he said. The Republican presidential hopeful released a list of 321 volunteers he said are ready to rally support in 144 New ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) -- After welcoming the latest breakthrough in Kosovo diplomacy Friday night, President Clinton allowed himself a little splurge: a $52 porcelain figurine of a clown playing a saxophone. Outside Sweetheart, a shop that sells traditional Christmas and Carnival knickknacks and local souvenirs near the city's cathedral, hundreds of eager residents strained for a glimpse of the president. ``Look for the light gray hair! That's him!'' a group of friends shouted to a woman perched on her boyfriend's shoulders. Clinton emerged with a big smile, strolled to the edge of the crowd and clasped a few of the ...

Bush Gets Endorsements The Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - George W. Bush gained two more Republican endorsements Friday in his quest for the White House. Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns and Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon are the latest GOP officials to back the Republican front-runner. ``He's tested as a chief executive and in my judgment, he has passed this test,'' Johanns said. ``He is truly a leader.'' Smith, who will also serve as Bush's Oregon state chairman, said Bush's record as Texas governor sets him apart from the GOP field. ``He has been able to bring disparate opinions together ...

An amendment that slipped by District of Columbia lawmakers in the House would repeal D.C.'s ban on handgun ownership, the Washington Post reported June 17. The one-sentence amendment was part of a stack of additions approved Tuesday by the U.S. House of Representatives Rules Committee for consideration as part of the national debate on gun control. The amendment was introduced by Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. (D-Va.) because he said the District's ban on handgun ownership violates the Constitution's right to bear arms. "I believe in the Second Amendment. The Constitution stands above home government," said Goode. "If you can't ...

Gore Aims at Bush on Gun Control By SCOTT LINDLAW The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Vice President Al Gore took direct aim at George W. Bush on Friday, accusing the Texas governor of being soft on gun control for signing a bill limiting cities' ability to sue firearms manufacturers and dealers. ``The stakes are too high for any presidential candidate to stand on the sidelines'' of the gun-control debate, Gore said. Gore never mentioned Bush by name, but his reference to the Texas bill was an unmistakable shot at the leading Republican presidential contender. Gore's political aides dispatched ...

June 18, 1999 /4 Tamuz, 5759 Thomas Sowell A famous victory http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- NOW THAT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC has made yet another agreement with NATO, the Clinton administration has declared victory and its media allies have joined the chorus of congratulation. Yet the question must be asked: What is there to celebrate? Who is better off now -- and for how long? It is not nearly as difficult to get Milosevic to sign agreements as it is to get him to live up to them. Now the Russians have become a wild card in the game, creating new problems from day ...

U.S. analysts believe China WTO talks could resume By David Storey WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Beijing's brusque rejection of Washington's explanation of the bombing of China's Belgrade embassy does not preclude resuming talks on China joining the World Trade Organisation soon, analysts said on Friday. But they said broader relations were still badly damaged and that both sides must be careful to avoid diplomatic mistakes that could sink chances of reviving the suspended WTO talks and securing agreement by a November deadline. ``They're doing a little dance here on both sides,'' said Patrick Cronin, Director of Research at the ...

U.S., North Korea to meet in Beijing next week WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. special envoy to Korean peace talks, Ambassador Charles Kartman, will meet a North Korean official in the Chinese capital Beijing on Wednesday, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. The meeting with Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan was planned before this week's naval confrontation between North and South Korea in the Yellow Sea, a U.S. official said. Kartman and Kim will talk about the results of last month's U.S. visit to an underground building site, four-party talks on Korea in Geneva in August ...

The following nugget is found at page 4293 of Linda Tripp's grand jury testimony: "Q: Did Monica Lewinsky and the President discuss the possibility of other jobs, particularly in the media? A: Yes. The President suggested when he wanted a list of-- a wish list of where she wanted to go-- and she had vague ideas, but nothing specific enough to allow him to have a specific clear idea, they talked about networks. And he instantly said that someone who would do anything he asked was someone named-- I think his first name is Richard, but Kaplan at CNN, ...

Doctor arrested in child sex case BY FEDERAL COURT REPORTER An Oak Park gynecologist was arrested Thursday in an undercover sting for allegedly using the Internet in an effort to lure a person he believed to be a 13-year-old girl into sex. Mark Levine, 39, of the 900 block of North East Avenue in Oak Park, was carrying condoms, other contraceptives, two X-rated videos and a stethoscope inside a black bag when he was arrested Thursday morning at a Chicago apartment complex, authorities said. After more than two months of chatting and exchanging e-mail, Levine was expecting Thursday to finally ...

The following are some letters to the editors of People magazine about the Famous Chef, Julia Child. Julia uses the incisors that God gave her and eats meat. For your entertainment:::::::: I read Julia Child's view on vegetarians and found them unsophisticated, uninformative and trite. The sensual pleasure she derives from eating dead flesh - a practice called necrophagy- gives rise to a flesh addiction that is no different from other substance addictions. One who, like Child, love feeding on flesh would obviously be bothered by ethical vegetarians who oppose blood violence and the taking of other lives merely for ...

Another "executed" Kosovar leader back from the dead By Barry Grey 18 June 1999 How reliable are the press accounts of Serb atrocities in Kosovo? Consider the following item published June 17 by the Boston Globe: ÒKosovo Albanian who was believed dead is alive and well, British official says.Ó The article by Kevin Cullen, dateline Pristina, reports that Veton Surroi, an ethnic Albanian leader with close ties to NATO leaders, met with senior British officials earlier in the week. The meeting is newsworthy because last March 29 NATO announced that Surroi had been murdered by Serb forces, a claim that ...

NRA Gets Its 'Traction' Back And Wins Gun Votes By Joanne Kenen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was a good week for the National Rifle Association. After losing hard-fought battles in the Senate last month, the NRA, America's powerful gun lobby, recovered lost ground when the House of Representatives Friday first weakened, then killed altogether, its own attempt at gun legislation. The vote underscored the formidable clout of the lobby, which many lawmakers consider the best in the business, and frustrated gun control advocates who failed to push through a modest agenda, even after the Columbine school massacre. ``The NRA got ...

PAKISTAN'S GAMBLE Second Opinion For the Pakistani Army and its ally ISI, conducting proxy war against India for the last one decade, it was too much of a temptation to resist occupying the desolate barren hills ranging in heights from 15,000 ft to 17,000 ft. The area is across the LoC in Batalik-Kargil-Dras region and adjacent to Siachen sector, which the Indian Army vacates in winters to again return back when the snow melts in summer. In this sector, the LOC is nearest to the Indian National Highway 1A, connecting Srinagar to Leh and the lifeline for troops deployed ...

Conservative, Rural Democrats Go Their Own Way on Gun Control By Jonathan D. Salant WASHINGTON — Most of the 45 House Democrats who bucked their party by voting to loosen background checks at gun shows hail from districts with lots of hunters or other conservative voters. They're much more likely than other Democrats to have received donations from the National Rifle Association. And some had to stave off strong Republican challenges last fall. "Democrats are reflecting, in many of these cases, their constituents and their districts," said Democratic political consultant Peter Fenn. The bill that carried the divisive amendment ultimately ...

Great Weather for a Freep! Saturday 78 & Sunny, except if you are Al Gore

The International Space Station was sailing along in orbit when, late last week, the Air Force told NASA a piece of space junk — a used Russian rocket — would pass too close for comfort. But when controllers tried to move the station, they could not. In fact, the station’s computer shut down the whole steering system for 90 minutes before engineers could regain control. But the rocket debris ended up passing at a safe distance, anyway. Faulty Instructions A collision could have destroyed the empty outpost, which has been in orbit for only seven months. The first residents ...

"The Third-Way Movement seeks to do nothing less than fundamentally shift the center of gravity around which the world has organized itself politically for the last 200 years, away from sovereign nation states and toward a set of interlocking, supra-national bureaucracies, each specialized in its own niche-from the IMF and World Bank, to the various world courts, to the Kyoto Protocols, to NATO. They seek no less than a new, post-national world order, stitched together like a monstrous bureaucratic Frankenstein, in which sovereign nation states increasingly cede to unelected and unaccountable international bureaucracies their power and authority to tax ...

Luke 11:37-46. "When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so He went in and reclined at the table. But the Pharisee, noticing that Jesus did not first wash before the meal, was surprised. "Then the Lord said to him, 'Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But give what is inside the dish to the poor, and everything will be clean for you. " 'Woe ...

For fair use Salon Feature | Clinton's stealth China policy To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > News June 17, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/06/17/china Clinton's stealth China policy The president would rather look like a bumbler than own up to a policy that ignores China's wrongdoing, from campaign finance to nuclear espionage. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Christopher Hitchens Why does President Clinton not emulate his role model, Richard Nixon (at whose funeral he was so husky and forgiving), and deflect domestic and foreign criticism ...