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A Russian Zone By Charles Krauthammer Thursday, June 17, 1999; Page A35 I have never been accused of being a comsymp or a Russophile, but anyone who cares about the success of American foreign policy must believe that the gratuitous humiliation of Russia is simply stupid. Publicly carving Kosovo into five zones -- American, French, British, German and Italian -- leaving nothing to Russia, qualifies as gratuitous humiliation. It is pointless. This administration, in order not to offend Russia, has for years refused to build a defense to protect American citizens from attack by nuclear missiles -- an issue of ...

Our Common Enemy Who, or what is the enemy and common foe of liberty? Simply stated, the enemy of liberty is unwarranted compulsion in any form that violates the unalienable rights of citizens as long as they have not infringed upon and violated the unalienable rights of those around them. Our founders established a governmental form which enumerated these unalienable rights to its citizens. This was initially set forth in the Declaration of Independence with these great, immortal words : "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ...

Timeline of Treason

From: Paul Zimmerman Dear Friends and Comrades in Liberty: I don't know if you are familiar with "The White Rose" but I wanted to share this with you. The White Rose was a group of friends in Nazi Germany who loved their country and their freedom and circulated leaflets calling for the people to resist the Nazis. These brave men and women took great risks and many of them lost their lives. Their story is one of great valor and they are our spiritual brothers and sisters. This is a four part piece that was written by one of ...

Week in Review It has been a great week for the campaign! We elevated the protection of unborn babies to a national issue in the debate with George W. Bush. Our Ten Commandments Protection Act became the congressional response to the Democrats trying to expand government power. We elevated the defense issue in appearances in Tennessee, and challenged Gore's new - and unbelievable - pro-family and pro-religion rhetoric. To finish off the week we have a number of national television interviews in the next few days. Here is the list: Saturday, June 19 I may be part of a story ...

Details of U.S.-Russian Kosovo peacekeeping pact HELSINKI, June 19 (Reuters) - Following are details of the agreement signed on Friday by the United States and Russia on the participation by Russian forces in a peacekeeping mission (KFOR) in Kosovo. The agreement is subject to endorsement by NATO and the Russian government. It comes under the mandate of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1,244 and is within the framework of the military-technical agreement between KFOR and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The agreement provides for unity of command, with the Russian side to exercise ``full political and military control'' over the Russian ...

Sri Lankan Mass Graves Uncovered By NADESA PILLAI VITHYTHARAN The Associated Press JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (AP) - Wailing mothers and sobbing fathers filed past scraps of clothing and two human skeletons displayed on wooden tables in a police station Friday to determine if the remains belonged to some 300 people who disappeared while in military custody. The skeletons - one blindfolded and bound - were exhumed Thursday at a site in northern Sri Lanka where a former soldier said he helped bury bodies in mass graves. The remains will be sent to experts for further examination. The skeletons were identified ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Rutherford Institute has sued the Arlington Police Department on behalf of a former police sergeant fired for wearing a cross-shaped pin on his uniform. George Daniels, a 13-year veteran of the force, was fired in September for wearing a half-inch gold cross pin on his uniform collar. According to department policy, any unauthorized pins must be approved by the police chief. Chief David Kunkle had specifically forbidden Daniels to wear the pin. Frank Waite, a city attorney representing the police department, said he was not at liberty to discuss the lawsuit filed on June 14 but ...

Christian rights group told to cut ties with UN By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, June 18 (Reuters) - A Swiss-based Christian charity group which campaigns against slavery in Sudan said on Friday a decision by a U.N. panel to withdraw its U.N. accreditation was a ``vote of shame.'' The United States was alone late on Thursday in voting against the withdrawal of credentials from Christian Solidarity International (CSI). In January the group bought the freedom of 1,050 slaves, mainly children, for $50 per person. The U.N. panel's decision has to be reviewed by the 54-nation U.N. Economic and Social Council ...

Clinton hails deal with Russia on Kosovo peace force Kyodo News Service COLOGNE, Germany, June 19 (Kyodo) - By: Keiji Urakami U.S. President Bill Clinton on Friday hailed an agreement struck in Helsinki between the United States and Russia that defines the role of Russian troops in the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo. ''I am fully supportive of this agreement and very pleased by it,'' Clinton told reporters after attending a working dinner with his Group of Eight (G-8) colleagues in Cologne, Germany, which focused on issues related to Kosovo. In Helsinki earlier in the day, U.S. Defense Secretary William ...

U.N. renews mandates of Bosnia peace missions UNITED NATIONS, June 18 (Reuters) - The Security Council unanimously authorised on Friday a 12-month renewal of the 32,500-strong NATO-led stabilisation force (SFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina and a U.N. mission there mainly comprising 1,900 police. Both the U.N. Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) and SFOR were established to carry out provisions of the United States-mediated 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended nearly four years of fighting. SFOR includes troops from all 19 NATO members and 17 non-NATO countries while the police task force is drawn from more than 40 nations. The International Police ...

Gov. Jeb Bush's Wife Fined $4,100 The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush's wife was fined by customs officials in Atlanta for failing to declare $19,000 in clothing and jewelry she bought during a trip to Paris. Columba Bush paid Customs a $4,100 fine for failing to declare the merchandise Thursday, the Bushes said in a statement released Friday. The governor said he and his wife ``deeply regret this mistake.'' ``I am sorry for exercising bad judgment and can assure everyone this will never happen again,'' Mrs. Bush said. Mrs. Bush spent five days in Paris, arriving ...

Latest at Stratfor.Com Kosovo Crisis Center 2355 GMT, 990618 - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has asked permission to be allowed access to ethnic Albanian detainees in Serbia. The ICRC office in Belgrade reported that Dominique Dufour, head of the ICRC delegation to Yugoslavia, met with Serbian justice minister Dragoljub Jankovic. The ICRC did not provide any details on the meeting. Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported the Justice Ministry gave the ICRC permission to "visit penitentiary establishments." 2345 GMT, 990618 - The Albanian government, the UNHCR, and KFOR announced a plan to return ethnic Albanian refugees to ...

Clearly, the Democratic party is doing all it can to disarm the American public. Why?

America's police departments are gearing up for complete gun confiscation. While Janet Reno is putting the brakes on the police for going after minorities with "profile stops", the police are going to need new enemy for their "war on crime" - the gun owner. I believe Clinton later this year will sign an executive order outlawing ALL handguns. This will be like a kid in the candy store for the gung-ho Rambo type cops out there. So Joe Sixpacks ... get your weapons and prepare to turn them over to the good police officers - for the children!

Court Backs Gore Dissenter's Suit The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a woman who dissented from the findings of a White House panel chaired by Vice President Al Gore has the right to the same information as other commissioners. M. Victoria Cummock, appointed by the president to a special commission on aviation safety in the wake of the TWA Flight 800 air disaster, sued Gore and others on the panel, saying she had been denied access to a ``classified annex,'' but never got the document despite her security clearance. Cummock also said she ...

HELSINKI (AP) -- U.S. and Russian negotiators signed an agreement Friday on Kosovo peacekeeping arrangements, ending an impasse that began a week ago when 200 Russian troops surprised NATO by rolling into the Pristina airport ahead of the alliance. U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen said Russia and Washington had reached an agreement "on terms that meet the requirements of both NATO and Russia." "It preserves the unity of (NATO) command ... and it gives Russia a unique role by providing for operations of Russian forces" within sectors controlled by NATO members. Russian troops will serve under Russian command and ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Arsonists struck three of the area's five synagogues within minutes early Friday, and a leaflet blaming the "International Jew World Order" for the war in Kosovo was left behind.The fires caused moderate damage to two synagogues and gutted a third temple's library, destroying a collection of videos on Jewish history."Hate is hate. You can't predict when it will happen," Lou Anapolsky, president of the Congregation B'nai Israel, said Friday morning, standing in front of the congregation's burned library.The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is handling the investigation and assumes it is a hate crime, ...

North Korea accuses U.S. of trying to unleash new Korean War UNITED NATIONS (AP) - North Korea accused the United States on Friday of trying to unleash a new war on the Korean peninsula by deploying advanced weapons and provoking South Korea to fire on North Korean naval ships this week. ``The touch-and-go situation is now created in the Korean peninsula where a war may break out any time,'' North Korea's U.N. Ambassador Li Hyong Chol warned in a letter to the Security Council. The latest tensions involve rich crab fishing territory claimed by both Koreas off the peninsula's western ...

PARIS -- President Clinton said Thursday that NATO will not launch a raid to arrest Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on war crimes charges. Clinton spoke as the British-led international military force in Kosovo continued to find suspected mass graves and charred bodies apparently linked to the murderous campaign by Yugoslavia's Serbians to rid Kosovo of ethnic Albanian Muslims. Allied troops would arrest Milosevic and other indicted Yugoslav war criminals only if they come across the suspects in Kosovo or elsewhere in the world, Clinton told a joint news conference with French President Jacques Chirac before flying to Cologne, Germany, for ...