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Heard Senator Hugh Webster (R-Caswell) very much enjoyed and was impressed by his visit with Freepers in Raleigh, NC a couple of weeks ago. Webster was the only member of the General Assembly to vote against the bureaucrat-scripted budget railroaded through Thursday. Senator Hugh actually accepted an invitation and appeared on Black Entertainment Television to answer hostile questions after printing bumper stickers that said "Can't Feed 'Em, Don't Breed 'Em." Freepers can make a big difference by helping Hugh remain your only voice in the General Assembly. Drop him a note of support --- Hughw@ms.ncga.state.nc.us

DJAKOVICA, Yugoslavia — Yet another group of miserable civilians may soon be streaming out of the wretched killing fields of Kosovo. This time it is the Roma, or Gypsies, who are being blamed by the province's surviving ethnic Albanians for siding with their Serbian oppressors. The beginnings of a backlash against the Roma have been taking shape here over the past two days, ever since ethnic Albanian guerrillas began pouring into town in the wake of occupying NATO troops. The guerrillas, members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, have been conducting weapons searches in the two tiny Roma neighborhoods of ...

(Washington, D.C.): Wednesday's edition of the Los Angeles Times provided fresh evidence that Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson is not up to his job, any more than his department is up to that of maintaining the U.S. nuclear arsenal and safeguarding its secrets. Despite a critical report from a bipartisan House Select Committee, chaired by Rep. Chris Cox (R-CA)(1), and an even-more-scathing study by the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, chaired by former Senator Warren Rudman (R-NH)(2), the Times reported that Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson said, "I want to see evidence of [ongoing] nuclear security problems." Secretary Richardson's comments ...

Paris, Saturday, June 19, 1999India and Pakistan Won't Go to WarBy Gerald Segal International Herald TribuneLONDON - Listen to the high-flown rhetoric from Indian and Pakistani leaders or read the hyperbolic warnings of commentators and you would think that the two countries are on the brink of war in Kashmir. But a wider look at the India-Pakistan relationship gives a different perspective. The hype about the risks of war has some obvious sources. Foremost is the clear effort by powerful elements in the Pakistani political and military system to undermine Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Ever since his election, and ...

Paris, Saturday, June 19, 1999Calling Milosevic's Bluff in a Round of Poker DiplomacyBy David Spanier International Herald TribuneLONDON - The Russian move to seize the airport at Pristina was like the sudden advance of a pawn at chess. It was swift, it came as a surprise, it was planned. Though the pawn in itself may not be significant, its strategic value is clear. As usual in diplomacy, the Kosovo crisis shows how the American instinct is to play poker while the Russians rely on chess. It may be noted, first of all, that President Slobodan Milosevic is not a ...

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 parts and the strain of yet another deployment on the most deployed military in the history of the ...

Senator Hugh Webster North Carolina General Assembly, 1101 Legislative Building, Raleigh, North Carolina 27601 (919) 733-5665 Hughw@ms.ncga.state.nc.us Voters Disenfranchised on District Court Judges Raleigh – Senator Hugh Webster (R-Caswell) offered an amendment to the N.C. state Senate budget, Thursday, changing language creating new district court districts. A provision in the new budget adds nine new district court judges throughout the state, including one additional judge in Alamance County. The budget authorizes Governor hunt to appoint the new judges. The appointments last until 2002, two years after Governor Hunt's term expires. Senator Webster sought to amend the budget with an ...

Serbs plead for protection, Kosovo rebels exact revenge, NATO detains 25   7.04 p.m. ET (2304 GMT) June 18, 1999 By Donna Bryson, Associated Press PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- With KLA rebels trying to expand their presence in Kosovo, NATO peacekeepers took 25 rebel members into custody Friday after finding mistreated prisoners at a police station. One elderly man was found dead, chained to a chair. NATO pledged to put more military police on the streets to reinforce its authority and make the troubled province safe for Serbs who are fleeing by the thousands. Adding reinforcements to protect Serbs represents ...

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 U.N. Security Council. The only reason this week's clash in the Yellow Sea did not escalate into all-out war is ``our great patience and self-control,'' he said in the ...

TWO former British soldiers discovered by peacekeeping troops in Kosovo yesterday said they had joined the Kosovo Liberation Army two months ago and killed several Serbs. They were among 60 KLA troops disarmed by Nato forces three miles from Stimlje, on the road to Pristina. Alan Kelly, 47, and Andrew Freeney, 29, said they had been fighting running battles with the Serb army in the mountains of Kosovo along with dozens of Americans and an Italian. Mr Freeney, a former Royal Fusilier from Birmingham, flew to Kosovo after telling his mother he was going to Greece for a holiday. He ...

    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 ...

Carnival turns into nightmare Protest part of global plan Strange mix of defiance and pot plant barricades An anti-capitalist demonstration in the City of London deteriorated into violence yesterday as protesters pelted police with bricks and bottles and attacked financial institutions, causing widespread damage. After more than six hours of rioting and vandalism by up to 4,000 protesters, one woman was known to be in hospital after falling under the wheels of a police van. There were also reports that four police officers received hospital treatment and a male protester was also injured in an incident with a police ...

Europe Shows It Can Act -- At Last PRISTINA, Kosovo, June 19 (Reuters) - Europe went into a ground battle of sorts for the first time since World War Two in the past week, with the only major hitch being the old historical question of where Russia fitted on the strategic map. The successful deployment of NATO-led forces on or ahead of deadline set off back-slapping at headquarters in Brussels and at last put to rest concerns that Europeans could not act decisively together militarily. ``Operation Joint Guardian'' was nowhere near a World War Two ``Battle of the Bulge'' and ...

A declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms. If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason to believe, that the divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others, marked out by his infinite goodness and wisdom, as the objects of a legal domination never rightfully resistible, however severe and oppressive, the inhabitants of these colonies might at least require from the parliament ...

ALBANIAN REFUGEES REFUSE TO STAY IN AUSSIE ARMY BARRACKS News Article Link Canberra, June 16 (CNA) About 80 ethnic Albanian refugees taking temporary shelter in Australia have refused to stay at former army barracks and instead bedded down in buses for the second consecutive night on Tuesday, because of poor accommodations at Singleton, northwest of Sydney. They said the Australian army barracks were no better than the camps they had previously stayed at in Macedonia,falling short of their expectations for better shelter in Australia. The Albanian refugees said the facilities are lacking heat, and toilets are hundreds of meters away ...

The Goldberg File PLAYING HARD TO GET The National Review ZURICH - Doesn’t writing with a dateline sound impressive? Often when you see the dateline on a newspaper article it conveys a certain air of legitimacy it wouldn’t normally have. “BRUSSELS - French officials are reeling over the fact that cheese consumption has fallen below the level necessary to cause blindness…” Now the average reporter writing that in the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal would probably have gotten all that info from the local papers and TV news and perhaps working the phones a bit. But because ...

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Oral sex, as Clinton appears to practice it, is a hit-and-run game. It's a way to shut women up, to stop their nagging. "Kiss it!" Clinton allegedly told Paula Jones when he dropped his pants in the Little Rock hotel room. He wants to be consoled by women's receptive maternalism, but he's too scared to let his slick willy linger long in the dark love chamber. Like Edgar Allan Poe, he shrinks from the razor-sharp pendulum in that pit. Clinton suffers from Freudian ambivalence about women. He drinks deep from their liquid emotionality, which the American people see glistening in ...

3:30 p.m. June 18 update -- Congressmen who claimed the "Mandatory Gun Show Background Act," H.R. 2122, didn't go far enough, and a few who felt it went too far, joined forces to defeat the gun portion of the Juvenile Justice Act. It failed 147-280, with all but 10 Democrats and 82 Republicans opposing it. The White House immediately claimed that "the gun lobby controls the House of Representatives." But the White House plan to blame it all on the Republicans was made more difficult by the fact that "Mr. Democrat," John Dingell, the most senior Democrat in Congress ...

Gore stops to hug teen lesbian at California campaign stop By DAN WHITCOMB LOS ANGELES (June 18, 1999 7:48 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Vice President Al Gore interrupted a question-and-answer session with high school students on Friday to embrace a lesbian teen who broke into tears as she described verbal abuse hurled at her by former classmates. A crowd of several hundred students at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles broke into applause as Gore, two days after he announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, crossed a gymnasium to embrace sobbing senior Jessie Funes. Funes, 17, had been ...