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President Clinton accused the National Rifle Association gun lobby Saturday of using ``every weapon in its arsenal'' to defeat a gun control measure he had supported. For the third day in a row on his European tour, Clinton singled out the NRA for harsh criticism for its lobbying tactics, which helped block a proposal in the House of Representatives for three-day background checks of buyers at gun shows. Clinton, in his weekly radio address, said the plea of many parents in the aftermath of the April 20 school massacre in Littleton, Colorado, has been to ``do more to keep guns ...

To Keep And Bear Arms- Right Or Duty? In 1789, the First Congress assigned James Madison to write a Bill of Rights. Madison worked from a pamphlet of State proposals; one of these proposals dealt with an armed citizenry. This proposal, which eventually became the Second Amendment, was neither novel, new, nor simply the result of the Revolutionary War. Indeed, the idea of an armed citizenry if far older that that. Here is a timeline: 872 A.D.- Alfred the Great orders all English citizens to privately purchase weapons and be available for military service. 1181- The Assize of Arms ...

Texas Gun Law a Campaign Issue By STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Almost as soon as it was signed into law, a state measure blocking Texas cities from suing gun and ammunition makers and dealers has become an issue between presidential hopefuls. Elsewhere around the nation, nearly two dozen cities and counties - including Miami, Chicago, New Orleans and Detroit - have sued gun makers in efforts to recover damages for crimes involving firearms. Gun manufacturers say they should not be held responsible for accidents or criminal acts. The leading GOP candidate for president, Texas ...

CHURCH FOR AMERICAN CHRISTIANS AND PATRIOTS A Full Gospel, Nondenominational, Fundamental Christian Church Rev. Robert M. Celeste Minister of Christ Assembly of Churches Sunday June 20th thru June 26th, 1999 The words spoken directly by God the Father are in purple. The words spoken directly by God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ are in red. Father's Day sermon A MAN IN GOD'S EYES Today, on Father's Day 1999 we men have a choice. We can be men in God's eyes or we can be men in the eyes of Clinton, his minions and his ilk. We cannot do both, ...

Mich. Congressman, Party at Odds By CATHERINE STRONG The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The walls of John Dingell's House office are lined with a hunter's trophies - a boar's head, elk antlers, a deer head. Intermingled are the pictures of the Michigan congressman with his political allies. One photo shows Dingell and his fellow Democrat Bill Clinton on a duck hunting trip. On many issues the president and the congressman are allies. But on the House showdown over gun control, Dingell's choice was clear: He broke with the president and sided with his longtime friends in the National Rifle ...

Navy Unit Frowns on Fraternizing By BILL KACZOR The Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - The commander of the Blue Angels investigated and found nothing to a rumor that one of his pilots was having an affair with a female officer in the Navy's precision flying squadron. But that was not the end of the story in this time of heightened sensitivity about male-female relationships in the military. On June 8, both officers still ended up being removed from the team, based at Pensacola Naval Air Station. They were reassigned for disobeying written and verbal orders to avoid contact, to ...

Sen. Calls for Energy Dept. Overhaul Arizona Republican Accuses Clinton of Taking 'Half Measures' With Security Problems By H. JOSEF HEBERT The Associated Press WASHINGTON (June 19) - Congressional Republicans pressed their case Saturday for a reorganization of the Energy Department in response to the continuing controversy over the safeguarding of America's nuclear secrets. Using the weekly GOP radio address, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., accused the Clinton administration of taking ''half measures'' in dealing with security at nuclear weapons laboratories. Kyl is one of three GOP senators who have proposed putting nuclear weapons programs under a largely autonomous agency within ...

Independent Counsel Law Unmourned Law Lapses in 10 Days; Starr Investigation Can Still Run It's Course By WALTER R. MEARS The Associated Press WASHINGTON (June 19) - Kenneth W. Starr may go out with a bang, but the law that sent him in pursuit of President Clinton is expiring without so much as a whimper. The independent counsel act lapses in 10 days, unmentioned and unmourned, the debate about extending it over, probably before it began. Versions of it have been in effect for two decades. There have been at least 21 special prosecutors under its terms, an approximate count ...

Brits: Serbs Must Give Up Milosevic The Associated Press LONDON (June 18) - Britain said today that Yugoslavia must surrender President Slobodan Milosevic and others accused of war crimes if the country wants to rejoin the international community. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said the NATO alliance had a ''very real commitment'' to bringing war crimes suspects accused of human rights violations in Kosovo to trial before the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. ''It will be expected as a member of the international community to surrender those war criminals inside Serbia,'' Cook said in a British Broadcasting Corp. radio interview. ...

NATO to Sign Pact With KLA NATO Promises More Military Police in Kosovo By DONNA BRYSO The Associated Press PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (June 19) - Concerned about reports of revenge attacks by ethnic Albanian rebels, NATO has pledged to put more military police on the streets of Kosovo to make the shattered province safe for Serbs fleeing by the thousands. In a further effort to keep order in Kosovo, NATO intended to sign an agreement today with the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army specifying terms of its demilitarization, alliance spokesman Maj. Jam Yoosten said. While NATO forces seek to impose control, Serb ...

Leaders Debate Reconstruction of Kosovo Russia Wants Milosevic, Yugoslavia Included in Rebuilding Efforts By MAUREEN JOHNSON The Associated Press COLOGNE, Germany (June 19) - World leaders today haggled over a promised huge reconstruction program for Kosovo as Russia sought to include Yugoslavia in the deal even though President Slobodan Milosevic remains in power. On the second day of their annual summit, President Clinton and the leaders of the United States, five other NATO nations and Japan attempted to block Russia diplomatically, and spent much of today's closed door sessions trying to agree on a Kosovo statement. Russia is already smarting ...

EAST HADDAM, Conn. - One of the U.S. Senate's most eligible bachelors is eligible no more. U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., was wed Friday evening to Jackie Marie Clegg, the vice chairwoman and chief operating officer of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The couple, who have been dating for about 10 years, were married in a ceremony attended by about 60 guests, mostly friends and family, at the senator's home. It was the 55-year-old senator's second marriage. His first ended in divorce several years ago. Clegg, who lives in Washington D.C., is from Orem, Utah. She campaigned with ...

Last Saturday morning Boris Yeltsin woke up in one of his many presidential residences in the forests west of Moscow. It was a gorgeous summer day, and tens of thousands of Muscovites were already heading out to their country cottages and gardens. In a few hours time the Russian leader would be heading back into town in his black Mercedes for a special party in the Kremlin. Saturday was Constitution day in Russia - a time for Mr Yeltsin and his friends to celebrate a document which gives the president sweeping, and virtually unchecked powers over the world's largest country. ...

I am listing all the Rhodes Scholars from 1960 a year at a time as I have the time to add them. Do with the list's as you will. The date given is the year they started the program, not the year they finished. ASHMAN, ROBERT FREDERICK 1960 BALABANIAN, DAVID MARK 1960 BLAKE, JONATHAN DEWEY 1960 BRYANT, RALPH CLEMENT 1960 CELESTE, RICHARD FRANK 1960 DARNTON, ROBERT CHOATE 1960 DUGGAN, HOYT NOLAN 1960 EDGE, ROBERT GLENN 1960 EPSTEIN, LESLIE 1960 GIARD, GEORGE PETER JR. 1960 GRINALDS, JOHN SOUTHY 1960 HORTON, JACK OGILVIE 1960 KASLOW, HOWARD JAMES 1960 KEYS, LANGLEY CARLETON 1960 ...

Inside Cover hears that a certain Clinton cabinet secretary is so addicted to cigars that the apartment underneath is constantly filled with his errant smoke, causing his smoke-free neighbor endless grief. The neighbor complains but to no avail. The well-connected cigar aficionado simply ignores her. And so now the neighbor is contemplating a lawsuit. What a spectacle that would be -- a representative of the most anti-smoking administration in American history hauled into court for indulging in the pleasures of the evil weed. And, no doubt, with reckless disregard for the complainant's health. The embarrassment could be compounded by ...

A proposal nearing enactment on Beacon Hill may help Lena Sanford pay her medication bills. But not much. The 73-year-old Cambridge resident falls in a category - elders and disabled people with catastrophic drug costs - that seems to escape lawmakers' notice as they draft fixes to one of the most vexing health care problems of the day. The Senate-passed senior pharmacy bill is more generous than the House version. But even if the Senate's prevails in joint deliberations now underway, the new $1,500 annual benefit will cover less than 10 percent of Sanford's pharmacy costs, which run $16,380 ...

8 PAKISTANI SOLDIERS KILLED New Delhi: (The Times of India News Service, Agencies) - Indian troops on Saturday launched the final assault to recapture Jhubber and Kokerthang ridges while fierce fighting was on in Batalik, Drass and Tiger Hills areas. The troops also killed eight intruders and destroyed four enemy ``sangars'' (field fortifications). A large quantity of ammunition and three universal machine guns were recovered from the area north of Tololing. Sources said the final assault to recapture Tiger Hills, described as the ``hub'' of the infiltrators, was progressing as per plans and there was intense exchange of artillery ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Bay Harbor resort caters to megabucks If you want a caddy, you're on your own. Otherwise, metro Detroiters with money to burn find little lacking in a private airline that shuttles dozens of golfers and property owners between Oakland County International Airport and the exclusive Bay Harbor resort each week. "They do everything but carry you piggyback from your car," said Larry Hudas, 59, of Bloomfield Hills, a frequent flier on a King Air 200 turboprop owned by Avastar Jet Charter service. The Bay Harbor Golf Club, operated by Boyne USA, ...

Buchanan proposes tariff on wheat Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press MANDAN, N.D. (June 18, 1999 3:18 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Slapping a tariff on imported wheat would, Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan said, help deter foreign sales in the United States at a time when American farmers are not covering their own costs. He advocates a tariff on imported farm commodities to equalize the price with U.S. production costs. The revenue could be used to cut taxes, he said. "When the price of wheat falls below the cost of production, why are you importing wheat? ...

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