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Central NY, After the Meet Report! EAGLES UP!! The meeting was held at the Ramada Inn, in Liverpool NY at 1:30 pm., Crossroads of Interstate I-81 & I90 (NYS Thruway). 27 individual emails were received during the intial startup phase of "The Gathering of Eagles", Due to Graduations, Wedding's (there was a wedding there, we should have invited themJ) close to 20 had to cancel, however we picked up 3 more in the straggler column due mostly to Couple I want to thank, D&M M.!! WE HAD A GREAT GROUP!!, For those that are thinking of getting going, this is ...

We Hold These Values To Be Our Preferences? By Thomas L. Krannawitter {Will appear in the June 20, 1999 edition of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review} Is a "self-evident truth" really true? Is it proper for educators to teach the Declaration of Independence, which puts forth a series of self-evident truths? For most Americans, throughout most of American history, the answer to both these questions would be an immediate, "Of course." Today it's debatable. In fact, it's being debated in Trenton, New Jersey at this very moment. An amazing story is unfolding in the New Jersey state legislature. A bill just ...

Clinton Pushes for Strong Gun Laws By SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press Writer COLOGNE, Germany (AP) - President Clinton challenged lawmakers in Washington to ``learn from the lessons of Littleton'' and mark the two-month anniversary of the Colorado school shooting by undoing their vote against gun control. His weekly radio address, taped here and broadcast back home, aimed to stir public anger over what Clinton said was a congressional majority taking its orders from the National Rifle Association. ``We can't allow the gun lobby to rewrite our laws and undermine our values,'' Clinton said. To the NRA, he said, ``I wish ...

ISI USING NEPAL AS SPRINGBOARDThe HinduSaturday, June 19, 1999 Patna, June 19 - The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan, using Nepal as a springboard, has intensified its trans-border operations against India in the border areas of north eastern Bihar and north Bengal following intrusion of the Pakistani army and militants in the Kargil sector. Siliguri in north Bengal and Kishenganj and Purnea districts, located at the tri-junction of India, Nepal and West Bengal, are the focal point of anti-Indian operations where the ISI is smuggling arms, narcotics and counterfeit Indian currency, according to high level intelligence sources. Nine ISI agents ...

Somalian Warlord Gets Arms Shipment The Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - More than 125 tons of weapons and munitions destined for warlord Hussein Aidid, including 5,000 AK-47 assault rifles, were unloaded Saturday from an unmarked ship at Fah, an Indian Ocean coastal village north of the Somali capital, witnesses said. The witnesses, who are close to businessmen involved in the deal, said the consignment was the third for Aidid from the Eritrean government. The anti-aircraft heavy machine-guns, German-made G-3 rifles and AK-47s as well as ammunition and explosives soon would be shipped 310 miles south from Fah to Mogadishu, ...

Serb Gov't Hiding Kosovo Exodus By CANDICE HUGHES The Associated Press KRALJEVO, Yugoslavia (AP) - Bedraggled convoys of tractors pulling wagons crammed with Serb women, children and household goods are a powerful symbol of the Kosovo debacle - one that President Slobodan Milosevic's government is desperate to hide. An estimated 50,000 people have fled the province since Serb forces pulled out last week. They are camped outside Kosovo in southern Serbia - depressed, desperate and outraged at a government that is scrambling to render them invisible. ``If Milosevic were here, I'd strangle him with my bare hands,'' Punisha Rasovic, a ...

Gadhafi Tours Bombed Sudanese Plant By MOHAMED OSMAN The Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi quietly toured the ruins Saturday of a pharmaceutical factory destroyed nearly a year ago by U.S. missiles. Gadhafi walked through paved lower areas of the destroyed El-Shifa factory beside Sudan's president, Gen. Omar el-Bashir, who explained what various pieces of debris once had been. Gadhafi nodded, but did not comment. Earlier Saturday, state-run Omdurman radio quoted Gadhafi as saying the United States committed ``a criminal, unjust act'' when it fired the cruise missiles in August 1998. The missile strikes amounted to ...

Stratfor.com: Kosovo Crisis Center 990619 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said on June 19 the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and Britain's Scotland Yard have started examining alleged war crimes sites in Kosovo. The ICTY said the number of suspected sites was larger than expected. The sites' locations or number of FBI and Scotland Yard personnel conducting the investigations was not specified. 990619 - Gennady Seleznev, speaker of the Duma lower house of parliament, said on June 19 the Russia-U.S. accord on Moscow's role in the Kosovo peacekeeping mission was "reasonable." Seleznev said the ...

The American Medical Association suffered its largest operating deficit of the decade in 1998, stoked by rising expenses and a dip in membership. Total membership fell by 2,669 to 290,958, down nearly 1%. The drop came despite pilot programs to offer reduced dues in cooperation with state medical societies and increased recruitment of students and residents. Executive Vice President E. Ratcliffe Anderson Jr., M.D., pledged in June 1998 to improve member services and increase the rolls. The AMA's $5.4 million after-tax loss exceeded a $1.7 million operating shortfall in 1997, according to an auditor's report released in advance of the ...

"TIMELINE OF TREASON" pt.1 will be posted to The Joshua Files and Joshua Report #28 will be posted this coming week. Timeline of Treason can be read or downloaded at the site below. The Joshua Files

In the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt. I was singer to my clan in that dim, red Dawn of Man, And I sang of all we fought and feared and felt. Yea, I sang as now I sing, when the Prehistoric spring Made the piled Biscayan ice-pack split and shove; And the troll and gnome and dwerg, and the Gods of Cliff and Berg Were about me and beneath me and above. But a rival, of Solutre, told the tribe my style was outre-- 'Neath a tomahawk, of diorite, he ...

BETSY HART: Secretly taking over the Internet ICANN may sound like the mantra of a self-help group. In reality, it's a little known, rather mysterious organization with extraordinary authority - though no one quite knows from whence that authority comes - that may be helping itself to control of the Internet. Anyone who says "But no one can control cyberspace" is wrong. What makes the Internet work, what successfully moves message traffic from your computer to Aunt Sally's e-mail box or the online bookstore, is a network managed by "root servers" of which there are 13 in the world - ...

PAUL TAYLOR: How the war was spun LONDON--The West won the international propaganda war over Kosovo, but the conflict poses some awkward ethical questions for the media. Foreign news organizations in Belgrade faced severe restrictions on their movements during the 78 days of NATO bombing and in some cases threats to their staff and expulsions. They were allowed to cover rock concerts held to boost Serb morale and rallies on Danube River bridges threatened by cruise missiles, but mostly denied access to Kosovo - except when NATO accidentally bombed ethnic Albanian refugees. On the Western side, the media were deluged ...

NATO planners over-estimated the damage inflicted on Milosevic's war machine in Kosovo, according to senior defence analysts. As Nato experts, including soldiers of the SAS, scoured Kosovo to establish how much Serb military equipment was destroyed in the air campaign, the Pentagon released figures that called into doubt Nato's early bullish estimates. The move came after hundreds of tanks, armoured cars and artillery pieces were monitored withdrawing from Kosovo. Their survival after the 11-week bombing campaign surprised many Nato officers. In the final stages of the air assault, the Pentagon claimed that Nato had destroyed a quarter of Milosevic's ...

Here's a Father's Day challenge: Think about the TV dads in the early years of the medium. Think about Ward Cleaver on "Leave it to Beaver" or Steve Douglas, the character Fred MacMurray played on "My Three Sons." Now try to plug those dads into the following plots from a contemporary sitcom: -The men take a camping trip and accidentally kill an endangered whooping crane. -Dad's antismoking lesson leads to his whole family becoming addicted to nicotine. -Dad accidentally uses crack cocaine for fish bait, getting fish hooked. The family guy on the screen in your living room has ...

JAY AMBROSE: Preaching to the voters One day soon, an observer can't help suspecting, Al Gore and George W. Bush will start giving their presidential campaign speeches with their collars reversed, so eager do both seem to impress the voting public with their deep religious convictions. Their similarly expressed devotion will not necessarily translate into similar policy positions, of course, but on one matter it comes close. Both candidates want the government to lean more heavily on the charitable effectiveness of faith-based organizations. In fact, many such groups - the Salvation Army comes most immediately to mind - are powerful ...

Morality at 15,000 Feet John Cardinal O'Connor of New York was a chaplain with the Marines during the Vietnam War -- sometimes under fire. He wrote a book, "A Chaplain Looks at Vietnam," justifying that war. Years later, he told me: "That was a bad book. I regret having published it. I didn't take enough account of the enormous cost in lives, resources and the brutalization of some of the American troops." During the bombing of Yugoslavia, the cardinal, writing in his weekly column in the newspaper Catholic New York, questioned whether this war has been a "just war." It ...

What was widely suspected is now known. While NATO bombs were falling on Yugoslavia and killing hundreds of Serb civilians and ethnic Albanians, Serbs in Kosovo were killing ethnic Albanians - at least 10,000, perhaps many more. As evidence of mass graves, bodies thrown down wells, torture chambers and every imaginable cruelty mounts, the human scale of this tragedy must not blind us to it. If there are ways to bring the perpetrators to justice, they should be pursued. That said, for NATO now to use evidence of Serb atrocities as retroactive justification for the 78-day air war may ...

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Yeltsin Prepares To Sell His Plan By ANGELA CHARLTON The Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) - President Boris Yeltsin intends to tell other leaders at a summit in Germany on Sunday that Russia expects to be treated equally on the world stage despite its flailing economy and declining power. On the eve of Yeltsin's arrival in Germany, Der Spiegel magazine carried an interview with Yeltsin in which he called NATO'S bombing of Yugoslavia - a Russian ally - an attempt ``to drag us back into the Stone Age.'' ``In our eyes, an extremely dangerous precedent for solving conflicts has been set,'' ...