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OHR Press Release Steering Board Deeply Concerned About Lack of Progress Sarajevo, 18 June 1999 Meeting in Brussels on June 15 at the level of political directors, the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council expressed its deep concern about the lack of progress in the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement and the Madrid Conclusions. Specifically, the Steering Board is alarmed by the inadequate level of functioning of the Common Institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in particular the BiH Parliament. The efficiency of these Institutions must be immediately and considerably ameliorated. In that context, the Steering Board ...

Lautenberg Rejects Party's Plea to Oppose Whitman for Senate By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI TRENTON, N.J. -- Fearing that they don't have a candidate who can defeat Christie Whitman and retain a Senate seat their party has held for almost two decades, Democrats from President Clinton on down urged Sen. Frank Lautenberg last month to cancel his plans to retire and instead run for re-election, Democratic officials say. But Lautenberg, 75, said Friday that after considering the idea, he told party officials he would not run again next year. "I made a decision that I plan to stick by," said Lautenberg, who ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: California Changes GOP Primary Plan By SCOTT LINDLAW Associated Press Writer ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) -- California Republican party leaders voted Saturday to change their presidential primary from a ``winner-take-all'' system to one that would allow multiple candidates to split the state's many delegates. The party's executive committee voted 52-12 to change the system for California's March 7, 2000 primary. Backers of the change said it would make the candidates focus their campaigns earlier and thus help produce stronger party support for the eventual presidential nominee. But it was also seen as a signal to ...

A total of eight FReepers spent the better part of four hours protesting at the White House today. Warm, mostly sunny skies graced our presence, continuing a remarkable streak of fair weather that, with the exception of three Saturdays, goes back to the first FReeper WH protest on Sept. 23, 1998.First to arrive--around 10 a.m.--were Doctor Raoul, ELS, Dirtboy, and Kerm. They told me that they were enthusiastically received, but were soon forced to leave because of a bomb scare.I met them around 11 a.m. at Lafayette Park, and after a brief set-up period, we gathered at the Northeast gate ...

As Serb civilians continue to flee Kosovo with the retreating Yugoslav troops, their houses are being burnt to the ground in apparent acts of vengeance. Near the town of Prizren, plumes of dark grey smoke from hundreds of fires can be seen rising over the countryside. BBC correspondent Clive Myrie, who is in the area, says the attacks appear to be reprisals by Kosovo Albanians, seeking revenge after months of violent repression at the hands of the Serbs. Local people say they believe the fires were started by Kosovo Albanians, an accusation supported by a unit commander from the Kosovo ...

LIBERTIES / By MAUREEN DOWD The God Squad Talk about profiles in courage. After Columbine, the politicians in Congress assembled, worked up their nerve and pounded together some legislation to help stop horrific high school shootings. Their solution: Take two tablets; slap them above every blackboard in American classrooms. They could have gone with the obvious approach -- do something to make it harder for teen-agers and crazy people to get guns. But noooooo. This is Washington, home of the opportunistic and the polled. So they went the craven (i.e., the usual) route, passing a measure to allow the Ten ...

Mr. DeLay's Power Play New York Times Sunday Editorial That was one embarrassing week for Dennis Hastert. When the House blocked tough gun control legislation and then could not muster the votes for the pathetically weak measure that was left, the Speaker was nowhere to be found. It was bad enough to have to explain why his promise of "common sense" gun control legislation flamed out as the House surrendered to the gun lobby. Had he appeared in public, he also would have had to explain why he surrendered control of the House to Tom DeLay. George W. Bush and ...

New Page 3   BOOK MARK THIS PAGE FOR UPDATES! Newest update June, 17th 1999 click here The answer to cancer has always been known.    What we are talking about is something which was banned by the FDA years ago...but now because of the internet, the information is free and easily accessible.   The apricot seed was claimed as the answer for all cancers over 30 years ago.  Of course when a person's body is completely eaten up by cancer, the apricot seed and it's extract (laetrile and vitamin b17) would only prolong life and reduce pain.  (In many ...

BETWEEN TWO DEMONS IN DRASS http://www.telegraphindia.com/ Saturday, June 19, 1999 Drass, June 18 - Yesterday´s report from the front came to you courtesy Associated Press (AP) photographer Saurabh Das. We had been watching the twilight assault on intruder positions around Peak 5140 from a little clearing in the Drass army camp — he through his fascinating arsenal of lenses, I through wondrous wide eyes. Perilous though they are, Drass offers the best spectator seats on the high voltage battle for supremacy over snowy mountains that run along the troubled India-Pakistan frontier. Looking left to right from the concave, shelled-out ...

For fair use discussion and educational purposes only. COLOGNE, Germany - Russia blocked world leaders Saturday from adopting a Kosovo rebuilding program that excludes Slobodan Milosevic's regime. The leaders held out the possibility of fixing Belgrade's bombed power plants and roads for humanitarian reasons. "One cannot make the Serbian people suffer for their president," German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said. "One cannot leave them without power in winter or without heat." Though Russia's objections prevented a tough stand against the Yugoslav president, the leaders prepared to offer Russian President Boris Yeltsin a badly needed economic boost. Yeltsin, angry over NATO's 78-day ...

UN OBSERVER CONFIRMS INFILTRATION INTO INDIAN SIDE India Today June 19, 1999 http://www.india-today.com/ntoday/news.html Washington: United Nations (UN) observer in Srinagar General Josef Bali has confirmed that heavily-armed Afghan warriors have crossed over the Line of Control (LoC) into India via Pakistan, media reports said here on Saturday. “There is a lot of indication that former Afghan fighters from the war against Russia are now fighting here. Weapons provided for Afghanistan with large help from the Americans and the CIA are now in the hands of the militants,” Bali was quoted by the New York Times as saying. Bali also ...

Heads Up A Weekly View from the Foothills of Appalachia June 20, 1999 #140 by: Doug Fiedor fiedor19@eos.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous Editions at: http://www.uhuh.com/headsup.htm and http://mmc.cns.net/headsup.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- IN SUPPORT OF OUR CONSTITUTION Below is a slightly edited text of the concurring opinion written by Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, in "United States vs. Lopez" (93-1260) (1995). http://laws.findlaw.com/US/000/u10287.html This is a very important text, as it explains the misuse and abuse of the Commerce Clause (States' Rights) since FDR corrupted the federal government. The opinion sets the tone of the federal court system for a number ...

Kargil Special: FIERCE BATTLE ON, 112 INDIAN JAWANS LOST THEIR LIFE SO FAR The Indian Express http://www.expressindia.com/ Sunday, June 20, 1999 SHRINAGAR: Indian troops 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 destroyed four enemy 'Sangars' (field fortifications) north of Tololing during the past 24 hours. Official sources here said ten Pakistani soldiers were killed or wounded. An army spokesman in New Delhi however, said eight infiltrators were killed in the Tololing operation. The body of a Pakistani regular, Mohammed Noor, of ...

IS BUSH A NEW WORLDER   IS BUSH A NEW WORLDER? Before we go anointing George W. Bush as our President for the next millennium, perhaps we should take a peek under the ceremonial robe. He has been quoted in the main stream media as having great concerns about global warming (as in the Kyota treaty) and seeing it as a problem we have to deal with. Wait a minute! Isn't this one of the problems we have with Al Gore? Isn't Gore the one who's trying to back door the Kyota treaty by slamming us with Frau Browner ...

The things the 'lamestream' will tell us about later. Bush Jr.'s Skeleton Closet

Published in The Orlando Sentinel on June 20, 1999. Posted for discussion and education only; not for commercial use. If you are the proud parents of a new baby, congratulations. The bad news is, however, that your child can grow up and then be forced to serve in Kosovo. Our foreign-policy wizards have buried U.S. forces in the Balkans for probably 25 or even 50 years. There may be some benefit for the American people in Clinton's war, but I can't find it. Of course what used to be called the merchants of death, now euphemistically referred to as ...

About the 'family'(?) The Family That Preys Together

Secession, again? Wasn't this settled in the Civil War? 11.20 a.m. ET (1520 GMT) June 19, 1999 By Allen G. Breed, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Six score and 18 years ago, their forefathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in secession and dedicated to the proposition that states are sovereign and not beholden to a central government. Now, the philosophical heirs to the Confederate States of America are making another go at it. Organizers of the Southern Party have registered with the Federal Election Commission and with the secretaries of state in Florida, Georgia, ...

THREE weeks into the conflict, Kargil highlights three sour ironies. First those who rationalised Pokhran II by citing the Chinese ``threat'' -- i.e. the vast majority -- are now praying for normalised relations with China, hyping up the significance of Mr Jaswant Singh's visit. Second, many who misrepresented the largely symbolic, importance of the Lahore summit as a substantive breakthrough and radical transformation of India-Pakistan relations are now talking about immutable mutual rivalry and impossibility of conciliation. Third, from total opposition to external involvement in India-Pakistan affairs, New Delhi has swerved towards soliciting active support for its stand on Kargil ...

WASHINGTON -- Tony Blair, Bill Clinton's new best buddy, was shocked. The June European Parliamentary elections seem to have rejected the vaunted "Third Way" globalists in the Blair government. The conservative Tories overwhelmed Blair's hand-picked Labor Party liberals by a margin of 36 percent to 28 percent. This victory is all the more significant when you consider that the Labor Party has dominated the political landscape of Great Britain since it came to power in April 1997. In fact, as Brits went to the polls this month, Tony Blair's approval ratings had never been higher, thanks to his "leadership" in ...