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Internet's E-conomy Gets Real By Mark Leibovich, Tim Smart and Ianthe Jeanne Dugan Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, June 20, 1999; Page A1 The fanfare, inflated stock prices and overnight paper fortunes that surround the Internet's manic incursion into American life have obscured an important shift: The industry is graduating from a speculative casino into a measurable force that is changing nearly every corner of modern capitalism. The Internet is rapidly slashing costs between suppliers and companies, and between companies and customers. As it creates entirely new businesses and realigns old ones, it is scrambling notions of corporate value, giving ...

Malaysia to send security personnel to Kosovo KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 (Reuters) - Malaysia will send 60 security personnel to Kosovo to participate in peacekeeping operations, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said. ``We'll send 50 policemen and 10 military liaison officers,'' the official Bernama news agency quoted Syed Hamid as saying on Saturday. The Malaysian personnel will participate in peacekeeping duties under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, he said. Malaysia has also donated medical supplies to Kosovo through non-governmental organisations and supported efforts to raise humanitarian aid for Kosovo refugees, the foreign minister said. NATO troops entered Kosovo on June ...

> URGENT ACTION ITEM! >=============================================== >June 19, 1999 >=============================================== >U.S. House will vote Wednesday on bill >to reform asset-forfeiture laws >*** Immediate action required! Telephone your House >representative immediately. >Friends: >The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on >Wednesday, June 23, on a bill that would dramatically reform >civil asset-forfeiture laws, which allow the government to >confiscate the property of innocent Americans without even >charging them with a crime. We are asking everyone who receives >this message to *immediately* contact your House representative >and ask him or her to vote YES on HR 1658, The Civil Asset ...

> > URGENT ACTION ITEM! >=============================================== >June 19, 1999 >=============================================== >U.S. House will vote Wednesday on bill >to reform asset-forfeiture laws >*** Immediate action required! Telephone your House >representative immediately. >Friends: >The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on >Wednesday, June 23, on a bill that would dramatically reform >civil asset-forfeiture laws, which allow the government to >confiscate the property of innocent Americans without even >charging them with a crime. We are asking everyone who receives >this message to *immediately* contact your House representative >and ask him or her to vote YES on HR 1658, The Civil Asset ...

Russia's Yeltsin arrives in Cologne for G8 summit COLOGNE, June 20 (Reuters) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin arrived in Cologne on Sunday to attend the last day of the summit meeting of the Group of Eight leading nations. Yeltsin's airplane landed in Cologne airport at around 0540 GMT and Yeltsin was seen leaving it accompanied by his wife Naina. During his one-day stay in Cologne Yeltsin is also expected to meet U.S. President Bill Clinton and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Russia's RIA news agency quoted Yeltsin's foreign policy adviser Sergei Prikhodko as saying the Kremlin leader would offer a number ...

Jacksonville C-130s could be in Pristina next week, officer says SANDY DAVIS ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- If, as planned, NATO troops regain control of the airport in Pristina, the capital city of Kosovo, C-130s from Little Rock Air Force Base could be flying into that Yugoslavian province as soon as next week, said Lt. Col. Wayne Schatz, commander of the 50th Airlift Squadron.     "We're kind of waiting to see what happens," Schatz said early Friday during a telephone interview from Germany. "As soon as our military forces and NATO are in control there and the ...

Citing death threats, Republicans shut down Haiti democracy PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Citing death threats from militant supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the U.S. Republican Party has shut down its democracy-building program in Haiti, its president said Saturday. ``In other countries, we've been worried about our staff getting caught in the cross fire. In Haiti, we're afraid they'll get caught in the cross hairs,'' Lorne Craner of the International Republican Institute told The Associated Press. ``The gunmen who threatened our staff said they were in Mr. Aristide's camp,'' said Craner. ``They said it's time for us to stop our ...

A permanent political class exists in this country, and it's made up of people from law firms small and large. The squawk surrounding Hillary Clinton's potential candidacy for the New York Senate vacancy highlights some of the drawbacks of this set-up. Every four years or so, we must have yet another argument about which of these people has earned the right to a turn at bat. (How, otherwise, would Bill Bradley have come under consideration for the presidency of anything?) There are lots of potential players to choose from, because too many of these folks just don't have enough to ...

DALLAS STARS WIN STANLEY CUP!!!!

Taxpayers could give rebates back for ballpark Gov. Jesse Ventura on Friday stated his new official policy on public spending for a sports stadium: The state will establish a special account to accept gifts from Minnesotans who want to donate all or part of their tax rebates to pay for a ballpark. It's a chance, Ventura said, for stadium supporters to ``put their money where their mouth is'' and help pay for a new ballpark or football stadium with their own cash, rather than with somebody else's taxes. Ventura said he has better things to do with his own money ...

Blair confident Labour will win next election COLOGNE, Germany, June 20 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Sunday he was confident his ruling Labour party's economic record would win Britain's next election and hinted he would be focusing more on domestic policies than foreign affairs after a mid-term electoral setback. Blair told Sky News television he had not expected any electoral dividend from the success of the military campaign against Yugoslavia and was not surprised that he did not get one in the June 10 European Parliament election. Voters punished Blair's party by staying at home, especially in ...

No life for Iraqi women under embargo By Hassan Hafidh BAGHDAD, June 20 (Reuters) - The newspaper advertisement said a beautiful and well-educated Iraqi woman was seeking a husband, preferably someone young and rich. The ad, in the weekly Nabdh al-Shabab (pulse of youth), was one of many received by the paper each week. Men also advertise for wives and they too want a spouse with a good income. Such advertisements would probably make not make news in other parts of the world. But in a Moslem country like Iraq they have become the talk of the town. ``Young girl ...

Patrick J. Buchanan, increasingly frustrated in his third presidential bid, has been advised to abandon the Republican Party and instead try to win the nomination of Ross Perot's Reform Party. The Reform nomination would provide the populist and protectionist Buchanan with $12.6 million in federal money for the general election against what are likely to be decidedly nonpopulist free traders as GOP and Democratic nominees. "This is really an enormous idea," said Don Devine, an adviser to Malcolm S. "Steve" Forbes. Officials of the Buchanan campaign clammed up Friday when asked about it. Bob Adams, Buchanan's spokesman, said he was ...

Unarmed U.N. police ready for bloodied E.Timor By Wendy Pugh DARWIN, Australia, June 20 (Reuters) - Police from Spain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Britain, due to arrive in East Timor within days as part of a U.N. force, have no fears about entering the bloodied territory unarmed. British chief police inspector Michael Holdsworth, who recently served in Bosnia, said his members preferred not to carry arms ahead of the August 8 autonomy ballot. ``I feel it is not right to take firearms into East Timor. We didn't carry weapons in Bosnia and we don't need them in East Timor,'' ...

G-8 leaders to warn N. Korea against missiles Kyodo News Service COLOGNE, Germany, June 20 (Kyodo) - By: Kohei Murayama The Group of Eight (G-8) leaders begin the final session of their three-day summit Sunday, with a call to North Korea to stop nuclear and missile development and commitments to Kosovo on the agenda, G-8 officials said. The leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States will issue a joint communique, along with special statements on regional issues, at around noon, to wrap up the annual summit. The communique will include issues related to North ...

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Politics 2000 The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Vice President Al Gore made a pitch to Hispanic voters Saturday by stressing education as a top way to extend prosperity enjoyed by ``Latino business owners'' to unskilled workers and immigrants. Speaking in Spanish on occasion, Gore promised that if he is elected president to use the strong economic growth and educational gains of the past six years to increase job opportunities for Hispanics. ``Latino business ownership is at the highest levels, and Latino poverty rates are at the lowest levels,'' the leading Democratic candidate said during the annual conference of the ...

Chirac blasts Americans on beef, urges world food-safety body . 6/19/99 COLOGNE, Germany (AP) - French President Jacques Chirac on Saturday accused the United States and Canada of ignoring public health concerns by attempting to overturn a European Union ban on beef from cattle treated with growth hormones. Speaking to a summit of the world's richest nations and Russia, Chirac said the North Americans were acting ``with a purely commercial mindset and were not taking into account public health.'' Chirac told U.S. President Bill Clinton and the other leaders of the so-called G-8 - Japan, France, Britain, Italy, Canada, Germany, ...

Now each year another state the size of Illinois turns Democratic. How does "President Gore" sound to you in 2000? And for the next 8 years after? And many more Democrat presidents and congresses to follow Gore. Wake up Americans! It's already happened in California. Why does another state turn Democrat each year now? Because now 8 1/2 million new legal and illegal aliens mostly from Mexico come to the U.S. each year. And they all (99.2%) become legal voters. And over 90% vote for Democrats. This is perhaps President Clinton's best kept secret yet. The Invasion of Illegal People ...

Now that the Littleton, Colorado, disaster has calmed down, we can seriously look at the role the game DOOM played in the death and injuries caused by the two boys who went crazy and shot up their school. Many have tried to downplay the game's role, but they're dead wrong. My conclusions do not bode well for the future. One observer on TV called DOOM and other games "murder simulators," pointing out that the military even practices on DOOM. In fact, as I listened to various pundits discuss the role of violent games, few brought up the incredible effectiveness of ...