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KLA Is Peacekeepers Big Challenge By JEFFREY ULBRICH .c The Associated Press PARTES, Yugoslavia (AP) - Col. Kenneth Glueck led his American Marines into a cauldron of hatreds where ethnic Albanians had suffered horribly at the hands of the Serbs. His challenge now is preventing the victims from exacting brutal revenge. After thousands of ethnic Albanians were killed and hundreds of thousands more were driven from their homes by a Serb rampage, it is now Serb civilians who live in fear. The rebel Kosovo Liberation Army is showing every sign of wanting revenge, even though its leader has signed a ...

Bar Codes for the Body Make It to the Market Biometrics May Alter Consumer Landscape By Guy Gugliotta Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 21, 1999; Page A01 HOUSTON—Jordan Pearce stood before the Bank United cash machine, stared at a blinking light for perhaps three seconds, waiting quietly while a hidden camera scanned his eyeball. The machine's television screen spasmed once and opened for business. Moments later Pearce pocketed $40 and departed, just like millions of other Americans who stop at their local ATM to get money every day. Except that Pearce, 18, a rising freshman at nearby Rice University, ...

June 21, 1999 Atheists Under Siege By MICAH WHITE We hear it everywhere, from churches to Congress: we need to allow religion back in the schools if we want to avoid another tragedy like the one at Columbine High School. Groups like the Christian Coalition say there has been a moral decline ever since the Supreme Court banned school prayer. They were disturbed by the story of Cassie Bernall, the Columbine student who was killed after saying she believed in God. And they make demons out of all atheist students, as if they had anything in common with Eric ...

Closing Remarks to Members I have been admonished not to be here, not to speak to you here. It's not the first time. In 1963 I marched on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King, long before Hollywood found civil rights fashionable. My associates advised me not to go. They said it would be unpopular and maybe dangerous. Thirty-six years later my associates advised me not to come to Denver. They said it would be unpopular and maybe dangerous. But I am here. Let me tell you why. I see our country teetering on the edge of an abyss. At its ...

Patrons Turn Out for Gun Show By ROBERT SANCHEZ .c The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Under a din of banjos and the hum of fluorescent lights, the chatter of bartering from a larger-than-expected crowd echoed through the region's biggest gun show. While Congress debates whether to impose more restrictions on who can buy a gun - and when - rednecks, rebels and average Joes turned out for the weekend show. ``They want to make a stand,'' said Mike Jones, 36, who was carrying his three-month old daughter, Debbie. ``They think their rights are going to be taken ...

Gore Makes It a Family Affair NEWSWEEK Gun control is now being defined as a "family" issue—and will soon be aimed by the Democrats directly at Texas Gov. George W. Bush. That was one of the clues to Campaign 2000 that emerged last week as Vice President Al Gore formally kicked off his presidential bid. Polling for the Democrats has found more than 80 percent siding with Clinton and Gore over Bush on issues like mandatory gun locks, background checks at gun shows and opposition to concealed weapons. It was no coincidence that Gore criticized efforts to shield the gun ...

Atheists Under Siege By MICAH WHITE We hear it everywhere, from churches to Congress: we need to allow religion back in the schools if we want to avoid another tragedy like the one at Columbine High School. Groups like the Christian Coalition say there has been a moral decline ever since the Supreme Court banned school prayer. They were disturbed by the story of Cassie Bernall, the Columbine student who was killed after saying she believed in God. And they make demons out of all atheist students, as if they had anything in common with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. ...

Dear Members of the House of Representatives, Last week, both Republicans, and Democrats worked together to defeat Clinton's evil attempt to further impede the rights of American citizens to keep and bear arms. Over the next few weeks, some Members of the House may be tempted to go back on this good work and further harm our rights. Some are saying that Democrats will do everything they can to attach riders to almost every new bill in an attempt to please their King. It was only a few years back when Republicans did this on other issues, but Democrats stood ...

The Horrors of Kosovo New York Times Editorial During the NATO bombing of Kosovo, when Serbia controlled reporters' access to the region, journalists could document atrocities only by interviewing the ethnic Albanians who had fled to refugee camps. News reports of their accounts usually carried the words "could not be independently confirmed." They can be now. Journalists have fanned out through Kosovo, and the confirmation is horrifying. Ethnic Albanians offer reporters crumpled lists of the dead and lead them to burned mosques, the remains of bodies and fresh graves dug by friends and family to bury the victims. There were ...

Everything in Ruins and Little to Eat By JOHN KIFNER POSLIC, Yugoslavia -- The villagers here began arriving back home Saturday night, part of a flood of refugees racing back over the border from nearly three months in camps and makeshift housing. They found their houses in ruins -- both from Serbian pillaging and NATO bombing -- no electricity or drinking water and, worst of all, hardly any food across a wide stretch of southern Kosovo. "Everybody wants to come back," said Nijazi Kryeziv, who made the short journey from Kukes, Albania, where six of the nine refugees camps have ...

Milosevic Urges Serbs to Go Back to Kosovo By STEVEN ERLANGER BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Hundreds of Serbs who had fled Kosovo, fearing vengeance from the Kosovo Liberation Army rebels, responded Sunday to appeals from the Yugoslav government to return to the province and to trust the security provided by NATO-led forces. President Slobodan Milosevic, moving to shore up his position after failing to keep NATO out of Kosovo, has urged the province's Serbs to defend the right to their land by staying put, or returning if they have already fled. By praising the very NATO forces -- now under a ...

THE BUTCHER BILL The Monetary And Moral Cost Of Kosovo By Edward Zehr The ambassadors of the nations currently participating in the U.N. Security Council droned on, spinning the facts in accordance with the agenda of NATO. Only the occasional discordant note marred the effect -- the delegate from Brazil, for example, deplored the failure of the NATO countries to obtain the authority of the international organization for the use of military action against Yugoslavia. The Chinese delegation discreetly echoed this sentiment, expressing their fond hope that member nations would first consult the U.N. the next time they determine ...

U.S. and Russia Strive to Repair Relations Frayed by Kosovo By JANE PERLEZ COLOGNE, Germany -- The reasonable face of Russia, President Boris N. Yeltsin, walked stiffly, but his presence here Sunday was enough to reassure President Clinton and other Western leaders that dialogue with Moscow was possible in the aftermath of the Kosovo war. After weeks of tensions since the start of the war, culminating in an unnerving standoff between Russian and NATO troops at the main airport in Kosovo, the Russian and American leaders met Sunday and decided to let bygones be bygones, according to Clinton's aides. "I ...

Serb Troops Complete Their Pullout From Kosovo By STEVEN LEE MYERS PODUJEVO, Yugoslavia -- The last of some 40,000 Serbian forces left Kosovo Sunday a few hours ahead of NATO's deadline for withdrawal, in effect ending Yugoslavia's control over a province at the center of Serbia's cultural and historical lore. With the withdrawal completed, the NATO Secretary General, Javier Solana, announced that he had lifted the alliance's threat to resume bombing, formally ending a 78-day air war that culminated with the occupation of Kosovo by NATO-led peacekeepers in the last eight days. While the withdrawal of Serbian forces went relatively ...

Schools Seek Ways To Lure Teachers .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's schools, relying more and more on uncertified instructors, are having a tough time recruiting teachers these days because of competition from higher-paying industries more attractive to college graduates. A survey released today by the American Federation of Teachers found that beginning teachers made $25,735 on average in 1997-98, compared with $42,862 for new engineering graduates and $40,920 for new computer scientists. The national average salary for all teachers in the 1997-98 school year was $39,347, according to the union. In other professional fields, lawyers earned ...

QUOTE: RUSH: "Ladies and Gentlemen, we have just witnessed a delectable and juicy moment in the House of Representatives. We have seen what in effect is the establishment of the true genuine lame duck status of President Clinton. We have seen the President finally now, unable to marshall his forces and push through the House of Representatives in his traditional way, intimidation, fear and crisis mongering, his gun control bill. It was close but it failed. And it failed, ladies and gentlemen, because 20 percent of the House of Representatives Democrats voted with the Republicans. And another way of looking ...

"Let us make Terror the order of the day." French Revolutionary edict. When the infamous 500 or so, in effect self elected, of the French Revolutionary Assembly ran out of French soldiers to run amuck and burn France back to dark obscurity and to round up and arbitrarily kill innocent French citizens, in order to reduce the population AND KILL CIVILIZATION for effective communism, what did the officiating criminals do? They released scores of hardened prisoners, gave them spiked wine, a gun from the armory and let engage in untold barbarity and mass murder. Amazingly, such was the desperation ...

AFTER a spate of kidnapping and shootings in and around the eastern Kosovo city of Gnijlane, Serb residents are accusing the United States Marines of reacting too slowly to what they say is a takeover of the city by Albanian rebels. Gnijlane, with a large Serb population, many of whom vow not to flee the city, remained relatively untouched by war until Nato started its air campaign. After the air strikes began, Serb paramilitaries or Yugoslav soldiers began killing civilians, including at least two old Albanian men on the edge of town. Now the tables have been turned and ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. DO THE RIGHT THING FOR HEP-C VICTIMS A GENEROUS AND CARING NATION IGNORES SUFFERING HERE AT HOME RIGHT HERE DAVE RUTHERFORD The Calgary Sun; EDITORIAL/OPINION, Pg. 15 June 18, 1999, Friday, Final EDITION Is it just me, or is it hypocritical to help others around the world, but refuse to help at home? News agencies in places like Iran are running stories about tainted blood and the Internet is full of talk about deadly blood Canada is doing its part militarily, financially and ...

Tom DeLay Holds No Gavel, But a Firm Grip on the Reins By MELINDA HENNEBERGER WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tom DeLay swears it's only the force of his personality that has everyone in Washington persuaded -- mistakenly, of course -- that he's the guy running the House of Representatives while Speaker Dennis Hastert sends out for sandwiches. "I'm just -- I'm aggressive, and I've been aggressive all my life," says DeLay, the majority whip, not unhappily. And the speaker, he says, is just understated. Hastert doesn't think it's his job to talk to the press, DeLay notes, and will never suit ...