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How fake guns and painting the roads fooled Nato By Robert Fisk in Belgrade NATO officers began to realise the discrepancy between their own claims and reality within hours of the start of the Yugoslav military withdrawal. In just the first stage of the Serbian retreat, they logged 250 tanks moving out of Kosovo - all undamaged - and at least 40,000 men. This was supposed to be the troop strength of the entire Third Army; thousands more soldiers left in the next three days. All of which casts serious doubt on Nato's wartime propaganda. On 17 April, for example, ...

ROANOKE, Va. (AP)-- The Rev. Jerry Falwell's newspaper has turned its attention from warning about Tinky Winky to the "demonic legend" behind the female music tour called Lilith Fair.Lilith Fair was created in 1997 by singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. More than 800,000 people attended the summer concert series last year. The third and final tour begins July 8 and features artists such as Sheryl Crow, The Dixie Chicks and Queen Latifah."Many young people no doubt attend the Lilith Fair concerts not knowing the demonic legend of the mystical woman whose name the series manifests," an editor of National Liberty Journal wrote ...

For fair use purposes of information and discussion only: THE CITY OF CHICAGO had a problem familiar to many other cities: gangs. Sporting their colors, tattoos and other identifiers, they liked to hang out in poor neighborhoods looking for trouble. Responding to the law-abiding citizens of those neighborhoods, who reported feeling intimidated and unsafe, the Chicago City Council passed an anti-loitering ordinance. The ordinance made it a crime punishable by a fine of up to $500 and imprisonment for up to six months to "loiter," defined as "remaining in any one place with no apparent purpose." The council provided ...

China sends U.S.-based dissident to hard labour HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - China has sent a U.S.-based dissident to three years in hard labour for illegally entering the country, a Hong Kong-based human rights group said on Monday. Zhou Yongjun, one of the leaders of the ill-fated 1989 pro-democracy movement centred on Tiananmen Square, slipped into mainland China from Hong Kong on December 21 after being refused legal entry, the human rights group said. The Information Centre of Human Rights & Democratic Movement in China said it obtained the information from the dissident's wife in the United States. Zhou, ...

Clinton supported racial profiling in ArkansasBy Jerry SeperTHE WASHINGTON TIMESresident Clinton last week criticized racial profiling by police as a "morally indefensible, deeply corrosive practice," but he strongly defended such profiling when he was governor of Arkansas.     He approved the profiling of Hispanics by Arkansas State Police as part of a drug interdiction program in 1988.     The Arkansas plan gave state troopers the authority to stop and search vehicles based on a drug-courier profile of Hispanics, particularly those driving cars with Texas license plates. A federal judge later ruled the program unconstitutional.     A lawsuit and a federal consent decree ended the -- Continued ...

DEMS SEE GUN CONTROL AS POTENT POLL WEAPON By DEBORAH ORIN Democrats yesterday predicted that they'll score big and knock off some Republicans if they can turn the 2000 elections into a shootout over gun control. They spoke after the House, led by Democrats, killed the latest gun-control bill because it would weaken existing laws on background checks at gun shows - although it also had some tough new measures like safety locks. "When you look at polling data and when you see the resonance this issue has all over the country ... I think this is going to be ...

NEW NUKE-LAB AGENCY URGED By DEBORAH ORIN America needs a new agency to run the spy-haunted U.S. nuclear labs because their officials have an "astounding" attitude that led to outright defiance of President Clinton's order for lie-detector tests, a top watchdog says. The labs still haven't implemented polygraphs or toughened restrictions on foreign visitors, even though Clinton ordered those moves 16 months ago, ex-Sen. Warren Rudman (R-N.H.) told NBC's "Meet the Press." "When your commanding general tells you to walk to the right, you walk to the right," added Rudman, who examined the nuclear labs at Clinton's request, and last ...

'DIRTY TRICKS' LETTER ACCUSES RUDY OF GOP TAKEOVER BID By FREDRIC U. DICKER A POLITICAL consultant working for U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio is being accused of launching a "dirty tricks" campaign against Mayor Giuliani. Dozens of local Republican officials, including many of the state's 62 GOP county chairmen, recently received an anonymous multipage letter - postmarked in Albany - accusing Giuliani of plotting "to take over the New York GOP" by running for the U.S. Senate next year. The letter focuses on Giuliani's former chief-of-staff Bruce Teitelbaum, who heads the mayor's Senate campaign committee, calling him the "political agent" spearheading ...

SOME RETURN HOME - TO FIND IT GONE By NILES LATHEM WHEN Shahih Veseli came down from the mountains after spending the last three months hiding from Serbian stormtroopers, he hoped that life would start to get a little easier. But what he found when he arrived home in this northern Kosovo village just miles from the Serbian border sent tears streaming down his rugged face. This was the day when the last of the Serbian troops who had terrorized Veseli and the rest of the ethnic Albanian population pulled up stakes and left for Serbia. But on Veseli's farm ...

Some say all is lost, hold on because everything goes down hill from here, but I have faith in Americans. Don't every tell an American it can't be done...He will find a way to prove you wrong. That was America a few years ago. We seem weaker these days than in earlier times. Aren't we more inclined to want comfort, ease, and security over a fight to keep our liberty? Will Americans again hear all kinds of empty promises of change? Will another presidential election cycle come and go with no real changes resulting from the election of a new ...

SERBS FINALLY OUT OF KOSOVO By BILL SANDERSON Yugoslav forces finished their withdrawal from Kosovo 11 hours ahead of schedule yesterday, and were followed in by NATO peacekeepers who found so many sites of atrocities and massacres, there weren't enough troops to guard them all. NATO declared an official end to the bombing campaign and President Clinton met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Germany in an effort to patch up the war's damage to relations between the United States and Russia. As peacekeepers took up their posts in Kosovo and worked to disarm the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army, ...

LIBRARY INTERNET HIT AS PORNO HEAVEN FOR KIDS By NEIL GRAVES City libraries have become porno theaters for kids who routinely call up X-rated Web sites on computers there, a state assemblyman charged yesterday. Jeffrey Klein, a Bronx Democrat, said local branches should supervise kids who surf the Web from the library, warn parents about porn in cyberspace and consider installing software to prevent minors from visiting X-rated sites. "A child cannot go into a pornographic movie house, cannot go into a newsstand and buy a pornographic magazine," Klein said. "[But] that same child can walk into any public library ...

WHITE HOUSE STILL HOME FOR CANDIDATE HILL: BILL By DEBORAH ORIN President Clinton yesterday said it isn't so - wife Hillary won't move out of the White House and move to New York to run for U.S. Senate. Clinton said the First Lady won't have to do that because she'll run her Senate campaign like an "incumbent member of Congress" - even though she has never been elected to office or lived in New York. "It's not true that she's going to move out of the White House," Clinton told CNN. "If she runs for the Senate, she'll obviously have ...

Clinton says world must act faster to stop atrocities . 6/21/99 COLOGNE, Germany (AP) - President Clinton and other world leaders hailed the Serb military pullout from Kosovo and pledged to act more quickly to prevent fresh outbreaks of ethnic slaughter of the kind now being uncovered by NATO troops in the province. ``We will stand up for the innocents in the face of evil,'' Clinton said in a speech Sunday after the close of the three-day summit of the Group of Eight - the seven leading world economic powers and Russia. ``(We) begin a new century and a new ...

Navy Carrier Returning to Pacific By ROBERT BURNS .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Now that NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia is over, the Pentagon intends to return an aircraft carrier to the western Pacific in a move made more urgent by renewed tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The Navy has been without an aircraft carrier in the Pacific since early April, when the USS Kitty Hawk carrier battle group went to the Persian Gulf to cover for the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The Theodore Roosevelt diverted to the Adriatic Sea to bolster allied aircraft striking at Yugoslavia. With NATO ...

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 ...