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BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) - Fashion executive John Badum lived in New York's East Village, filling his fast-paced world with stylish friends and exuberant, over-the-top gestures. He loved costume parties, a good loud laugh, anything flamboyant. If Badum's life was musical theater, his death was pure opera: He was killed with a meat cleaver by his former boyfriend, who then threw himself to his death in front of a minivan. Police said it was a green card dispute that led Badum, 46, from New York's fashion world to his sister's apartment in Batavia, where the May 30 attack occurred. Badum's ...

There is a scattering of what used to be called hard news in Bob Woodward's latest hot Washington book, Shadow, though it is not clear whether anybody-even the author-much notices or cares. For example: Confusion has always surrounded the meaning of President Clinton's violent rage on December 6, 1997, after Secret Service officers at the White House's northwest gate let slip to Monica Lewinsky that her pined-for ex-boyfriend-in-chief was at that very moment meeting privately with another woman, Eleanor Mondale. Critics of the president have theorized that he was at that point already concerned about Lewinsky's potential testimony in the ...

Primary Originally published on Sunday, May 30, 1999. WHEN MISSOURIANS VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, SOMEBODY MIGHT BE WATCHING FOR PARTY SWAPPERS DU JOUR By Jo Mannies If you're a Missouri voter eagerly awaiting your chance to play a role in selecting next year's presidential nominees, be prepared. Someone could well be looking over your shoulder next March 7 to take note of which party ballot you pick. "If there are spies at the polls, they'll be Democratic spies," chortled John Hancock, executive director of the state Republican Party. "We have no plans to station spies at the polls." Not officially, ...

American Investigator: A Television Newsmagazine Show Reporter: Marc Morano Producer: Kent Washburn Phone: 202-543-4787 Fax: 202-543-5978 E-mail: Ai@fcref.org Original Air Date: June 25, 1999 VO: Almost no living creatures on the face of the earth are more universally reviled than cockroaches. For most people, cockroaches are creepy, crawly, disgusting vermin. Exterminators make their living killing them. When director Paul Verhoeven needed an enemy that would receive absolutely no audience sympathy in his movie "Starship Troopers," he created giant cockroach-like bugs. SS Troopers clip It was then quite surprising when the film "Joe’s Apartment" humanized roaches, even having them sing and ...

Jack CashillPray For Steve Rose Last week KC publisher Steve Rose ventured manfully on to our radio show to defend a self-testing mechanism he had designed to ferret out "Right Wing Extremists." 22 Questions in all, listed below. Far Right Extremists believe: 1. Vince Foster was murdered, and Bill Clinton ran a drug-running enterprise in Mena, Ark. 2. Public schools are public enemy number one. 3. The solution to tragedies like Littleton, Colorado, is for teachers to carry concealed weapons. 4. The solution to teen-age delinquency is prayer in school. 5. America was founded as a Christian nation. All ...

Jack CashillPray For Steve Rose Last week KC publisher Steve Rose ventured manfully on to our radio show to defend a self-testing mechanism he had designed to ferret out "Right Wing Extremists." 22 Questions in all, listed below. Far Right Extremists believe: 1. Vince Foster was murdered, and Bill Clinton ran a drug-running enterprise in Mena, Ark. 2. Public schools are public enemy number one. 3. The solution to tragedies like Littleton, Colorado, is for teachers to carry concealed weapons. 4. The solution to teen-age delinquency is prayer in school. 5. America was founded as a Christian nation. All ...

Thirteen Principles for a full Constitutional Restoration 1. We believe that no people can maintain freedom unless their political institutions are founded upon faith in God and belief in the existence of moral law. 2. We believe that God had endowed men with certain unalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property and anything more that this is usurpation and oppression. 3. We believe that the Constitution of the United ...

American Investigator: A Television Newsmagazine Show Reporter: Marc Morano Producer: Kent Washburn Phone: 202-543-4787 Fax: 202-543-5978 E-mail: Ai@fcref.org Original Air Date: June 25, 1999 VO: Almost no living creatures on the face of the earth are more universally reviled than cockroaches. For most people, cockroaches are creepy, crawly, disgusting vermin. Exterminators make their living killing them. When director Paul Verhoeven needed an enemy that would receive absolutely no audience sympathy in his movie "Starship Troopers," he created giant cockroach-like bugs. SS Troopers clip It was then quite surprising when the film "Joe’s Apartment" humanized roaches, even having them sing and ...

American Investigator: A Television Newsmagazine Show Reporter: Marc Morano Producer: Kent Washburn Phone: 202-543-4787 Fax: 202-543-5978 E-mail: Ai@fcref.org Original Air Date: June 25, 1999 VO: Almost no living creatures on the face of the earth are more universally reviled than cockroaches. For most people, cockroaches are creepy, crawly, disgusting vermin. Exterminators make their living killing them. When director Paul Verhoeven needed an enemy that would receive absolutely no audience sympathy in his movie "Starship Troopers," he created giant cockroach-like bugs. SS Troopers clip It was then quite surprising when the film "Joe’s Apartment" humanized roaches, even having them sing and ...

BushJr Originally published on Saturday, June 12, 1999. GOV. BUSH RAISES $500,000 HERE By Mark Schlinkmann Regional Political Correspondent The Associated Press Contributed Information For This Article. * Meanwhile, Hillary Rodham Clinton helps Richard Gephardt set a state record, netting $2.1 million for Democratic House campaigns. Texas Gov. George W. Bush stopped here for a few hours Friday to raise money and to make a dry run on his presidential campaign pitch before going public with it today in the key caucus state of Iowa. Bush, the early favorite to win next year's Republican nomination, appeared before more than 500 ...

Commission to begin sorting through tough Internet tax questions FOR STORY ABOVE http://www.cnn.com/US/9906/21/internet.taxes.ap/ COUNTIES LODGE CLASS ACTION SUIT http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/13/taxsuit.idg/index.html

French send paras in helicopters to face down KLA By Christian Curtenelle MITROVICA, June 21 (Reuters) - The head of French forces in Kosovo said on Monday he had so far had to send helicopter- borne troops into the field three times to face down guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army. ``I had to intervene three times by air to act against heavy KLA concentrations,'' Brigadier General Bruno Cuche told reporters. He said the situation had each time been defused without shooting, but that tension was ``very high.'' Aides said the most serious incident was on Sunday when Cuche helicoptered ...

GOP Primary GOP Primary to be Winner-Take-All [Mo.] One day after Texas Gov. George W. Bush held a fund raiser in St Louis, Republicans decided (my note --all of them? or just the monied ones attending?) to make next years primary winner-take-all. That means the Republican candidate who garners the most support March 7 gets all 37 Missouri delegates to the National convention, where the nominee is picked. Those delegates had been split among candidates based on percentage of support. (My comment again --- Makes ya' Proud, huh?)

June 18, 1999 Compassionate Conservatives Memo To: Dan Quayle From: Jude Wanniski Re: Good For You Now that Texas Governor George W. Bush has decided officially to proclaim himself a "compassionate conservative," I’m finding myself somewhat surprised that the idea is spreading. Other Republicans want to be compassionate too. As far as I can tell, you are the only candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000 who has barred the use of the term "compassionate conservative" in association with your campaign. Good for you. This kind of mush is exactly what one expects from the third and fourth generation ...

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 Forfeiture Reform Act of 1999, sponsored by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-IL. BACKGROUND: Congress began enacting asset forfeiture laws in 1970 to permit the government to seize the property of the ...

Good news for Bob Dole. Chinese rebuild sex organs with muscle grafts Chinese doctors are claiming a breakthrough in prosthetic surgery after successfully rebuilding male sex organs using muscle from elsewhere in their bodies. The two patients involved have gone on to marry and father children, and the doctors claim even the newly linked nerves are working well enough for the new organ to respond to sexual thoughts and desires. One of the men, a worker from eastern Shandong province, had his penis removed because of a malignant tumour. The other, a Pakistani citizen, lost his in a work ...

LONDON (Reuters) - New Age travelers invaded Stonehenge Monday, spoiling Summer Solstice celebrations before British riot police moved in to clear the ancient stone circle and arrested 22 people. Under cover of darkness, hundreds of travelers stormed through the fence surrounding the prehistoric monument and police in riot gear, backed by dogs and horses, responded by evicting some 1,000 people from the site. ``They literally trampled down the fence and ran into the stones, jumping over them, sitting on top, hurling all sorts of objects at police,'' said a spokeswoman for Wiltshire police in southwest England. ``They were throwing ...