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Man Sentenced for Biting Wife's Lip .c The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) - A man was sentenced to five years probation Monday for biting off his wife's lower lip during an argument over a party he wanted to attend. Cator Lewis-Charles, 36, of Boston, pleaded guilty in Superior Court to mayhem. He must complete an anger management course and a batterer's program. The argument on Jan. 2, 1998, at the couple's home escalated into pushing and shoving. Lewis-Charles grabbed his wife and bit her lower lip, tearing it from her face, said prosecutors, who didn't disclose the wife's name. Lewis-Charles ...

The Declaration of Independence is politically incorrect. That became an issue when the New Jersey Assembly debated a bill that would require public school students to recite the ''all men are created equal'' passage of the declaration every day, in addition to the Pledge of Allegiance. Some lawmakers objected, saying the declaration reflects outdated and inappropriate colonial values. If it must be recited, they argued, then ''all men'' should be changed to ''all people.'' The Assembly, disinclined to edit the famous words of Thomas Jefferson, approved the bill in its original form. Gov. Christie Todd Whitman, however, has indicated ...

ISSUE 1485 Saturday 19 June 1999 'Dreamboat Bush' proves to be ladies' man By Mark Steyn GORE, Bush; Bush, Gore; Bore, Gush. One believes in "compassionate conservatism", the other in "practical idealism"; or maybe one believes in "practical compassion", the other in "idealistic practicalities". Either way, the battle lines for the presidential campaign were drawn this week. "On this ground I will make my stand!" declared George W Bush, defending himself against those who'd attacked him for his "compassionate conservatism". I don't think anyone has attacked him for his compassionate conservatism: we'd just like to know what it means. So ...

GENEVA, June 21 (AFP) - A US expert warned on Monday it would take up to five years before the people of Kosovo could resume their daily lives free of the menace of landmines. "This is a problem that can be managed, but it is going to require not just a question of months," US ambassador Donald Steinberg told journalists. "It's going to be question of three to five years in our estimation before we have conditions in Kosovo where individuals can go back to their lives as before," said Steinberg, recently appointed the US special representative for global humanitarian ...

The U.S. Department of Education has designed a way to sidestep the growing number of federal court decisions holding that affirmative action -- as intensively pursued by the department -- is unconstitutional. News of this stratagem was first reported in the authoritative weekly the Chronicle of Higher Education: "Colleges would be in legal jeopardy if they use SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) or ACT (American College Testing) scores as the primary basis for admissions and financial aid decisions, according to draft guidelines that the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is circulating among college officials." The coercive bureaucratic device ...

I am signed up with their education program and I thought this would be a heads up to watch for all here: **Attention Teachers** Special programming on National Security Issues to air tomorrow, June 22 beginning at 7am ET on C-SPAN! Tuesday, June 22 Schedule follows: LIVE 7 - 8 am ET On C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) will discuss the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to be held later in the day. LIVE 8 - 9 am ET - On Washington Journal, Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ('73 -'77), will discuss major international and domestic issues ...

MONROE, Va. (AP)-- Angry at being cooped up in stuffy buses after their job training center had been evacuated for a bomb threat, students clashed with police equipped with riot gear.Students spat on officers and threw cigarette lighters and balled-up T-shirts at them during the confrontation Sunday at the Old Dominion Job Corps Center. No one was injured, police and school officials said.About 40 police officers squared off against the students, and prepared to use a high-pressure water hose in case the students charged, said Amherst County Sheriff L.T. Ayers."It was just a mess there for about an hour or ...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — "Don't do that!'' the head of an organization trying to remove a million mines from Bosnia exclaimed Monday when Hillary Rodham Clinton lifted a mine on display at a medical institute here and touched its fuse. "No, no, I won't (activate it),'' the first lady told Jernej Cimpersek with a smile, putting the mine safely away, part of her tour of the National Institute for Rehabilitation. It was only after that incident that Cimpersek, director of the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims' Assistance in Bosnia-Herzegovina, gave Mrs. Clinton a protective jacket like those ...

Talking heads have had a fine time recently taking potshots at Texas Gov. George W. Bush, noted Meredith Oakley of the Arkansas Demcorat-Gazette yesterday. What does the governor stand for, they ask? "They don't ask the same question about Democratic candidate Al Gore," she writes, "But I figure that's because they already know the answer: He stands for Bill Clinton -- as well as by and with him, even to the point of declaring just a few days back that misleading people has nothing to do with lying. "Yes, sir, that's just what we need; four to eight more ...

Monday June 21 4:06 PM ET US To Release Russian Kennedy Papers After Review LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (Reuters) - The United States plans to release Russian documents about the life and death of former President John F. Kennedy after a review of the papers, the White House said Monday. The documents, which Russia gave the United States Sunday, could be of particular interest because Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, lived in the former Soviet Union for several years before he returned to the United States and killed the former president in November 1963. Russian President Boris Yeltsin surprised President Clinton Sunday ...

PAK ATTEMPT AT CHANGING LOC IRRESPONSIBLE, SAYS GERMANY Bonn, June 21 (Agencies) - In one of the strongest indictments of Pakistan by any foreign government yet, Germany has termed as "irresponsible'' Pakistan's attempt to change the status quo on the Line of Control. Wolfgang Massing, head of the Asia desk at the Germany ministry of foreign affairs, says he has information that apart from Afghan militants, the Pakistani Army was involved in the intrusion in Kargil, violating the LoC. Massing was speaking recently at a debate in Berlin on `Regional and Global Security Implications of the Indian and Pakistani ...

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - The United Nations raised its light blue flag over Kosovo Sunday, and with it hopes for order and democracy in the bitterly divided region. But the red-and-black flag of Albania, which flies over their headquarters on the hilly outskirts of Pristina and elsewhere in Kosovo, represents a serious challenge to U.N. authority. The separatist Kosovo Liberation Army is occupying town halls the United Nations says it should administer and intervening in disputes the world body says it should mediate, raising concerns that plans for a multiethnic Kosovo will be hijacked. Sergio Vieira de Mello, the high-ranking, ...

The thread below discusses an article written by an AP "journalist". SUBMACHINE GUNS FOR SALE AT GUN SHOW? http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a376e32d044a3.htm The original tile and byline are: Patrons Turn Out for Gun Show By Robert Sanchez Associated Press Writer It uses the following inflamatory terms in association with "redneck":Banjo music (mentioned twice), rebels, the South, drunk, dirty jeans, cutoff undershirts, unshaven, cursing, obscene gesture, Nazi medals and Confederate flags.It is obvious that the intent was to reinforce the neagtive stereotype for the slur "redneck". If you are offended and wish to complain to the Associated Press, you need to contact Assistant To ...

With Slobodan Milosevic's rule shaken by Serbia's withdrawal from Kosovo, an even more extremist and anti-Western politician is bidding to take his place. After quitting Milosevic's government when NATO-led troops marched into the southern Serbian province, Vojislav Seselj is poised to mount the greatest political challenge to the Yugoslav President since he came to power 10 years ago. If Mr Seselj succeeds, it will put into place a nationalist leadership even more strident and anti-Western than the regime NATO just tried to bomb into submission. Mr Seselj, a 45-year-old lawyer and Serbia's Acting Deputy Prime Minister, launched his political career ...

Nato watches Kosovars strip village clean By Andrew Buncombe in Grece British and French troops stood and watched as looters pillaged and burned a Serb village yesterday, making a mockery of Nato's claim that it is providing security for both Serbs and Albanians. Serbs in the village of Grece, 10 miles north of the Kosovo capital Pristina, had apparently been warned on Saturday night by returning Albanians that they should leave immediately. Early yesterday morningdozens of tractors and trailers arrived in the tiny village and the Albanians set about taking anything they could find. As well as the obvious ...

U.S.TROOPS KEEPING THE PEACE**FORCES ARE SPREAD AROUND THE GLOBE IN EFFORTS TO CURB ARMED CONFLICT WASHINGTON--American forces are heading into an area marked by death, destruction and repression--and a fragile hope for peace. Their destination: East Timor, where 33 Americans are joining a U.N. mission to ensure calm before a summer vote on independence. From Western Sahara to Panama, Korea to Haiti and now Kosovo, more than 200,000 Americans, both military and civilian, are helping to keep the peace or protect U.S. interests. The Balkans mission--in which at least 7,000 Americans are expected to participate in a NATO-led secutiry force ...

Robert Fisk - Was it rescue or revenge? Bestialisation is an unpleasant sport. The Serbs bestialised the Albanians for years. Terrorists, mafia, communists, Marxists, murderers. Officially directed at the Kosovo Liberation Army, these epithets came to be applied to the entire Kosovo Albanian community. And when General Nabojsa Pavkovic warned that "settling scores... is what we'll do if our country is attacked from the air or the ground," the Albanians knew what to expect. The moment Nato commenced its blitz against Yugoslavia, the harassment of the Kosovo Albanians turned into persecution, and the atrocities into mass murder. But now ...

HEY THERE, HEYDAR! We don't know if they log on to Antiwar.com very much in Azerbaijan: a look at our hit report is quite unrevealing. It lists the "Russian Federation," the "former USSR" and various other ex-Soviet republics, but no Azerbaijan. Yet I am convinced that somebody in that Central Asian "republic" must have read a recent column in which I speculated that this predominantly Muslim oil-rich country could well be the scene of NATO's next intervention. In a country like Azerbaijan, nobody but a government official has access to computers, and so it must have been somebody high up ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Pat Buchanan pledged an intense grass-roots campaign in Iowa this summer, saying a strong showing in an August straw poll will derail the "coronation'' planned by Republican Party leaders. Opening a five-day trip to Iowa, Buchanan said Monday that the same Republican establishment jumping on the bandwagon of Texas Gov. George W. Bush has led the party to defeat in the last two elections. "Now the establishment is telling us who we must nominate again, and they had a coronation set up with George Bush,'' Buchanan said. "We're going to tell the people of Iowa ...

Buchanan Pledges To Challenge Bush By MIKE GLOVER .c The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Pat Buchanan pledged an intense grass-roots campaign in Iowa this summer, saying a strong showing in an August straw poll will derail the ``coronation'' planned by Republican Party leaders. Opening a five-day trip to Iowa, Buchanan said Monday that the same Republican establishment jumping on the bandwagon of Texas Gov. George W. Bush has led the party to defeat in the last two elections. ``Now the establishment is telling us who we must nominate again, and they had a coronation set up with ...