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While in Prattville, Alabama, I accepted an invitation to speak at a youth detention center of approximately 57 young men. The theme or topic of discussion centered around the father. Hardly any of these youngsters had experienced a relationship with their own fathers. Some spoke of stepfathers. Their entire life experience had been the influence of the woman, which had totally consumed their spirit, mind and body. These young men, inmates or wards of the state, thought like women, and they acted like women. They were highly emotional, intensely angry, and very reactive. They had no respect for manhood. The ...

Russia Flexes Muscles in Caucasus In the wake of a series of clashes between Armenian and Azeri forces last week and over the weekend, Baku has charged Moscow with destabilizing the Caucasus in a deliberate attempt to keep Azerbaijan under Russian influence. The Azeri Defense Ministry specifically condemned Russia for supplying arms to Armenia, arguing that this helped fuel the recent clashes. As if to underscore Baku’s charges, four Russian MiG-29 fighter aircraft arrived in Yerevan on June 21, part of a Russian fighter group that, according to Armenian officials, is being deployed to Armenia in the context of a ...

2355 GMT, 990621 Russia/Kosovo - Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin said the Russian Cabinet sent a plan for increasing the number of troops in Kosovo to the Federation Council for approval. The plan calls for sending 3,600 troops to Kosovo to take part in KFOR operations. The Federation Council is reportedly still waiting on a request from President Boris Yeltsin before considering the plan. According to ITAR-TASS, Stepashin urged the Federation Council to act on the plan in the next two days. 2330 GMT, 990621 Russia/U.S./NATO - Duma speaker Gennady Seleznyov said the ratification of the START III treaty will depend ...

MURPHYSBORO, Ill., June 21 (UPI) Authorities in Southern Illinois have charged suspected serial killer Rafael Resendez-Ramirez in the death of an 80-year-old Gorham, Ill., man and his adult daughter. State's Attorney Michael Wepsiec today said Resendez-Ramirez was charged with six counts of first-degree murder and one count of home invasion. A county judge signed an arrest warrant and set bond at $1 million. The FBI today added Resendez-Ramirez to its 10 Most Wanted fugitives list. Besides the Illinois slayings, the Mexican drifter is being sought in five bludgeoning deaths in Texas and another in Kentucky. The killings all took ...

1611 GMT, 990621 – A spokesman for CARE Australia said June 21 that the failed attempt of Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to obtain the release of two aid workers was a "big blow" for the organization. Prime Minister John Howard said the results of the mission should not be characterized as meaning "that the prospects of release in the near future have gone out the window." 1557 GMT, 990621 – A group of 30 Russian architects and builders flew from Moscow to Belgrade on June 21 to aid in the restoration of buildings and bridges destroyed by NATO airstrikes. ...

Talk show host, Lee Rogers (KSFO San Francisco), has been on an antipolice rant during the last couple of weeks. Angering alot of police officers throughout the Bay Area, he has encouraged his listeners to break the law by carrying concealed weapons without a permit to relieve their paranoia concerning crime, and has even dared authorities to come and "try" to get his weapons if a possible future door to door confiscation occures. His listeners have indicating that someone "would get hurt" during some sort of "revolt" by the public, as the police would only be carrying out orders from ...

With graditude to Marathon for his thoughtful commentary, I take the liberty of using his words. "Treat the pagans with great respect. Pray that their words would roll off you without effecting any anger. "Is this how Christ would have me respond?" Better often times to say nothing at all if you can't be gracious and humble. I believe G-d has made substantial progress with me in this area in the last month or two (Though I'm still a *long* way from perfect.) Let's keep each other upright and honest and exhort and encourage one another, shall we? " Signed: ...

Kosovo -- the land of ``kill or be killed'' By Mark Heinrich LONDON, June 22 (Reuters) - ``Life in Kosovo is an elemental struggle for existence...carried out in relentless obedience to nature's law, which says, 'There is no place for you both. You must kill or be killed,''' wrote Balkans scholar Edith Durham. That was in 1908. Durham saw in Kosovo the headwaters of a 20th century river of blood that rose as empires fell, ebbed and flowed from one world war to the next, receded deceptively under communism, then swelled to a hideous climax in 1999. The dismembered corpses ...

PADDY ASHDOWN emerged as a strong contender for the post of UN special envoy in Kosovo yesterday after receiving a lavish public endorsement from Tony Blair. President Clinton has also told Mr Blair that he has no objection to the outgoing Liberal Democrat leader getting the post. Mr Blair told a press conference at the G8 summit that Mr Ashdown had all the qualities necessary to run the civil administration in Kosovo. He said that Mr Ashdown was a "brilliant communicator, very able and totally committed, with a track record of deep commitment to the future of the Balkans". But ...

China needs time to accept U.S. explanation, says Cohen .c Kyodo News Service WASHINGTON, June 21 (Kyodo) - U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen said Monday that China needs time to accept a U.S. explanation that NATO's May 7 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia was a mistake. ''It will take some time perhaps for them to accept that, but that is, in fact, the truth,'' Cohen said in a press conference. Bilateral relations soured after the bombing by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which killed three Chinese journalists and injured at least 20 Chinese nationals. Last week, U.S. ...

Oswald Files Called a Breakthrough By KAREN GULLO .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Documents given by Boris Yeltsin to President Clinton on Sunday could shed light on whether Lee Harvey Oswald schemed to kill President Kennedy while he was an American defector living in the Soviet Union, assassination researchers said. Yeltsin's surprise gift to Clinton - declassified papers containing information gathered by Russian intelligence agencies about Oswald - are a ``monumental breakthrough,'' said historian Kermit Hall, a former member of the Assassination Records Review Board. That federal panel, which went out of business last September, was created to ...

Bush Promotes Abstinence Education .c The Associated Press GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Texas Gov. George W. Bush said Monday that if elected president, he would increase the federal government's role in encouraging sexual abstinence by teen-agers to prevent sexually transmitted disease and unwanted pregnancies. Bush, shown in polls as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, congratulated students and community leaders in an abstinence education program in Greenville. The students were part of a Charleston-based abstinence program, Heritage Community Services. Abstinence isn't just about not having sex, he said: It's about saying ``yes to a happier, healthier future.'' Bush said ...

Gore Pushes Family Values in Tenn. By DAVID FREY .c The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Vice President Al Gore returned home to Tennessee on Monday for an annual conference on family issues to call for strict gun laws and repeat the values theme he used to launch his presidential campaign last week. ``First, families need help getting guns off our streets, out of our schools and away from children and criminals,'' he told educators, law enforcement officials and community leaders at the eighth annual Family Re-Union conference at Vanderbilt University. ``And I say to every family in America: ...

Calif. GOP Primary Plan Gets Setback By SCOTT LINDLAW .c The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A bid to eliminate the state's ``winner-take-all'' Republican presidential primary received a setback Monday that its sponsor predicted would prove fatal to the proposal. The state Assembly elections committee postponed a hearing on the proposal for two days, dimming the prospect it would be signed into law by July 1, as required by national GOP rules, said its principal proponent, Sen. Ray Haynes. Under Haynes' proposal, the state's winner-take-all Republican primary next March 7 would be replaced with one that would allow multiple ...

The plight of a million displaced ethnic Albanians has diverted attention away from 5.3 million Africans who have fled their homes to escape wars, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata. Speaking yesterday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, at the start of a 10-day tour of the Great Lakes region, Mrs Ogata said the need for aid to refugees in Kosovo should not overshadow the requirements of victims of other conflicts. "Kosovo as an emergency appeal is getting a quicker response because of its proximity to important aid agencies, the media and world powers. Some ...

Gun Owners Win Major House Battle --But some Republicans still plugging for gun control Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org   "I am disappointed . . . [with] the vast majority of Democrats [who] voted against a fair and open process, voted against the Juvenile Justice bill and voted against common-sense [sic] gun control legislation." -- House Speaker Denny Hastert, June 21, 1999 (Monday, June 21, 1999) -- House Speaker Denny Hastert is right. The Democrats can be "thanked" for killing the anti-gun juvenile justice bill. ...

Why is it, when I use links, including the e-orchard link, I cannot access FR from my office on any browser? Techies, please respond! P.S. Gonna get a new hard drive in soon....could that be the problem? Or did someone use my name and trash FR, and am I banned? BTW, some peeps know I am a FR junkie. HELP! *hope this goes through* BTW>>> no passwords, logins anymore? *totally cyberspace confused* *But Al did invent Mosaic, right?*

On May 18, Azerbaijan registered an official protest with Beijing, claiming that China sold Armenia eight Typhoon missiles in a deal brokered by Moscow. Recent military cooperation among Moscow, Beijing, and Armenia reveals that the CIS strategic alliance has been dramatically redrawn. This development could result in an intensification of already existing regional conflicts between the former member countries of the Soviet empire. ANALYSIS On May 18, Azerbaijan registered an official protest with Beijing, claiming that China sold eight Typhoon missiles (with a range of 37 miles) to Armenia. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Tofig Zulfugarov further claimed that the weapons were ...

At 7:30 this evening, I had my TV tuned to the Cartoon Channel and, in place of the dose of animated silliness I was expecting, they screened something called Just Think. I watched a couple of minutes of it, and it was typical daytime PBS classroom 'educational' fare, featuring a studio full of the ethnically and culturally diverse (including the ubiquitous woman repeating everything in sign) sitting around on wooden crates discussing how it hurts to be called bad names. Umm-hmm. What it was doing on the Cartoon Channel (which I have never known to run anything but cartoons), I ...

John Coleman writes: "There have been a large number of callers who have asked about Jamie Shea, the British spokesperson for NATO." "They want to know where Shea gets his vocabulary?" "It so happens that I can answer that. Shea is a brain-washed product of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and while his simpering, sneering, smiling lack of style may be his own, the words he uses come straight out of the Tavistock Training Manual. Shea is a British Fascist above all else." Where else would this clown have come by phrases such as "precision-guided ordnance" when what he ...