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KOSOVO HOMES DEATH TRAPS By NILES LATHEM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PODEJEVO, Kosovo THE minute Isak Hasani returned to his home with his parents and nine siblings, he knew that the war that had sent him to the mountains for the past three months was not over. Hasani discovered that not only had the Serbs trashed the house he'd lived in all his life in this ethnic Albanian enclave , but that they'd turned it into a death trap. At the front door, he looked down and saw a small wire. He stopped and heard a steady beeping sound. In the darkness, he ...

2 BRITS KILLED CLEARING EXPLOSIVES By DEBORAH ORIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WASHINGTON - Two British soldiers clearing bombs from a Kosovo school were killed yesterday in an explosion that marked the first deaths of NATO peacekeepers - and also took the lives of at least two Kosovars. The incident came as President Clinton called on Serbs to "reject the murderous role" of Slobodan Milosevic in a stepped-up dump-Slobbo push by NATO. The dead peacekeepers were identified as Gurkhas - British troops from Nepal who are famed for their bravery and who led the way when peacekeepers first marched into Kosovo on June ...

BUSH TOPS GORE BY BRIDGING THE GENDER GAP: POLL By DEBORAH ORIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WASHINGTON - Republican 2000 front-runner George W. Bush is still way ahead of Vice President Al Gore - by more than 17 points - now that both have launched their presidential bids, a new national poll shows. Bush got a boost from his kickoff and now has the support of 54.6 percent of likely voters, while Gore is behind at 37.4 percent in the Reuter-Zogby survey, the first poll since last week's campaign kickoff. There's no gender gap - Bush's lead is as popular among women as ...

BUSH BESTS GORE IN ROUND ONE By DICK MORRIS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE 2000 election started last week when Vice President Al Gore announced his candidacy and Texas Gov. George W. Bush began his campaign. The result? Advantage Bush. After Bush II's day in the sun, we vividly remember his self-proclaimed label as the "compassionate conservative." From Gore II's announcement, one only recalls his clumsy efforts to distance himself from Clinton's sexual escapades. Bush, called "W" by his colleagues, spoke with eloquence and passion of "a quiet river of goodness and kindness that cuts through stone." He marked a clear shift in ...

NOTE TO HILLARY: NEW YORK IS NOT A SUPPORT GROUP By ANDREA PEYSER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HILLARY CLINTON isn't running for Senate. The woman with a weakness for freebies is acting out her private therapy sessions in public. There's something unsettling about the daily dose of Hillary the people of New York are expected to ingest - why she'll run, where she'll sleep and with whom. Months into her threatened campaign, it's as if Hillary Clinton isn't seeking a seat in the Senate at all. Rather, Hillary Clinton is searching for love. She flirts and she teases and she demands attention, exuding ...

CUNY TASK-FORCE CHIEF ACCUSED OF 'ETHNIC CLEANSING' By ROBERT HARDT Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Queens councilwoman sparked an uproar in City Hall yesterday - accusing the head of the mayor's City University task force of "ethnic cleansing" for recommending fewer remedial programs at CUNY. As former Yale University President Benno Schmidt testified before the City Council's Committee on Higher Education, panel chairwoman Helen Marshall told him: "In reading this report, I get a feeling of ethnic cleansing, all right?" Clearly angry, Schmidt shot back: "You're wrong Mrs. Marshall. Hey, look, I'm not accusing you or the people who disagree with me ...

Overheard at the local McDonald's tonight. A little league team was celebrating the end of their season. Two parents were having a conversation. One said, "Well, maybe we can have Johnny come over and play this summer. We have a pool and everything". Other mom: "Well actually, on weekdays, we have some schoolwork to take care" Other mom:"Oh that's right, you homeschool. I think that's great that you would make that kind of effort. How is that going?" Other mom: "Well actually, we've fallen behind a bit and have some catching up to do. A lot of distractions, you know."

WHO THE HELL ARE THE KLA? BY WAY OF A SMALL INTRODUCTION* The U.S. is protecting a Bosnia with three different entities, but it does not want Kosovo to be part of the Yugoslavian entity. On this level, the participants of the Bosnian struggle can all be called war criminals, and that goes for the Croatian leadership, also. The free world cannot and must not accept the excuse that the U.S. had the "right" to intervene, or that NATO had the right to intervene in Serbian affairs. The only way in which intervention by the United States under the guise ...

"Clintons medical records", gone with the wind of time

JANUARY 1993: Clinton takes office. MARCH: Clinton and Reno decide jointly to fire all U.S. attorneys at Justice Department effective immediately. APRIL: - Clinton gives James Riady and John Huang tour of White House on the same day over 80 people die at Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. This is their fifth visit in only a week. Janet Reno, who had erroneously claimed children were being abused inside the compound, would later take responsibility for the deaths. -James Riady escourts governor of Jakarta, Indonesia to East Wing of White House. White House officials provide no details of the meeting. ...

The DOW is set to explode tomorrow.

The E-Man Cometh: Will The Postman Strike Back? Copyright CMP Media, June 1999 By BILL FREZZA Adams Capital Management As the winds of deregulation sweep across the globe, revitalizing vast industries, one institution stands immune: the U.S. Postal Service. This is no surprise. With almost 900,000 largely union employees, situated in every congressional district, the Post Office is a potent political force, dedicated first and foremost to its own perpetuation. Yet, the gales of the Internet blow strong, oblivious to boundaries established by mere politicians. It doesn't take a genius to look a few years ahead and envision a shrinking ...

The Drudge Report mentioned an upcoming concert by Michael Jackson in Korea. The good news is that the tickets aren't selling well. The bad news is that Jackson has somehow gotten a number of quite popular stars to appear with him. I realize that Jackson has not yet been convicted of any crimes, but there is enough suspicion in my mind that I believe him to be a very bad character. In any case, does anyone know of a list (or a source of information) for all personalities that have worked or appeared with Jackson since his civil litigation became ...

On May 25, 1999, the bipartisan congressional Cox Committee issued its 872-page report detailing efforts by China to obtain, through legal and illegal means, a stunning range of U.S. commercial and military technology secrets. China's expanding nuclear capabilities and its role as a proliferator of military technology highlight the need for the United States to deploy a national missile defense. Yet, despite the Cox report's startling revelations and clear evidence that the Third World missile threat is growing, President Bill Clinton refuses to make a decision on the deployment of a national missile defense until June 2000. For its ...

African Americans and white Americans differ markedly over the 20th century events they perceive as the most compelling for the period, a new History Channel study shows. For African Americans, the civil rights movements (50% vs. 11% for white Americans) and major health issues (21% vs. 12%) are by far the most interesting events of the 20th century, according to the study conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide for The History Channel. For white Americans, the topmost interest is wars and other international crises (24% vs. 4% for African Americans). The survey was conducted in conjunction with the premiere of the ...

ABROAD AT HOME / By ANTHONY LEWIS The Question of Evil There can be no doubt, now, about the scale of Serbian atrocities in Kosovo. Western reporters and war-crimes investigators have begun to confirm what Kosovar Albanian refugees described. NATO officers estimate that at least 10,000 ethnic Albanians were murdered; the figure could be much higher. Families were burned alive in their homes, children killed in front of their mothers. The details are so terrible that, in our safe lives, we are inclined to turn away -- to stop reading, to change the channel. But we must know what happened. ...

An email to Fox Network News, referring to the movies that are coming out this summer..."If God doesn't destroy America soon, He's going to have to apologize for Sodom and Gomorrah!

As I do not know how to post a scanned in document, I will try to paraphrase what I saw in this weeks NEWSWEEK magazine, page 31. They have a little chart titled "Do Laws Save Lives?". On this chart it says "Firearm deaths per 100,000" In 1993, the graph was plotted at 4000. So, I take this to mean that 4000 deaths occurred per hundred thousand. Assume that there are only 200,000,000 Americans, this would be 8,000,000 dead in 1993. Anyone else have the magazine and like to offer an opinion?

Three years ago, the American journalist Nicholas von Hoffmann astonished the readers of the Washington Post. "Enough new information," he wrote, "has come to light about the Communists in the US government that we can now say that point by point Joe McCarthy got it all wrong and yet was closer to the truth than those who ridiculed him." Written by a veteran liberal columnist, and in a newspaper of quite numbing political correctness, this was startling stuff. But then von Hoffmann was alluding to Venona, or how the Americans had read the Russians' most secret spy signals, the ...

7 Democratic Hopefuls for Senate Seat Are Questioned by Party Leaders By JERRY GRAY METUCHEN, N.J. -- Trying to assess their candidates and their party's chances in next year's United States Senate race, Democratic leaders met Monday with the seven people who have expressed interest in running. Seeking to avoid an internecine primary that would leave the winner too battered to defeat the Republican challenger, the chairman of the state party and the leaders of the 21 county committees had hoped to persuade at least some of the seven to quit the race. But each of the would-be nominees -- ...