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John Adams Letter Goes for $635,000 By RICHARD PYLE .c The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A letter written by John Adams three days before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, predicting ``a great expence of blood'' to secure freedom from England, sold at auction Tuesday for a record $635,000. An anonymous buyer captured the letter in spirited bidding against a New York documents dealer representing an unidentified museum. The price was a record for a letter by Adams, the Revolutionary War figure and second president, and a record for any signer of the Declaration of Independence. The ...

President Bill Clinton was visiting an elementary school today and when he visited one of the 4th grade classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked the President if he would like to lead the class in the discussion of the word, "tragedy." So our illustrious leader asks the class for an example of a "tragedy." One little boy stands up and offers, "If my best friend, who lives next door, was playing in the street and a car came along and ran over him, that would be a tragedy." ...

After reading the article in the Sunday Tulsa World, I feel I must tell the real truth about the first Tulsa Gay-Pride Parade.In the paper, on T.V. and on Radio, we were falsely accused. We were accused for doing what we did not do, but what the homos actually did do. I was there with 25 other men, protesting this exhibition of carnality from one hour before it started until one hour after it ended. The news article about this parade, written by Michael Overall, was so misleading and error ridden that it can be called a nearly complete lie. ...

WHITE HOUSE LAWYER CHARGES: BOB WOODWARD DOUBLE CROSSED ME! Yeah right. If this wasn’t sanctioned by the White House, they would have screamed when it was released. Besides that, anyone who understands the modus operandi of Liberals understands that it is propagandistic hogwash. Lovers of the Truth must scoff loudly at this.

i London, England 4 June 09 (TASS): NATO spokesperson Akmet Rugova denied that yesterday's bombing of the German embassy was intentional. "We do not target diplomats," he was quoted as saying. "The bombs overshot their target, a communications and command center for the high Anglican Church." Referring to last night's death of twenty- four civilians in Hyde Park Mr. Rugova was adamant, "The park was a legitimate NATO target. Our intelligence indicated the presence of a policeman's bike in the immediate area, this was confirmed, and the pilot proceeded with his mission." i Washington D.C., P.A.U., 4 June 09 (TASS): ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Recession-hit Venezuela, fearing the Year 2000 computer bug could spark public panic, has hired psychiatrists to design Y2K policy to fit the Latin American nation's ``mentality,'' a senior government official said Monday. Withdrawing a little cash, and having some canned food on hand might come in handy if Year 2000 computer glitches cause temporary disruptions in oil-dependent Venezuela, Hugo Castellanos, head of the government's Year 2000 task force, told a summit co-sponsored by the United Nations. But Venezuelans are already jumpy about their financial situation, and any official suggestion of withdrawals would have people running ...

Lawmaker blasts Clinton Internet address plan By Aaron Pressman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Clinton administration's laborious efforts to privatize the Internet's addressing system could be further slowed as the House Commerce Committee Tuesday issued a blistering critique and opened an investigation into the program. Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley said he was ``greatly concerned'' that the nonprofit corporation chosen to run the system by the administration had exceeded its authority by deciding to impose a $1 fee on Internet Web site addresses. In letters to Secretary of Commerce William Daley and the head of the nonprofit, the Internet Corporation for Assigned ...

BREAKING: Sen. Hatch says he will seek U.S. presidency By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the conservative chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday he intends to make what he admits will be a long-shot bid for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination. ``I'm going to do it,'' Hatch said in an interview with Reuters on Capitol Hill, adding he plans to make a formal announcement in the next week to 10 days. ``I'll be the longest of long shots,'' admitted Hatch, 65, a member of the Senate since 1977. ``But don't ever underestimate Orrin ...

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Congress Wants Energy Dept. Overhaul By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- A call for a radical overhaul of the Energy Department gained momentum in Congress today as Republican and Democratic senators agreed ``fundamental changes'' are needed in the management of the nation's nuclear weapons program. And Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, while continuing to resist creation of a largely independent nuclear weapons agency within his department said he agreed ``more needs to be done'' to improve security at weapons labs and that he might support some department restructuring. ``The nuclear weapons complex needs to be rescued ...

The Cox report indicates China could build weapons that could penetrate administration's missile defense. The most disturbing--and overlooked--conclusion to be drawn from the Cox report on Chinese espionage is that China now has the technical information to build missiles capable of overwhelming the Clinton administration's proposed national missile defense. The White House will not decide until June of next year whether to field such a program. But the deployment timetable is now largely irrelevant because the administration's ground-based missile interceptors would be vulnerable to Chinese countermeasures from Day 1. Beijing currently has two dozen single-warhead, intercontinental-range weapons, 13 of ...

Kosovo's once-ruling Serbs now refugees By Matt Spetalnick PRISTINA, June 22 (Reuters) - In a uniquely Balkan twist of fate, Kosovo Serbs who watched just weeks ago as their ethnic Albanian neighbours were driven from their homes have themselves become refugees in their own land. More than 50,000 frightened Serbs have fled north into the rest of Serbia over the past 10 days, fearing revenge attacks by separatist Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas and returning ethnic Albanians after Yugoslav forces pulled out. But the Yugoslav government, worried that the mass exodus could erode its chances of ever regaining full control of ...

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Cluster Bombs Dropped on School Grounds by NATO Kills Two Gurkha On May 15th, Belgrade charged that a NATO warplane fired at the Kosovo village of Korisa, killing more than 60 civilians in an assault that bore some resemblance to one caused by cluster bombing. The response to that report from Kenneth Bacon, Pentagon spokesman, was "I think there's good reason to be cautious about the Serb reports," I would just urge you to be careful with those reports; don't rush to judgment. NATO is in the middle of investigating this now, and as soon as they finish, we will ...

Iraq says over million die due to U.N. sanctions BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said Tuesday that more than one million Iraqis had died due to the trade sanctions the United Nations imposed on the country for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. ``The mortality rate among Iraqis due to the...sanctions totaled 1,159,807 citizens,'' the official Iraqi News Agency INA said, quoting health ministry statistics. According to these statistics, diseases like inflammation of the respiratory system, diarrhea, malnutrition, high blood pressure, diabetes, and malignant tumors were among the causes of death. Statistics said the infant mortality rate totaled 92.7 cases for every ...

for discussion & information only MealtimeFEBRUARY 1924FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF COOKERY:"Serving the Sunday Dinner When the Cook Goes to Church"The first move on entering the house after church is to turn on the heat under the teakettle. Then the housewife proceeds to her room to exchange her street costume for a pretty housedress. When she returns to the kitchen, the water is boiling, ready to turn on the waiting vegetables.....It is a good custom to allow the father the thirty minutes during which the meal is being completed to romp with his children.Patriotic DutiesJULY 1943FROM THE GH INSTITUTE:"Rationing Has Brougt ...

We can't understand what went wrong in Littleton, Colorado. If only the parents had made sure their children didn't take guns to school, we wouldn't have had such an unbelievable tradgedy. Without a thought, it must have been those gunsIt couldn't have been the 6 or 7 hrs. of TV the average youth spends everyday watching violent movies, which Hollywood continues to produce at an alarming rate. It couldn't have been because approximate one half of our children are being raised in broken homes. It couldn't have been because so many children are raised in day care centers where-in they ...

This comic strip lampoons the poll-driven candidates. Small bore issues rule: The Handy Man Can

Kosovo Blast Caused by NATO Bomb By DONNA BRYSON .c The Associated Press PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - A NATO cluster bomb that exploded as troops cleared munitions from a school killed two peacekeeping soldiers and two villagers - not a Serb booby-trap, the British military said today. The deaths Monday of Lt. Gareth Evans and Sgt. Balaram Rai were the first allied fatalities since NATO entered Kosovo. Dozens of civilians, however, have died in explosions of land mines and booby-traps since peacekeeping troops moved into the southern Serb province on June 12. The explosion occurred at a schoolhouse in Negrovce, ...