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Uncontrolled Illegal Immigrations Gluts Labor Market America under stealth attack and does nothing. America is not longer ruled by laws. They are selectively enforced. The government is corrupt and a joke.

Before we grow too numb to such tales, here is another short account of what soldiers and police did to a man they suspected of belonging to a rebel army. They dragged him from his bed at 4.30am, shot at his screaming wife and baby, and marched him to barracks where they made him run barefoot across broken glass and barbed wire between two lines of military police who beat him. They tied him up with a bag over his head, and beat him repeatedly; a week later, 17lb lighter, he was photographed naked and sent to a camp, where ...

Too many commentators are missing the point about the national security significance of the Cox Report and its revelation of China’s theft of U.S. nuclear secrets. It is time to face the truth: This President and this administration are singularly culpable for orchestrating a politically inspired coverup in order to advance policies they knew were causing harm to U.S. national security. Let’s not be distracted by the self-serving Clinton spin: that everybody does it; that it all happened during previous administrations; that there is equal blame to go around on all sides, that Clinton acted quickly and properly when ...

Few Americans looked beyond guns as they contemplated the bizarre tragedies in Jonesboro, Arkansas; Springfield, Oregon; Notes, Idaho; Littleton, Colorado; and Conners, Georgia when teenagers brought guns to school and opened fire on their friends, classmates, and faculty members. The gun-ban advocates screamed in unison as each tragedy, or near tragedy, unfolded on the front pages of the nation's newspapers or on the evening news. The time had come, they screamed, when we needed to outlaw the private ownership of guns in America. After the tragedy at the Columbine High School, followed exactly one month later by the wounding ...

NEW YORK POST, NEWSWEEK: DRUDGE RADIO MAY GO NATIONAL "Matt Drudge is reportedly close to signing a syndication deal with ABC Radio Networks that will take his radio show nationwide," NEWSWEEK reported on Monday. "Reliable sources report that the Hollywood-based Drudge will go national on Sunday nights early next month," declared the NEW YORK POST. "It promises to be the biggest roll out in modern talk-radio history," claimed RADIODIGEST.COM. Can they all be wrong? New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Detroit and Boston? Quick, call Joe Lockhart. Something must be done about all of this -- before ...

Russian Peacekeepers Set for Kosovo By ANNA DOLGOV .c The Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) - Russian peacekeepers can deploy to Kosovo within hours of receiving the go-ahead from the upper house of parliament, officials said Tuesday. The upper house, the Federation Council, is scheduled to meet in extraordinary session Friday to consider a plan to send troops to the province. The body is expected to swiftly approve the order, and Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev said troops could be ready in five hours to leave for Yugoslavia, according to Russian news reports. ``The operation to send Russian peacekeepers to Kosovo has ...

SKOPJE, June 22 (AFP) - Praising NATO for its campaign in Kosovo, US President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the alliance could intervene elsewhere in Europe or in Africa to fight repression. "In Africa or central Europe, we will not allow, only because of differences in ethnic background or religion or racism, people to be attacked. We will stop that," Clinton told US troops gathered at the Skopje airport. "We can do it now. We can do it tomorrow, if it is necessary, somewhere else," he said. Clinton earlier visited the Stenkovec camp where he got a rousing welcome from ...

Jackson Cautious Over End of War .c The Associated Press ROME (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson cautioned Tuesday against celebrating the end of the war in Kosovo too soon. ``The bombing has stopped, but the war is not over,'' said Jackson, who was in Rome to receive an Italian peace prize for winning freedom for three U.S. soldiers captured by Serbs in the early days of the Kosovo conflict. NATO officially declared the 78-day air campaign over Sunday, more than a week after the last bomb fell on Serb-led Yugoslavia. A force of about 20,000 NATO-led peacekeepers is now ...

SKOPJE, June 22 (AFP) - Praising NATO for its campaign in Kosovo, US President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the alliance could intervene elsewhere in Europe or in Africa to fight repression. "In Africa or central Europe, we will not allow, only because of differences in ethnic background or religion or racism, people to be attacked. We will stop that," Clinton told US troops gathered at the Skopje airport. "We can do it now. We can do it tomorrow, if it is necessary, somewhere else," he said. Clinton earlier visited the Stenkovec camp where he got a rousing welcome from ...

WASHINGTON -- In an unprecedented move, the World Bank is expected to approve a contentious loan for China despite objections from its largest shareholder, the United States, senior sources at the bank said Tuesday.The World Bank postponed debate on a controversial $160 million loan to China for two days, until Thursday, as a senior U.S. official said Washington would vote against the credit which has angered Tibetan activists.The loan would be used in part to resettle 58,000 poor Chinese farmers from an overpopulated area to traditional Tibetan lands in Qinghai province. Neighboring the Tibet autonomous region, the province was the ...

Boston Sued Over School Assignments .c The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) - A lawsuit claims four children were wrongly denied admission to certain Boston public schools because of their skin color - white - and the litigation threatens to end the city's race-based admissions policies for good. The suit was filed 25 years to the day after U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. ruled that segregation in Boston schools violated the equal protection of black children under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. The 1974 ruling instituted a controversial busing program to achieve more balanced racial populations in the ...

BRITISH HELSINKI HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP KARABAKH, ABKHAZIA – WHERE NEXT FOR NATO? "Kosovo may become a next step in the evolution of a new European or even international order" Michael Lemmon, US Ambassador to Armenia, April 1999 It would have been unthinkable even a year ago to imagine the NATO alliance calling the shots in the former Soviet Union. But that may very well soon be the case. The Caucasus region seems to be bubbling up with many of the ingredients which led to the Kosovo conflict – plus oil. From the early 1990s, Western businessmen led by the US ...

Bombs Dropped At Sea, Serbs Warned with Friendly Signals from NATO Pilots and Classical War Skills Concealing Arms Resulted in Minimal Losses Serbian Army has shown exceptional tactics and classical war skills in avoiding open confrontation with NATO and in concealing arms and preserving troops during air raids, which resulted in minimal losses and casualties. NATO peace enforcers were astonished looking at Serbian tanks and artillery withdrawing from Kosovo virtually intact. This was the case in other regions, as well. A small but deeply human role in avoiding damages and casualties should be acknowledged to NATO pilots, as well. ...

Clinton To Aid Those Who Defied NRA By RON FOURNIER .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton will lend political aid to Democratic lawmakers who risk their seats to vote for gun control, his chief of staff said Tuesday as the White House prepared to turn its focus to domestic issues such as crime and prescription drugs for the elderly. ``We'll go out and do anything we can to help people who vote the right way,'' John Podesta said in an interview with The Associated Press. On the drug plan, White House officials have said they would give ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Baggy Eyes for Fatigued Clinton SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press June 22, 1999; Tuesday 15:35 Eastern Time SKOPJE, Macedonia Eight days, five countries, little sleep and lots of stress have taken a noticeable toll on President Clinton. As he wrapped up his European tour Tuesday, the baggage he carried back to Washington was mostly under his reddened eyes. On the flight between Macedonia and Italy the journey's last leg before Air Force One pointed home Clinton sat next to his wife with a ...

Some question scope, cost of humanitarian interventions President Clinton yesterday touted the idea that Kosovo-like interventions will be needed to deal with future humanitarian crises around the world.      "Democracy, tolerance, and human rights must prevail everywhere, for no nation is safe, no prosperity is stable, if conflict and refugees and crime and terrorism can be pushed across borders," Mr. Clinton told a cheering crowd in the small Alpine nation of Slovenia, which broke away from Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia nearly a decade ago.     The idea has become the central theme of Mr. Clinton's seven-day European tour, conducted even as the last of ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. UPI Science News CHICAGO, June 22 (UPI) - A committee of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates recommends (Tuesday) that the AMA establish a national labor organization - a union - to represent its members. The report says a collective bargaining unit should be made available for employed doctors, hospital residents and fellows. At the annual meeting of the House of Delegates in Chicago, the committee also advocates offering similar negotiating services to self-employed physicians if antitrust strictures against such action are removed by pending federal legislation.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- The commission appointed by Congress to hash out the pros and cons of e-commerce taxes, meeting for the first time here Monday, nearly eight months after such taxes were banned for three years, knows what it needs to accomplish. It just doesn't know how it's going to pay for it. The 19-member Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, formed after the Internet Tax Freedom Act's passage last October, must advise Congress on what should happen after the current e-commerce tax ban runs out. The decisions the panel will make won't be easy: it must balance the concerns of ...

World Bank may back China loan despite U.S. vote By Mark Egan WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - In an unprecedented move, the World Bank is expected to approve a contentious loan for China despite objections from its largest shareholder, the United States, senior sources at the bank said on Tuesday. The World Bank postponed debate on a controversial $160 million loan to China for two days, until Thursday, as a senior U.S. official said Washington would vote against the credit which has angered Tibetan activists. The loan would be used in part to resettle 58,000 poor Chinese farmers from an ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton Receives Prestigious Mother Teresa Award Marsha Berry, Toby Graff or Julie Mason, 202-456-2960, all of the Office of the First Lady U.S. Newswire June 22, 1999 13:24 Eastern Time WASHINGTON, June 22 -- Today, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was honored with the Mother Teresa Award, Albania's highest civilian honor. This rarely granted award was presented to Mrs. Clinton for her dedication to and actions performed in support of humanitarian relief efforts. Although this award includes an ...