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The Korean monsoonal rain season begins around now. For this reason, North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950 around this time of the year in order exploit the cloud cover which minimizes the effectiveness of the South's advantageous air superiority. Accordingly, any new North Korean attack on the South would likely be timed to occur around this time of year....i.e., possibly in the days ahead. BEIJING (June 22, 1999 11:57 p.m. EDT) - North Korea accused its southern neighbor of pushing their rivalry "to the brink of war," jeopardizing the highest level talks between the two governments in 14 ...

A Deal to Demilitarize the K.L.A. New York Times (Lead) Editorial With Serbian troops gone from Kosovo, the most important challenge to peace in the province comes from the ethnic Albanian guerrillas, the Kosovo Liberation Army. On Monday, NATO and the K.L.A. agreed that the group would demilitarize more quickly than previously planned -- but in exchange, NATO would give "due consideration" to making the K.L.A. an army in the style of a National Guard. The agreement, while imperfect, will contribute to the safety of Kosovo's Serbian citizens and NATO peacekeepers by disarming the K.L.A. In the long run it ...

Loan for a Land Grab A New York Times Editorial The World Bank's board of executive directors ought to reject a loan package to China that would be used to relocate about 58,000 impoverished Chinese and Hui Muslim farmers to a remote area on the Tibetan plateau traditionally inhabited by Tibetans and Mongolians. In the past, China has used migration policies to tighten control over Tibetan areas and to diminish the viability of the distinct Tibetan culture. The World Bank should not be in the business of financing this destructive scheme. The Chinese Government has rejected criticism of the project ...

LIBERTIES / By MAUREEN DOWD Bushfellas WASHINGTON -- There's a story out of Hollywood that Francis Ford Coppola is wooing Leonardo diCaprio to play the young Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather, Part IV." It is hard to picture the girlish Leo as the super-macho gangster depicted with memorable volatility and virility by James Caan in the original "Godfather." And after "Godfather III" soiled the legacy of the first two Oscar-winning films, is it really necessary to beat a dead horse's head? Besides, the 2000 political race is already a sequel, with a cast of familiar names -- Bush, Gore, Clinton, ...

Gov. George W. Bush often tells political audiences that the world remains a dangerous place in the post-Cold War era. But it can also be treacherous on the campaign trail, and the press is about to remind Bush just how treacherous it can be! "The Texas governor had a little trouble with the new world order Tuesday confusing Slovakia, a spinoff from the former Czechoslovakia, with Slovenia, a breakaway from the former Yugoslavia," the KNIGHT RIDDER wire is set to report in Wednesday AM cycles. "Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes acknowledged that her boss is still getting up to speed ...

House bill has government buying Revolutionary war sites 6.14 p.m. ET (2215 GMT) June 22, 1999 By Cassandra Burrell, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government would contribute up to $4.25 million to buy land to protect the Paoli and Brandywine battlefields in Pennsylvania, two significant Revolutionary War sites, under a bill the House passed Tuesday. Under the bill, passed 418-4, the money must be matched dollar-for-dollar with private money. Paoli Battlefield is a 40-acre tract in suburban Philadelphia where more than 50 Americans died in September 1777. It was the third major battle in the failed campaign to ...

Folks, Tune into the Senate hearing on nuclear security now airing on C-Span. You will hear our "senators" falling all over themselves to "spread the blame" for the current nuclear treason we've all seen. According to Rudman, "there's enough blame to go around". It's totally unconnected with Clinton's receiving Communist Chinese agents in the Whitehouse - it's all a bureaucratic snafu. All we need is a re-organization of the DOE - we all want to work together - I WANT TO PUKE!

TESTIMONY of David Boaz Executive Vice President Cato Institute before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources Committee on Government Reform U.S. House of Representatives Drug Legalization, Criminalization, and Harm Reduction June 16, 1999 Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the subcommittee: Thank you for inviting me to testify before you on the successes and failures of our current policy of drug prohibition, and on possible alternatives. Ours is a federal republic. The federal government has only the powers granted to it in the Constitution. And the United States has a tradition of individual liberty, vigorous civil ...

For fair use June 23, 1999 In Wake of Espionage, Debate on New Nuclear Arms Agency By JEFF GERTH ASHINGTON -- The Senate and the Clinton Administration moved closer on Tuesday to a drastic legislative restructuring of the Energy Department, but in Senate testimony Energy Secretary Bill Richardson continued to resist a key element, a proposal to create a new agency to oversee nuclear weapons programs. The proposal to establish an Agency for Nuclear Stewardship within the Energy Department is scheduled to be considered by the Senate this week. Support for a separate office to oversee government nuclear weapons programs ...

STANKOVIC, Macedonia (Reuters) - Choking back tears, President Clinton ran a gauntlet of hugs, kisses and heartbreaking tales of horror from grateful Kosovo refugees during a visit to their tent city shelter Tuesday. Chanting ``USA, USA'' and ``Clinton, Clinton,'' thousands of ethnic Albanians gave the U.S. leader a hero's welcome in the Stankovic camp, where many refugees have already left for home in the wake of NATO's thrust into Kosovo 10 days ago. The tour began with a family-to-family visit before Clinton, gripping a hand-held microphone on a makeshift stage of army crates and plywood, urged the crowd to wait ...

June 22, 1999 Gun Dealer Blasts Manufacturers For Lax Policing of Gun-Show Sales By PAUL M. BARRETT Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Gun dealer Robert Lockett is considered dangerous -- by his own industry. The veteran proprietor of The Second Amendment gun shop in this Kansas City suburb argues that gun manufacturers could -- and should -- police gun sales more vigilantly. Mr. Lockett says as much in a forthcoming column in an influential industry trade magazine. The article, scathing in tone, links lax manufacturer practices to the sale at gun shows of weapons ...

When they arrived they showed their badges and walked in an open patio door, and told me to sit down and answer questions. They were all about my private life from when I can remember. Everything from soup to nuts. Then they asked me if I said what the aide said I said. I told them I cannot remember exactly every thing I said but I did remember what I put in my last post you all read. Then they asked me if I said " This country would be better off if Clinton were dead." I said, "I do ...

NARAL: Bush's Actions Contrast With His Image on Abortion Politics/Elections News Keywords: BUSH NARAL ABORTION Source: U.S. Newswire Published: 6/22/99 Author: William Lutz, NARAL Posted on 06/22/1999 17:05:35 PDT by Wait4Truth NARAL: Bush's Actions Contrast With His Image on Abortion-- U.S. Newswire 22 Jun 11:05 NARAL: George W. Bush's Actions as Governor Contrast With His Image on Abortions Image as Centrist on Abortion To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: William J. Lutz of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, 202-973-3032 WASHINGTON, June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights ...

An angry Robert Lee, husband of slaying victim Barbara Lee, and daughter Liz walk to the D.A.'s office in Somerville Monday.  (Photograph by Karen Pulfer Focht) 'He's got more rights than my wife did' Slaying suspect's hearing upsets Lee By Tom Bailey Jr. The Commercial Appeal SOMERVILLE, Tenn. - The husband of slaying victim Barbara Ann Lee on Monday marched into the District Attorney General's Office here demanding to know why no prosecutor showed up for a hearing in the case. Told by a receptionist that Dist. Atty. Gen. Elizabeth Rice was in Covington and unavailable, Robert C. Lee thundered, ...

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Paris, Wednesday, June 23, 1999Austerity Plan to Test Schroeder's GovernmentBy John Schmid International Herald TribuneFRANKFURT - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is due to announce Wednesday an unpopular austerity plan that political analysts view as the last chance for his shaky coalition government to revive Europe's biggest economy. Mr. Schroeder said Tuesday that the plan, which would cut 30 billion Deutsche marks ($16 billion), or 1.5 percent, from next year's budget, has the support of ''a large majority'' of parliamentary deputies in his center-left Social Democratic Party. The cabinet meets Wednesday to approve the package of budget savings, welfare measures and ...

Paris, Wednesday, June 23, 1999Freedom for Kosovo Is Not a Dangerous PrecedentBy Jonathan Tepperman International Herald TribuneNEW YORK - Did NATO's intervention in Kosovo rewrite the rules on self-determination? Has the go-ahead been given to every ethnic group that wants to carve out its own mini-state? The answer is ''no.'' It is important to understand the old rule. Traditional international law recognizes the right to self-determination. But it understands that when taken to an extreme, self-determination conflicts with national sovereignty, a country's right to keep itself intact. And so, the right to self-determination - as set out in treaties ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A U.S. Army National Guard captain found dead at a Kentucky Army base with 26 stab wounds to the neck and chest has been declared a "suicide" by U.S. Army investigators. The family of the deceased soldier and an outside forensic pathologist dispute the Army's findings. Captain Gordon Hess, of Jamestown, New York, was found dead the morning of March 4, 1998, in a creek bed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, while on an exercise with his New York Army National Guard unit. The cause of death was "multiple stab wounds to the neck and chest," an ...

The Kosovo peacekeeping situation, marked by a confrontation between Russia and NATO over command of the former's troops in the troubled region, presents one of the sternest tests yet to President Leonid Kuchma's multi-vectored foreign policy. That policy, whereby Kuchma presents one face to Russia and an entirely different face to the West, has been carefully nurtured by the president over the last few years. It has led the president to make numerous inane comments in order to appease Russia and that part of the Ukrainian electorate that prefers closer alignment with its giant neighbor. A blatant example was ...

Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. Don Adams knew he had the right So he came that fateful night He peacefully would hold a sign The right that's also yours and mine The Teamsters came to Philly To crack some skulls for Willy Attacks on Adams were done by design The D.A. said "I just don't know" Though he saw the video The union thugs threw every punch It's caught on film and not a hunch So D.A. start performing Your office we'll be storming It's time for you to ...