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Clinton To Aid Those Who Defied NRA By RON FOURNIER AP Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is promising political life support to Democratic lawmakers who risk their seats to vote for gun control. ``We'll go out and do anything we can to help people who vote the right way,'' White House chief of staff John Podesta said Tuesday. Podesta made the remarks in an interview with The Associated Press as his boss was returning from a week-long European trip prepared to refocus on domestic policies such as gun control, race relations and prescription drug coverage for the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) via NewsEdge Corporation -- Politicians can lie to the public because President Clinton did it and got away with it, an influential South African regional leader was reported Wednesday as saying."It is accepted and it is not unusual anywhere in the world. It wasn't the end of Bill Clinton's life," Ndaweni Mahlangu, newly elected premier of Mpumalanga province told journalists.Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of obstruction of justice and perjury related to a relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, but was eventually acquitted by the Senate.Mahlangu, appointed by new South African ...

Well, it seems that we have decided that the Republicans are so bad that we want Al Gore to be president in 2000. I think we, therefore, need to start gathering evidence so we can begin to evolve the purpose of this site to be impeaching President Al Gore.

In the new shock movie EYES WIDE SHUT, Tom Cruise kisses a dead woman and discovers the taboo pleasure of necrophilia!That is just one of the bizarre moments that will be found in a new WARNER BROS. film, set for release next month.The secrecy around Master Director Stanley Krubrick's last work was smashed on Tuesday when the first review suddenly appeared in a London newspaper and quickly spread around the world via Internet and e-mail -- a review that has completely taken one senior WARNER BROS. executive by surprise!"This is an outrage," the executive, who asked not to be named, ...

The Kosovo Liberation Army has no intention of permanently giving up its guns or abandoning the ultimate goal of independence, a hard-line KLA general said yesterday. The statement called into doubt an agreement to turn in the rebels' heavy weapons within a month and completely demilitarize after three months, which was signed on Monday by the KLA's political leader. "The agreement does not demand that we give up our guns," KLA commander Rrustem Mustafa told the rebels' Kosova Press news service in Pristina yesterday. "The arms will be gathered at certain places, and the KLA will take care of them ...

The Senate may vote as early as today to reorganize the Department of Energy and overhaul security at the nation's weapons labs in the wake of allegations of Chinese nuclear espionage, a key senator said yesterday. Sen. Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, predicted that the Senate will quickly pass legislation to create a new, semiautonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Energy Department. The bill, however, appears likely to run into opposition in the House of Representatives, where some members want to create a fully independent nuclear agency and others want to ...

Fatherhood -- 1999 Father's Day is not only a day to express our gratitude for all our fathers have done for us, but also a day to reflect on the importance of fathers to society as a whole. Although a January 1999 poll found that 72 percent of Americans believe that fatherlessness is the most significant family or social problem facing America, this is apparently a problem that many don't care enough about to solve. * Forty percent of the children of divorced parents haven't seen their dads in the past year. * Thirty-six percent of children, approximately 24.7 million, ...

Ethnic tensions are straining the U.N. peace plan for Kosovo, with Serb houses burning in one Kosovo city and Serbs barring ethnic Albanians from crossing a bridge in another. The foreign ministers of Italy, Britain, Germany and France are visiting Kosovo today to meet with U.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello and NATO's Kosovo commander, Lt. Gen. Mike Jackson. Smoke from burning houses in the divided city of Pec rose up into the mountains Tuesday. Ethnic Albanians watched one Serb house burn and claimed the Serbs had set the fire themselves. The residents couldn't be found. Italian peacekeepers ...

Speeding up the Development of Space Industry to Meet the New Challenge By Mr. Ding Henggao, Minister of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence This paper discusses the urgency to further develop Chinese space technological industry; analyzes the gaps between China and other advanced countries in space industry, including technological level, development scale, application scope and investment; describes the current severe situation that the China's space industry is faced with, proposes the overall objective, guiding principles and major tasks of the China's space technological sector in the Ninth-Five Year Plan and the coming decade. Finally, it ...

Bradley: Voters Seek 'Fresh Start' By MIKE GLOVER .c The Associated Press CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Voters are weary of scandals in the Clinton administration and want ``a fresh start'' as they eye Democratic presidential candidates, former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley argues. Injecting the volatile issue of the impeachment of President Clinton into the Democratic fight, Bradley said the scandals mean ``the trust is frayed'' in government and repairs are the first challenge facing contenders. ``We have to repair that trust,'' said Bradley. Bradley is the only announced rival of Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic presidential ...

Questions Linger Over Kosovo Costs By TOM RAUM .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Kosovo peace plan has quieted many of the loudest congressional critics of the NATO air campaign. But many questions remain, including the central ones of how much peacekeeping and reconstruction will cost and how they will be funded. The Republican-led Congress has shown little enthusiasm for paying for any continuing operations in the Balkans, or anywhere else. ``It will probably cost more than most people think,'' President Clinton suggested on Tuesday while in Macedonia. But he added that the sum for Kosovo would be ...

Ethnic Tensions Strain U.N. Plan By DONNA BRYSON .c The Associated Press PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - Ethnic tensions are straining the U.N. peace plan for Kosovo, with Serb houses burning in one Kosovo city and Serbs barring ethnic Albanians from crossing a bridge in another. The foreign ministers of Italy, Britain, Germany and France are visiting Kosovo today to meet with U.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello and NATO's Kosovo commander, Lt. Gen. Mike Jackson. Smoke from burning houses in the divided city of Pec rose up into the mountains Tuesday. Ethnic Albanians watched one Serb house burn and ...

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June 23, 1999 Jefferson in New Jersey When Rosie O'Donnell asked the star of "Annie Get Your Gun" to edit out a reference to shooting in one of the lead songs, the papers and late-night T.V. rightly hooted. But what are we to make of a similar effort in the New Jersey Assembly to censor Thomas Jefferson? Earlier this month New Jersey's lower house passed a bill that would require two sentences from the Declaration of Independence to be "orally recited" in the public schools every day along with the pledge of allegiance. But a senate committee has now ...

June 23, 1999 Christian Coalition Loses Its Tax Exemption. Who's Next? By Leslie Lenkowsky, a professor of philanthropic studies and public policy at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition decided earlier this month not to appeal the Internal Revenue Service's denial of its tax exemption. By doing so, the group finally acknowledged what has long been evident: that it is a political organization rather than a group primarily concerned with promoting the "social welfare" of its members. Social-welfare organizations -- 501(c)4's, in IRS parlance -- are not supposed to back candidates or be primarily engaged ...

Kosovo Children Tug Clinton's Heart By SANDRA SOBIERAJ .c The Associated Press STENKOVEC CAMP, Macedonia (AP) - It wasn't the orphaned girl with the hushed sob who pleaded for President Clinton's help finding her brother and sister. It was the dry-eyed 4-year-old who tugged hardest at his heart. ``That glazed-over look,'' the president said, passing his open palm in front of his eyes. Leaving behind the 10,000 war-scarred ethnic Albanians from Kosovo at camp Stenkovec I on Tuesday, Clinton reflected at length aboard his C-17 on what will become of them. He comes home today with a scrapbook of wrenching ...

Free Traders -- Not Traitors by John Sophocleus I've learned that the quickest, most effective way of sorting the Rebels from the Yankees is by asking this simple question: Who was the last president of the United States? Any Rebel worth his salt understands (at least intuitively) James Buchanan, was the last chief executive to preside over a voluntary coalition of sovereign states joined together by the compact known the Constitution of the United States. Eleven Southern states, believing they were free to leave this voluntary coalition, formed a new compact in 1861 and struggled valiantly to preserve the ...

A DISABILITY MUST BE DISABLING The Supreme Court has finally injected a note of sanity into the Americans With Disabilities Act, one of the most confusing and ill-advised laws ever to emerge from the halls of Congress. Passed in 1990, the ADA was intended to provide equal opportunity for disabled Americans. Instead, it has turned into a bonanza for tort lawyers who've promoted everyday ailments into "disabilities" that must be accommodated at burdensome expense to business owners. (Congress, by the way, exempted itself from complying with the ADA.) Now the high court has significantly narrowed the definition of what ...

I watched part of the 3 hour hearings today and Sen. Inhofe rocked! Hey, almost all of them did because they weren't taking Richardson's BS! I was upset it wouldn't be repeated but it will this AM. Also the big deal...Freepers get ready for Washington Journal Call In this am... NOTE: CSpan II 05:16am to 08:28am ET 02:16am to 05:28am PT Senate Committee Security at Department of Energy Laboratories Cmte.: Energy and Natural Resources Cmte.: Select Intelligence Cmte.: Governmental Affairs Cmte.: Armed Services Dirksen Senate Office Building ID : 125241 Length : 3 hr 11 min Event date : 06/23/99 ...

CHUCK, JESSE GO TO BAT FOR IRANIAN JEWS HELD AS SPIES By BRIAN BLOMQUIST WASHINGTON - Several members of Congress yesterday denounced the arrest of 13 Iranian Jews on apparently trumped-up spying charges, and Jesse Jackson is weighing a trip to Iran to seek their release. The Senate last night was set to pass a resolution offered by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to condemn their arrest and freeze relations with Iran until all 13 are released. "The whole world is watching," Schumer said yesterday as he encouraged other industrialized nations to turn up the pressure on Iran. The decision ...