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CHANGES IN THE HEART Richard Power 23 June 1999 catfish@hitter.net Somehow I do not vision the effectiveness of our "victory" in Yugoslavia the same way our esteemed President does, nor am I convinced that changes in the attitudes and beliefs of any people can be effected by bombing them into submission. I am not a Rhodes Scholar, as is our President, but believe I have enough sense to realise that one's mind cannot be changed within by slapping him around. His outward actions may well indicate a change because self-preservation becomes the determining factor, but take away the restraints and ...

Just you Wait!!! Exit Newt, Enter Ken Starr. Now that Hillary Clinton is on the witness list for the Webster Hubbell CORRUPTION TRIAL, the liberal media will hang the "Ken Starr Republican" label on ALL REPUBLICANS. Racist, Facist, Extremist, Radical, Hateful, KEN STARR REPUBLICANS. Just you watch...... The Bill Clinton/Hillary Clinton/Liberal Media Spin Machine ONLY succeeds when they have an enemy to run against. Ken Starr will become the new mascot of the Republican Party. The liberal media will continue exactly where they left off with "the Republican Government Shutdown".

NETANYAHU REVEALS CLINTON DOUBLE CROSS ON POLLARD RELEASE By Shimon Shiffer Translated By Aaron Lerner 23 June 1999 Originally appeared in Hebrew in Yediot Ahronot 18 June 1999 Netanyahu plans in the book he is currently writing to publish several details that will considerably embarrass the president of the United States. In one of the chapters Clinton will earn the title 'International Swindler'. And this is the story. In September '98, Yom Kippur Eve, Clinton and Netanyahu met for a conversation in the White House, during the course of which Netanyahu agreed to attend the conference at Wye Plantation with ...

For fair use Clinton Won His Pseudo-War but Faces Global Battles by Richard Brookhiser Now that President Clinton has won it, will he call Kosovo a war? Let us look at the other winners and losers, all mixed. America. America, leading NATO, forced the Yugoslav Army to withdraw from Kosovo at hardly any cost in lives or even comfort. Two of our soldiers died in a helicopter accident, three were briefly taken prisoner. (Interestingly, the Serbs, who claimed they were the victims of an unjust war, called the Americans criminals, while Washington, which said it was engaged in a conflict, ...

I haven't decided which candidate I will support in 2000 but my number one criteria is the leadership qualities of each candidate. I do know this, I will not support any third party candidate. With all due respect to Pat Buchanan, Bob Smith, and Alan Keyes, it is foolish to consider a third party run. History shows that Democrats stay united while Republicans split their votes among various third parties. The Libertarian Party, and the Reform Party are filled with many fine, well meaning people, however, if they would unite behind the Republican Party, we could insure victory, and accomplish ...

Parents' Suit Seeks End to Race-Based School Plan By BETH DALEY c.1999 The Boston Globe BOSTON, June 21, 1999 Twenty-five years to the day a federal judge ordered Boston to desegregate its public schools - leading to one of the most tumultuous and ugly chapters in the city's history - a group of parents asked a federal court Monday to abandon the last remnants of the plan. Saying four white students were unconstitutionally denied entrance to schools because of their race, the lawsuit asks the court to throw out a decade-old policy that assigns students to schools based on ...

POTOMAC, Md. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain says all U.S. politicians, conservative and liberal alike, have become corrupted by a political system awash in special interest money. The Arizona senator launched the latest round of his crusade to reform the campaign finance system Tuesday night in a lecture at B'nai Tzedek synagogue in a Washington suburb in memory of David Ifshin, a one-time legal counsel to President Clinton who died three years ago. "Those of us who are privileged to hold public office today have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American public life,'' McCain declared. "It is ...

I have been lucky enough to come from a large family and have never had anyone in my family succomb to the horrors of Cancer, but I have had friends and colleagues ravaged. However, if I were to have it, I don't want to know about it. You see people that find out and even though they put up a brave front, you know it is eating them alive and on their minds 24-7. What I don't know won't hurt me, and when it does, I will be going where we are all going at some point.

The United States and European countries must begin rebuilding bomb-ravaged Yugoslavia immediately and not wait for Slobodan Milosevic to be ousted, as President Clinton and NATO leaders are insisting, Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan said Tuesday. "I'm not a foreign aid man," Buchanan said in an interview with The Hawk Eye during a brief presidential campaign swing through southeast Iowa. "But (the Serbs) have gone through hell ... most of them are innocent people. Can you explain to me how the women and kids of Serbia are supposed to overthrow Milosevic? We couldn't overthrow him. What are they supposed to ...

S.African Politician Says Lying Acceptable 4.32 a.m. ET (832 GMT) June 23, 1999 . JOHANNESBURG — 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 ...

Elizabeth Dole appears to be softening her gun-control stance in an effort to expand her appeal beyond Republican women. She was mum on the House impasse on gun control last week and now says, through a spokesman, that she blames the Democrats for failure to pass anything. The former Red Cross president is the only GOP presidential nomination contender to support gun control. She appears to be edging away from that emphasis under the influence of her new campaign adviser, Tony Fabrizio, the conservative strategist who advised her husband's 1996 presidential campaign. GOP analysts speculate that she may be positioning ...

Corruption a ``cancer'' in Bosnia - envoy SARAJEVO, June 22 (Reuters) - Corruption is swallowing up public funds worth hundreds of millions of Bosnian marka (dollars) each year, the international body overseeing the country's peace process said on Tuesday. James Fergusson, a spokesman for the Office of the High Representative (OHR), said corruption was endemic in the Balkan country. ``Tackling it is crucial to the future of this country,'' he told reporters. ``We rely on and appeal to the solidarity of the leaders of Bosnia-Herzegovina to fight this cancer which threatens to destroy the society.'' Corruption could not be defeated ...

We must, regrettably, ready ourselves for the third Kosovan war On Your Way, Morality June 23 1999 OPINION Simon Jenkins London Times So how do you feel, asks an unkindly correspondent, now that you see the torture chambers and killing fields of Kosovo? How now this Hitler of the Balkans? How now the "appeasers"? Was Tony Blair not right to bomb the bastard to pieces? The answer is that I feel exactly as I did at the start. It takes a warped brain not to be sickened by war, especially "civil" war. But it takes a dangerous one to refuse ...

We must, regrettably, ready ourselves for the third Kosovan war On Your Way, Morality June 23 1999 OPINION Simon Jenkins London Times So how do you feel, asks an unkindly correspondent, now that you see the torture chambers and killing fields of Kosovo? How now this Hitler of the Balkans? How now the "appeasers"? Was Tony Blair not right to bomb the bastard to pieces? The answer is that I feel exactly as I did at the start. It takes a warped brain not to be sickened by war, especially "civil" war. But it takes a dangerous one to refuse ...

If you've ever wondered what the words "special education" mean, consider Saundra Lemons. A tall, gangly 19 year-old senior in a Washington D.C. public high school, she is quiet and attentive. Like the vast majority of children in special ed, she's not blind or deaf or confined to a wheelchair; instead, she has had trouble learning to read. If dollars were education, Saundra would be in fine shape. D.C. pours almost a third of its total education budget into the 10 percent of its students who are special ed. In theory--or rather, in wealthy school districts--this money buys kids ...

E.Europeans renew calls to expand NATO post-Kosovo By Daniel Langenkamp BUDAPEST, June 23 (Reuters) - Eastern European and Baltic nations at a Budapest NATO conference this week tried to make political capital out of the bombing campaign against Yugoslavia by calling for a rapid new round of NATO enlargement. Nations from Estonia to Ukraine which were left out of the first round of NATO expansion said the role in the Yugoslav campaign of new and aspiring NATO members showed the value of an expanded alliance in a world where the Cold War had given way to smaller ethnic rivalries. ``In ...

Ran across this on my creation mail list this morning and thought some people might want to comment. With Forrest Mims, your tax dollars are not at work! :-) San Antonio ExpressNews, June 21, 1999, Monday, METRO / SOUTH TEXAS; Pg. 9A HEADLINE: Seguin man proves small science still works BYLINE: Nicole Foy; ExpressNews Staff Writer SEGUIN It's midmorning, and Forrest Mims is standing in the middle of a grassy field, holding a metal wand with a copper penny affixed to the end. He carefully lifts the wand which looks a lot like a car antenna and positions it just ...

U.S. Official To Discuss MIAs .c The Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A U.S. Defense Department official arrived Wednesday on a regional trip to energize efforts to account for American servicemen missing in action from the Vietnam War era. Robert Jones, deputy assistant secretary of defense for POW/missing person affairs, said at the Phnom Penh airport that he will push during his three-nation tour for a regional conference to coordinate the search for remains of MIAs and prisoners of war. If the United States can secure the support of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, the conference is expected to ...

Democrats try to exploit contrasts between presidential hopeful and GOP's harder-edged agenda. WASHINGTON--Many congressional Republicans are heading into next year's election campaigns with high hopes that their presidential front-runner, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, will redefine their party image with his emphasis on "compassionate conservatism" and bipartisanship. At the same time, however, many of these same Republicans are pursuing a legislative agenda--headlined by measures slashing domestic spending and declaring war on popular culture--that reflects a harder-edged brand of conservatism. And their most prominent leader, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas), is one of the most polarizing figures in the Capitol. ...

Kosovo Albanian children play at eliminating Serbs By Matt Spetalnick PRISTINA, June 23 (Reuters) - If not for the burned-out homes littering their neighbourhood, the children frolicking outside the Kosovo Liberation Army's hilltop headquarters might seem like any others at play on a sunlit morning. But anyone watching closely can't help but realise this is no ordinary child's play. It's a game with uniquely Balkan rules. ``We're hunting for Serbs,'' a 10-year-old ethnic Albanian girl with a watergun sings out as she leads her squadron past Kalashnikov-bearing rebel guards on the outskirts of the provincial capital Pristina. Each child has ...