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No 'Credible Evidence' Of KLA Drugrunning - U.S. 4.34 p.m. ET (2035 GMT) June 23, 1999 WASHINGTON — The United States has no credible evidence the Kosovo Liberation Army engaged in drug trafficking to support its armed struggle against Serbia, State Department spokesman James Rubin said Wednesday. "The U.S. government has never identified credible evidence of these drugrunning charges,'' he told reporters. "We've seen reports in newspapers and elsewhere,'' Rubin said. But although American intelligence agencies have looked into the issue, "we have not never developed credible evidence of our own,'' he said. Charges that the KLA — outgunned and ...

Here is the text of an email response from Sen. Lautenberg's office to me in response to an outraged but moderated email I sent him regarding Clinton's illegal war in Kosovo.My response follows. ======================================================== Frank Lautenberg wrote: Thank you for contacting me. I appreciate knowing of your concerns about the situation in Kosovo. President Clinton's leadership and NATO's firm resolve have brought Milosevic's reign of terror in Kosovo to an end. The last of some 40,000 Yugoslav and Serbian forces have left Kosovo, formally ending the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia. NATO had suspended bombing on June 10 as the ...

Prom night is a big event at Santa Monica High School. It is an occasion for hundreds of the world's most pop-culturally attuned teenagers to dress up like boiled sweets, climb into limousines, dance on a rented Sony Pictures soundstage, climb back into their limousines, drive to expensive hotels and — no feigned surprise, please — lose their virginity. "A lot of people lose their virginity on prom night," says Brandon Goddard, 17, as if he were talking about mobile phones. "The hotel rooms are just the perfect opportunity." You can hardly blame them for trying. Those in the school's ...

Dan Quayle Expands Attack on Values By WILL LESTER .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Vice President Dan Quayle is expanding his values attack on prime-time TV's Murphy Brown to include an entire decade - the 1960s - and its ``free drugs, free love, free lunch and freedom from responsibility.'' Although the 52-year-old Quayle is part of that generation, he casts himself as the ``standard bearer'' for those of all ages who embrace the values of the World War II generation. The Republican presidential candidate attacks the liberal values of the 1960s and an ``opinion elite'' of baby ...

Hatch Preparing for 2000 Run By DAVID ESPO .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who says it probably would take a miracle for him to win the White House, intends to seek re-election to Congress at the same time he makes a late entrance into the Republican presidential campaign. One day after saying he will join the GOP race dominated by Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Hatch also announced the hiring of his first two aides in New Hampshire. Both men will resign their jobs with the state GOP to join Hatch's first-in-the nation primary ...

Dissecting Columbine's Cult of the Athlete In Search for Answers, Community Examines One Source of Killers' Rage By Lorraine Adams and Dale Russakoff Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, June 12, 1999; Page A01 LITTLETON, Colo.—The state wrestling champ was regularly permitted to park his $100,000 Hummer all day in a 15-minute space. A football player was allowed to tease a girl about her breasts in class without fear of retribution by his teacher, also the boy's coach. The sports trophies were showcased in the front hall -- the artwork, down a back corridor. Columbine High School is a culture where ...

Published in The Orlando Sentinel on June 23, 1999. Gov. Jeb Bush predicts great things ahead for Florida's public schools -- thanks to the education-reform package he signed into law this week. Mr. Bush isn't the first politician to say he has found the magic cure to public education's problems, and he won't be the last. The problems facing public schools are complex and daunting enough to keep political campaigns flush with promises for decades. Mr. Bush, though, is one of the few politicians who promise to fix public schools by taking money away from them and giving it ...

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has rejected suggestions he bolt his party and seek the White House nomination of Ross Perot's Reform Party, a top aide said Wednesday. "Pat is a Republican — in name and in heart,'' declared Bay Buchanan, the candidate's sister and senior adviser, saying her conservative brother has no plans to leave the party. "We talked about it (making a run at the Reform Party nomination) but he never seriously considered it,'' she insisted. The Washington Post reported Sunday that Buchanan, frustrated by the Republican Party's embrace of presidential front-runner George W. Bush, was ...

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Giuliani's missteps By Thomas Oliphant, Globe Columnist, 06/22/99 NEW YORK-The person who has bought into the crackpot notion that next year's Senate race here is some grand national crusade is not Hillary Rodham Clinton. It's Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose second-term egomania continues to obscure his first-term problem-solving to such an extent that he has created a small opening for a potentially serious Republican primary. Giuliani publicly anticipates some magical Ken Starr report that may turn out to be Godot; he screams ''carpetbagger'' to the wind and joins in the ''why is she doing this?'' psychobabble. Little things - education, health ...

American Medical Association Votes to Form Trade Union 3.55 p.m. ET (1955 GMT) June 23, 1999 By Brenda C. Coleman CHICAGO — The nation's largest doctors' group voted today to help form a national union to help physicians negotiate with managed-care companies. The labor organization would support the formation of local bargaining units as an option both for the minority of physicians who are employees of managed-care companies and for self-employed doctors who are under contract to such companies. The vote by the American Medical Association's 494-member House of Delegates overrode objections from some doctors who said they want to ...

TURNER GETS BUFFALOED By PAUL THARP Ted Turner is no longer home alone on the range where his buffalo roam. Unhappy with America's weak appetite for bison burgers and steaks, Turner is turning over his buffalo herds to major meat packers, who will be better able to promote the health benefits of the low-fat meat. The billionaire vice chairman of Time Warner founded his buffalo operation, U.S. Bison Co. L.LC, several years ago, and has watched its herds grow to 15,000 head. His buffalo graze on his ranches in ranches in Montana, Nebraska and New Mexico. But Turner, an avid ...

Wednesday, June 23, 1999 Hundreds of millions of dollars have been allocated to federal agencies to drive their efforts to swat the millennium bug. A recent congressional audit reveals that no one is really certain where the money went. Where Has All The Money Gone? Congressional auditors recently made a shocking discovery: some federal agencies receiving billions of dollars worth of emergency funding to help them fix Year 2000 computer problems have lost track of how they spent the money. According to a report issued by the U.S. General Accounting Office, only seven out of the 24 largest federal ...

An 11-year-old boy, riding his bicycle and wearing his bike helmet, suddenly crashes the bike and flips over its handlebars, landing headfirst on the pavement. His helmet prevents any serious head injuries.A four-year-old girl is playing near her friends’ grandparents’ backyard pool, when the other children and adults go inside. Alone, she decides to go for a swim in the deep end but can’t get out. An older child notices the four-year-old is missing, jumps in and pulls her to safety. A 13-year-old boy, who always uses his seat belt while in an automobile, is in a serious crash while ...

The Bureaucratic Imperative   © 1999 By David O'Daniel Eddy June 23, 1999   This quote from a recent Wall Street Journal article (Friday, June 18, 1999, page A22) by reporter John Fialka pretty much sums up what I see regarding so-called Y2K progress: "Don't tell me the truth. Tell me what I want to hear." Fialka's article is about the frustrating experience of a scientist at Los Alamos laboratories who was trying to get the bureaucrats to listen to his concerns about pilfering of American nuclear weapons research by the Chinese. "Don't tell me the truth...Tell me what ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- State governments cannot be sued against their will in state courts by people seeking to enforce some federal right, the Supreme Court said today in a major decision on states' rights. By a 5-4 vote, the justices killed a state court lawsuit by dozens of state probation officers seeking to enforce a federal labor law and collect overtime pay from Maine. The court ruled that the Constitution's ``structure and history'' shields states not only from being sued in federal courts, but also makes them immune from individuals' state court lawsuits seeking to enforce a federal right. ...

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) -- Three boys were arrested Tuesday for allegedly plotting a school shooting rampage similar to the one in Littleton, Colo. The boys -- two 13-year-olds and one 12-year-old -- planned to detonate bombs and shoot teachers and fellow students at Paradise Intermediate School, police said. Investigators said they searched the boys' homes and found a "hit list" and evidence that the attack was to have occurred on Feb. 2, 2002. Police had no motive, but said the suspects made their plans after watching TV news reports about the Colorado massacre two months ago. The boys said ...

Harold Ickes appeared several times before the "Monica" grand jury. Of course, prior to that he also testified in regard to multiple other Clinton scandals. Ickes comes across in his testimony as superficially cooperative, but very forgetful ("I don't recall," blah, blah, blah). He also took opportunites to jab his inquisitors and Larry Klayman with smart a** answers. Witness the following exchanges found from page 1584 to 1597:"Q: Yes, I believe a Grand Juror over here had a question.GRAND JUROR: Just for clarification, Mr. Klayman is with the Independent Counsel's Office?Q: No, no. For clarification, he's not.GRAND JUROR: Who is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Prosecutor Kenneth Starr has named Hillary Rodham Clinton as a possible witness in the upcoming trial of her former Arkansas law partner, Webster Hubbell, legal sources said today. Starr submitted Mrs. Clinton's name as one of 63 possible witnesses for Hubbell's trial, now scheduled for August. Mrs. Clinton is currently considering a race for the Senate from New York. Starr notified Hubbell's legal team that he considered Mrs. Clinton as a possible witness on a list in April. Hubbell's lawyers countered with a list of 17 possible defense witnesses, and both lists were placed under seal, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Prosecutor Kenneth Starr has named Hillary Rodham Clinton as a possible witness in the upcoming trial of her former Arkansas law partner, Webster Hubbell, legal sources said today. Starr submitted Mrs. Clinton's name as one of 63 possible witnesses for Hubbell's trial, now scheduled for August. Mrs. Clinton is currently considering a race for the Senate from New York. Starr notified Hubbell's legal team that he considered Mrs. Clinton as a possible witness on a list in April. Hubbell's lawyers countered with a list of 17 possible defense witnesses, and both lists were placed under seal, ...