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The Supreme Court, in a series of far-reaching decisions, reaffirms trend of moving authority from Washington. The conservative wing of the US Supreme Court has taken another major step in reordering the power balance between the states and federal government. And it has demonstrated its resolve to pursue an aggressive federalist agenda that seeks to rein in the power of the national government when, in the majority's view, it impermissibly treads on state sovereignty. The action came in decisions rendered in three cases on Wednesday - two involving a lawsuit by a New Jersey company against a Florida tuition ...

Khrushchev's Son Passes U.S. Test By TERRENCE PETTY .c The Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Sergei Khrushchev breezed through the U.S. citizenship test today, and next month will swear loyalty to a country and way of life that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev - his father - promised to bury. ``We both passed,'' Khrushchev said with a smile as he and his wife left the Providence office of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. ``Our heart is here. We will be good citizens,'' said the 63-year-old Khrushchev, who looks much like his deceased dad. Khrushchev missed one out of 20 ...

Bush Seeking Help for Iowa Poll By RON FOURNIER .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush is asking business lobbyists to help him win the Iowa straw poll in August, according to an internal memo criticized by his GOP rivals. The memo suggests that the Texas governor is making an all-out push to win the early test of campaign strength in Ames, Iowa, and it underscores that Bush brings enormous political resources to the fight. A self-styled political outsider, Bush is turning to Washington's lobbying elite for help to cement his front-runner status. In ...

Gore On California Fund-Raising Trip By SCOTT LINDLAW .c The Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) - Al Gore made a final dash today for donor dollars in California before a month's end deadline to report fund-raising totals, hoping a hefty campaign treasury will show his strength as a candidate. The Democratic vice president picked up $125,000 at his first stop in the San Diego community of La Jolla, deep in Republican territory. Aides said they were still working on a total dollar figure for the fund-raising swing this week. Gore's fund-raising flurry began in Denver Tuesday and accelerated in California, ...

Street rioting against NATO terror bombing in Yugoslavia has been carefully kept off the pages of the American newspapers and ignored by the talking heads of television and radio. GERMANY: Now, some cracks are appearing in Socialist Germany's participation in the aggression against Yugoslavia. The Green Alliance which keeps Schroeder in power, drew 318 votes for a resolution for an immediate end of the bombing in Yugoslavia. At the meeting, Schroeder was hit by a small can of paint which injured one of his eardrums and splattered his suit and tie. Although the majority of delegates voted 444-318 to continue ...

To all American Patriots, Now is the time for you to come to the aid of five young Marines who are being persecuted because they refused to be injected with the experimental Anthrax vaccine. Read about them in these two CNN articles. Marine gets 30 days in jail, bad conduct discharge for refusing anthrax vaccine Five Marines who refused anthrax vaccine plead innocent Read these articles from Captain Joyce Riley vonKleist's web site. Anthrax Vaccine is it Safe and Effective? Anthrax Vaccine Facts Read about vaccines on this web site Chris Gerner's Amerikan Exposé The young Marines are Jason ...

NEW DELHI: Going by the rhetoric on both sides, India and Pakistan appear one step closer to war. Stung by its isolation in the international community, Pakistan on Tuesday mounted a fresh diplomatic putsch even while its army belted out a stiff warning to India. The Nawaz Sharif government has come under fire at home for the G-8 statement which clearly took into account the Indian position in Kargil. Reports from Pakistan suggest extraordinary security arrangements in the wake of the Pakistan foreign ministry accusing India of being on the ``war-path'' and warning that any ``misadventure'' across the LoC would ...

Nobody talked about "Dr.B." Dr. Robert R. Beckwith was a professor emeritus of United States history, a published author, and a lifelong Democrat. He was a decorated veteran of World War II who worked with Eleanor Roosevelt in support of the United Nations. He was an instrumental part of two organizations, Operation Crossroads Africa and Teachers for East Africa, that President Kennedy identified as prototypes for the Peace Corps. To say that Dr.B. was a teacher, a professor of history, is to say too little. He was an observer of history, the kind of mentor with whom former students kept ...

BARRE, N.Y. (AP) - Orleans County Sheriff's Lt. Thomas Golisano isn't surprised any longer by telephone calls meant for millionaire businessman B. Thomas Golisano, but having President Clinton on the other end of the line can be a shocker. B. Thomas Golisano of Rochester was the unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1994 and 1998 of the increasingly influential New York Independence Party. The other Golisano told the Batavia Daily News for its Wednesday editions that the call from the White House came several weeks ago. He initially figured it was a joke. Then the operator told him to hold for ...

In a rare public conflict between Washington and the World Bank, Treasury Secretary-designate Lawrence Summers said Tuesday that the United States would vote against a loan to China that would resettle poor Chinese farmers to land that Tibetans claim. Despite the Clinton administration's objections, World Bank officials said they expect that the loan will be approved at the bank's board meeting Thursday. If the United States opposes the loan, as Summers indicated it would during his confirmation hearing Tuesday, it probably would further strain relations with Beijing. China has said that U.S. efforts to block the loan constitute an interference ...

2 DEM BIGS WANT NUKES YANKED OUT OF ENERGY By BRIAN BLOMQUIST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON - The drive to shake up and refashion the Energy Department, a favorite hunting ground for Chinese spies, picked up steam yesterday and now appears inevitable. Two influential Democrats, Sens. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, endorsed a plan to strip the nuclear-weapons program from the rest of the Energy Department. "We need to change the law and reorganize the agency," Kerrey said. Lieberman said he was convinced that "fundamental change is critically needed at the labs" after reading the findings of ...

Mrs. Clinton will set up panel for Senate July 7 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will announce on July 7 the creation of a political exploratory committee, her first formal step toward a run for the U.S. Senate, sources close to her said Wednesday. The sources said Mrs. Clinton will make the announcement at the upstate New York farm of retiring Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whom she hopes to succeed.

For education & discussion only. CHICAGO (AP) — The American Medical Association voted today to back the formation of a national union of doctors to give the profession more leverage with managed-care companies. ``My profession is being crushed under the rocks of rules and regulations, government influence, HMOs,'' said Dr. Jack L. Summers of Akron, Ohio. ``I need help to fight back.'' The vote by the 494-member House of Delegates, the AMA's policy-making body, came after almost two hours of impassioned debate. The national union would support the formation of local bargaining units for the minority of doctors who ...

Europe To Help Rebuild Kosovo By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN .c The Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union said today it will fund efforts to undermine Slobodan Milosevic's rule and help Yugoslavia recover from bombing damage once he's out of power. ``We will not be able to conclude agreements with Milosevic, or his government,'' EU Commissioner Hans van den Broek said. ``We cannot do anything that would reinforce Milosevic's regime.'' The EU will spend $500-$700 million over three years and hopes to raise an equal amount at two donor conferences later this year and from the World Bank, ...

Tonight's local Washington news reported that Alexandria, VA police were called to Rep. Jim Moran's (D-Va.) to answer a domestic abuse complaint. The story was thin with details, except to report that no police report was filed. Moran's office issued a statement saying that he and his wife had an argument and the case is personal and is closed.

Can the ANC's "Spear of the Nation" Guide the KLA to "Success?" In 1991-92 I spent 18 months living in South Africa, arriving there a month after President F.W. DeKlerk and his Naionalist party repealed the last apartheid restriction. DeKlerk, who was elected in 1989, lifted the bans on the African National Congress, the South African Communist party, and the Pan-African Congress in 1990. During those months I watched, and in fact interacted with, 23 political parties, composed of an extraordinary mixtures of races, ethnicities, tribal customs, African and European languages. They were having marathon meetings on the subject ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Russians fought in Kosovo alongside Serb forces, and their role will be part of an international war crimes investigation, the Pentagon's spokesman said Tuesday. ``We certainly know that Russians participated. Russian volunteers, mercenaries, we believe, did participate with paramilitary and other Serb forces,'' Kenneth Bacon said. He had been asked to comment on a report in Newsday that dozens of Russian volunteers had participated in the killing of hundreds of ethnic Albanians and the destruction of towns and villages around Prizren in southern Kosovo. ``I do not have verification that there were units or groups of the ...

Oswald's Russian Files To Be Opened By KAREN GULLO .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Intelligence and defense agencies will review KGB files on Lee Harvey Oswald that may detail Russia's own investigation of Oswald's role in the assassination of President Kennedy. Officials said today there is no estimate when the public might see the material. The uncertainty over timely access to the information troubles some advocates of public access to government documents. The documents - a surprise gift from Boris Yeltsin to President Clinton - will first be reviewed for material sensitive to national security concerns, while also ...

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