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Phantom Insurance Empire Was Built on Trail of Aliases On April 28, with the sun setting outside their elegant Hilton Hotel conference suite in downtown Jackson, Miss., the key figures in what was, on paper, a vast philanthropic and insurance empire gathered together for the first and last time. Those present included two Tennesseans who managed the Franklin American Corp., operator of a dozen insurance companies in five states. Also attending, after a long flight from Rome, were two elderly Catholic priests representing the charitiable foundation which owned the Franklin company. The guest of honor, and the man who controlled ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLES 1. Hack's Column - What Got The Roman Empire Is About To Get Us 2. Mac Notes 3. Special Request 4. From The Field: Army Admits Apaches Were Not Ready For Kosovo 5. SAS Leader PART III 6. Money's Tight Troops ARTICLE 1 -- WHAT GOT THE ROMAN EMPIRE IS ABOUT TO GET US By David H. Hackworth 22 June 1999 North Korea, our most irrational, unpredictable and dangerous enemy, with whom we've been in an on-again, off-again shootout for 54 years, is back on the warpath. If the million-man North Korean army attacks, our 37,000 ...

I don't know if this has been posted. I've read it a few times myself and again applaud Sen. Inhofe! Mr. INHOFE: Mr. President, I ask that you listen again. I am going to pick up on the incredible but true story of the Clinton administration's betrayal of national security and the scandalous coverup that continues as we speak. In doing so, I fully realize that the majority of Americans will not believe me. They have continued to believe our President even after he has demonstrated over and over that he has no regard for the truth. Though you would ...

South Korean President Kim Dae-jung said on Friday the United States, Japan and South Korea's top priority was to prevent North Korea from testing another missile, which he said would seriously damage relations. ``The top priority of the three nations is to firmly persuade and pressure North Korea to stop a missile launch,'' Kim told local reporters at a monthly news conference. ``We are making the hardest efforts. But if missile is launched, I believe the relations between North Korea and the three countries would be seriously damaged,'' he said. North Korea test-fired a long-range rocket that soared over ...

Police have arrested 28 suspects and seized 54kg of heroin in a massive operation against a major international drugs ring operating out of the Canadian port of Vancouver. The gang had been shipping heroin from southeast Asia to markets in Canada and the United States, in an operation so large that it could manipulate drug prices across North America at will. "When you start dealing with heroin at the multikilogram level, you are dealing with the top echelon of heroin movement throughout the world," said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Patrick Convey. The gang also dealt in extortion and credit ...

Can Freepers recommend the best search engine/url to find what was said by our champions such as Inhofe, Burton etc. I hear them say amazing things on TV that I do not see in newsprint anywhere. Many good floor and one minute speeches etc. What is an 'easy' place to search? I go to some and it seems if you don't have the proposal #'s etc you could spend a day there. I do go to their sites to see what they have, but many are up to a month behind, except Sen. Inhofe. I just want to find my ...

CHICAGO – Francis Cardinal George is expected to lead nearly 900 people in a prayerful protest outside a Humboldt Park abortion clinic on Saturday. Following the dedication of the newly-renovated St. Sylvester’s Church, Cardinal George will lead a procession to a Fullerton Avenue clinic that performs abortions. There, he will lead a silent prayer vigil. “We believe prayer can help change people’s lives, open up new opportunities and new ways of thinking about problems, and help people choose life,” said Nora O’Callaghan, a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Respect Life office. The cardinal’s appearance will mark the first time ...

Iraq will send a senior official to Moscow to soften the impact of its threat to cancel an oil deal with Russia's largest petroleum company, Oil Ministry officials said Thursday. Oil Minister Amer Mohammed Rashid told Iraq's parliament Monday that he had given Lukoil, the Russian company, and a Chinese state firm ''a few weeks'' to begin developing the oil fields they were contracted to exploit in 1997. The threats seem to have angered the Russian government, which has a controlling stake in Lukoil and is a major proponent of the drive in the U.N. Security Council to lift ...

Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, June 25, 1999; Page A7 Texas Gov. George W. Bush has made significant inroads among women and Hispanic voters against Vice President Gore and threatens to neutralize the Democratic Party's traditional advantage on such key issues as education and protecting the middle class, according to a bipartisan poll released yesterday. As in other recent polls, Bush holds a clear lead over Gore in a hypothetical test of strength between the front-runners for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations. But the Battleground 2000 poll underscored the challenges Gore faces as he seeks to succeed President Clinton, ...

Legacy cleansingBy Helle BeringTHE WASHINGTON TIMES few weeks back, President Clinton received a rather astonishing accolade from "some presidential aides and friends" on the front page of The Washington Post. In terms that must have made Winston Churchill spin in his grave -- and the rest of us swallow hard -- the Kosovo campaign was described as Bill Clinton's "finest hour." Mr. Clinton, according to the article, has been nursing a lifelong sense of disappointment -- to the point of feeling "almost cheated" -- that "when it was his turn he didn't have a chance to be part of a ...

A top military official said Tuesday that Russia had launched the biggest domestic military exercises of their kind since 1985 but these were not a show of force connected with the Yugoslavia crisis. Colonel-General Yuri Baluyevsky, first deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, said the exercises were significant in involving top military officials across the entire territory of European Russia. "All forces of five military districts from the Black Sea to the Arctic White Sea are involved now in unprecedented military exercises code named Zapad (West) 1999," he told a news conference. "They are so-called top staff level exercises ...

Impeachment of Clinton may aid GOP after allBy Ralph Z. HallowTHE WASHINGTON TIMESepublicans actually helped their image with voters -- and boosted their election prospects in the 2000 election -- by impeaching President Clinton, a leading Democratic pollster said Thursday.     At the same time, Democrats are suffering from a delayed voter disgust with Mr. Clinton's scandals that has improved GOP chances for the presidency and Congress in next year's elections, according to Democratic pollster Celinda Lake.     As a result of the "time-release" change in attitude among voters, moral values have become the dominant issue for voters and could spell defeat for ...

God and Gore How far can Gore go with his emphasis on religion? By Bob Jones The audience was celebratory, but the speaker was somber. Addressing 2,400 graduating seniors at the University of New Hampshire, the presidential candidate spoke darkly of things such as murder, evil, and sin. "In my faith tradition, I am drawn to the story of the first murder," the speaker said, comparing the Columbine High School killers to Cain, whose pent-up rage against not being accepted led him to kill his brother. Quoting from Genesis, the candidate reminded the audience of God's response to Cain: ...

KEEPING THE PEACE AMID DEADLY HATREDS By NILES LATHEM GLOGOVZE, Kosovo STAFF Sgt. Darrin Conney and his small reconnaissance squad of the British Royal Artillery have had their hands full keeping the peace in this small patch of nowhere. His unit, which operates a Phoenix unmanned aircraft in a tiny hamlet off the main highway in south central Kosovo, is set up in tractor sheds across from a mixed enclave. On one side is a group of Serbian homes where the men are all members of local paramilitary units that terrorize their Albanian neighbors. Many Albanian families are returning, ...

Mike Malloy Speaks Out, Peace In Our Time, June 1999 Serbia is being used as a testing ground, a proving ground, a living laboratory wherein all sorts of experiments are being conducted simultaneously. NATO knows - is acutely aware - that the whole world is watching. The first experiment is an attempt to determine whether or not NATO has the audacity, the will and the cohesion to become a global police force; a transnational enforcer. A police force that will - without oversight or restraint - both determine and enforce the laws of neo-liberal, western-style capitalism and the rules necessary ...

TIPPER CAN DO & MOMMY, TOO, FOR GORE By BRIAN BLOMQUIST WASHINGTON - Al Gore has a special campaign adviser to fix him up with women. Democratic consultant Celinda Lake said yesterday she's trying to reverse Gore's weak political support among women, advising him to trot out his wife, Tipper, and to talk more about Mom. Gore, the Democratic front-runner for president, has a persistent problem at attracting women voters, unlike President Clinton, who's had steady support from women even through the Sexgate scandal. Lake said she was "startled" to see Gore trailing among women voters to Texas Gov. ...

"Cowardly Bill" (To be sung to Garth Brooks' "Cowboy Bill") He told a good story...and us Lib'rals listened... 'Bout his road trip to Moscow...and the joy he found there! And the Left believed him...and when he would finish... We'd ask Ol' Slick Willie...to fool us again! You could almost hear...those Socialists crowin'... Geraldo a'kissin' the Pres-i-dent's rear! You could smell the "love juice"...from the cee-gah Bill's smokin'... As he sat there and he painted those nude Lewinsky's! Still, the Right-Wing would tell us... "Voters, keep your distance...Bill Clinton's just tellin' you lies!" But to all of us Libs...Cowardly Bill was ...

UPSTATERS BUGGED AS HILLARY AIDE 'FLIES' IN THE FACE OF GOOD SENSE By GREGG BIRNBAUM ALBANY - Angry Adirondack residents may be biting a lot worse than the region's notorious black flies do if First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton decides to visit the popular tourist area. Locals are buzzing mad at a comment by an unnamed adviser to Clinton - that it would be a bad idea for the First Lady to vacation in the "fly-infested Adirondack Park" this summer. Newcomb town supervisor George Canon, a Republican, fumed, "She wouldn't have to worry. Our flies won't bite her because ...

A CLASM ON THE COURT This week's end-of-term rulings handed down by the Supreme Court reveal an ideological divide on the bench that is something on the order of an unbridgable chasm. The court's conservative Gang of Five - Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy- prevailed on a number of key issues since last October, and the country will only be the better because of it. But the closeness of many of the votes is worrisome. Three decisions handed down Wednesday - and decided on 5-4 margins - strongly ...

House Votes on Property Seizures By CASSANDRA BURRELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Police would have a tougher time seizing private property with suspected links to crime under a bill the House passed Thursday. House members voted 375-48 to set new rules for how the federal government seizes houses, cars, boats, cash and securities. Police have used civil asset forfeiture for such things as shutting down drug houses quickly by taking possession of them or hitting drug traffickers in the wallet even before charges are filed. During an afternoon of debate, both Democrats and Republicans criticized current federal laws ...