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In the Grip of a Liar By Alan Caruba CNS Commentary from the National Anxiety Center 25 June, 1999 If ever there was a cause for anxiety, it has to be the frightening fact that the office of the President of the United States is now widely acknowledged as occupied by a pathological liar. I do not recall a time when major figures in the nation's press have repeatedly called a President a liar since the days of Watergate when Richard M. Nixon underwent the rigors of an investigation which led to his impending impeachment and his resignation to avoid ...

NATO is struggling to restore order in Kosovo, where U.S. Marines came under fire for a second time in three days and ethnic Albanians torched and looted Serb homes in revenge attacks. Meanwhile, Russia planned to fly about 18 technical personnel to Pristina's airport today in advance of Russian paratroopers expected to join the NATO-led force. It would be the first flight into the Kosovo capital since 200 Russian troops seized the airport June 12 - beating NATO into the province by hours and forcing protracted negotiations on Russia's role in the peacekeeping mission. The Russians will be joining ...

Dole Picks Former Reagan Officials .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Elizabeth Dole is turning to fellow officials from the Ronald Reagan years to advise her on policy. Dole on Friday named former United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick as her principal foreign policy adviser as she seeks the GOP nomination and James H. Burnley IV, former transportation secretary, as her main domestic adviser. Burnley was Mrs. Dole's deputy when she was transportation secretary, then succeeded her in the last few years of Reagan's presidency. ``I have known and worked with both Jeane and Jim for many ...

Beijing and Moscow have agreed to pool resources in the development of military-related high technology. The unpublicised accord was finalised while the Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission, General Zhang Wannian, was in Moscow this month. Diplomatic sources in Beijing said yesterday that while the leadership had turned down Moscow's invitation for forming a military alliance, the joint development of weapons technology was a big step forward in defence ties. "Both countries will co-ordinate development of a number of weapons systems," a source said. "Beijing will provide most of the funds and Moscow the bulk of the expertise, including ...

Last week, I watched the long lines of Yugoslav army (VJ) vehicles pulling out from Kosovo, especially in the area from Pristina airport and Kosovo Polje, the so-called cradle of Serb civilisation. I counted over 50 main battle tanks, including at least six of the latest M84A (T-72G) main battle tanks. All had all been in hiding. Within 24 hours of the NATO land forces entry into Kosovo, the VJ began moving their carefully hidden armour - tanks, armoured personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery and bridging units - from cover. In the village of Magura, T-55A main battle tanks clanked ...

No cooperation with current Yugoslav gov't: KLA .c Kyodo News Service PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, June 26 (Kyodo) - By: Hitoshi Oikawa Hashim Thaqi, head of the Kosovo Liberation Army's (KLA) political bureau, says he has no intention to cooperate with the current Yugoslav administration in establishing an autonomous government in the Serbian province. ''Not only Kosovar Albanians but the international community, similarly, cannot cooperate with the current government of (President Slobodan) Milosevic,'' Thaqi told Kyodo News in a recent exclusive interview in Pristina. Thaqi, who also serves as prime minister of a provisional Kosovar government established in exile in April, said ...

Hired Guns' Pangs of Conscience By Bill McAllister Saturday, June 26, 1999; Page A03 Ah, the problems of the hired guns. A survey of political consultants released this week shows that a majority of them acknowledge they are sorry about some of the candidates they helped elect. James A. Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, said the survey of 505 campaign consultants underscores the growing "professionalism" of the political trade. Consultants are talking pretty much the way lawyers do about their guilty clients. And that, he figures, is a healthy development. The primary reason that ...

The head of the U.S. Energy Department's weapons programme, Victor Reis, has submitted his resignation to the White House, becoming the first official to step down in the wake of Chinese nuclear spying charges, The Washington Post said on Saturday. Reis stepped down over a disagreement with Energy Secretary Bill Richardson on how to improve security and streamline management at government laboratories and other facilities that maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal, the Post reported, citing unnamed officials. Richardson opposed the approach supported by Reis to create a semi-autonomous nuclear agency, the Post reported. Reis himself declined to comment on ...

Bush Enjoys A Brotherly Boost From Florida Tour Siblings Trade Accolades During Fund-Raising Trip By Sue Anne Pressley Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 26, 1999; Page A03 TAMPA, June 25—Republican presidential hopeful and Texas Gov. George W. Bush blitzed through a fund-raising tour of Florida today with the man he repeatedly called "my little brother"--Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. "It helps to have friends in high places," said George W., who turns 53 next month and is almost seven years older than Jeb, 46. "I'm really proud of my little brother's performance as governor of Florida." It was a family ...

WASHINGTON IN BRIEF Compiled from reports by staff writers Bill Miller and Walter Pincus, Reuters, the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times Saturday, June 26, 1999; Page A04 Barr Suit Claims White House Used FBI Files to Smear Foes Rep. Robert L. Barr Jr. (R-Ga.), a leading critic of President Clinton, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday accusing the White House of using FBI files and other information about political foes to conduct smear campaigns. The suit contends that the White House obtained FBI and other secret files on Barr and then leaked them last year as part of an ...

Fired On, Marines Kill Gunman in Kosovo Overall Violence Begins to Subside By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, June 26, 1999; Page A17 PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, June 25—One or more gunmen attacked a group of U.S. Marines at their headquarters in the southeastern Kosovo city of Gnjilane this evening, and the Marines shot and killed a presumed assailant on a sidewalk outside, according to U.S. military officials. The incident was the second this week in which Marines in Kosovo have come under attack. In an assault on a Marine checkpoint on Monday, one Serb was killed and another ...

Our Own Little Kosovo By Colbert I. King Saturday, June 26, 1999; Page A21 East Capitol Dwellings, where grandmother Helen Foster-El was shot in the back while shielding neighborhood kids from gunfire, is the city's largest public housing project. It is also the nation's capital's own little Kosovo. The children of Kosovo have lived through a nightmare. But the past year hasn't been exactly a barrel of laughs for East Capitol Dwellings' more than 900 children, either. Not only have they seen a courageous woman tragically gunned down while trying to do the right thing. Three other people have been ...

Attention All Single Male FReepers! Announcing the new ANN COULTER dating service. This service is being initiated in response to the flurry of interest of late in the dating habits (or lack thereof) of Ann Coulter. Single male Freepers are encouraged to leave a BRIEF description of themselves, including all relavent info, along with e-mail addresses. Ann is invited to scroll through the listings, and to respond to any posts which interest her privately. I hope this helps

WILL THE IRA KILL THE PEACE? When the people of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic voted for the Good Friday peace accords last May, we suggested that cautious optimism would be appropriate. In fact, optimism was in order: After three decades of violent conflict and more than 3,000 deaths, peace seemed to be in the offing. But caution was wise as well: There were no guarantees that the warring parties would would turn in ("decommission") their weapons. And, indeed, the Irish Republican Army has not. This puts the peace at serious risk. When the deal was crafted, the ...

HOLLOWING OUT THE MILITARY Mayor Giuliani, a likely candidate for federal office, spoke out on an issue of substantial national import last week - and got his knuckles soundly rapped by the White House. Giuliani told a breakfast for Holy Cross College alumni what anybody who's been paying even minimal attention to the subject has known for years: to wit, that the Clinton administration has permitted, if not encouraged, a demonstrable decline in American military strength. Interestingly, the White House didn't really disagree with the substance of the mayor's remarks. Spokesman Jake Siewert termed them "inaccurate" - Clintonese for ...

TERROR FEAR FORCES STATE DEPT. TO SHUT SIX EMBASSIES IN AFRICA By MARILYN RAUBER WASHINGTON - Six U.S. embassies in Africa were shut down yesterday - and others around the world were put on alert - after word that terrorist Osama bin Laden wasplanning another attack. The State Department said embassies in Togo, Madagascar, Liberia, Namibia, Senegal and Gambia would be closed at least through the weekend, and warned Americans in those countries to "exercise caution." "We are not going to let these cowardly terrorists, who kill innocent people, achieve their objectives," said State Department spokesman James Rubin. Bin ...

NATO's Most Lethal Airstrike Ended a Battle, Perhaps a War In Mid-Struggle With Rebels, Serbs Took Decisive Hit By John Ward Anderson Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, June 26, 1999; Page A01 ROMAJA, Yugoslavia, June 25—Demir Qenaj had been behind enemy lines for 12 days on one of the war's most dangerous assignments. A member of the Kosovo Albanian rebels' special forces unit, his mission was to infiltrate Serb-held territory here on Mount Pastrik, find their encampments and artillery batteries and secretly direct guerrilla mortar fire onto those positions over his radio. It was clear the Serbs knew he was ...

TENSE PEACE IN NEW ISRAEL BORDER 'WAR' By URI DAN JERUSALEM - Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas exchanged threats - but not bombs - yesterday while a controversy flared over how the latest Lebanese border war began. Officials in Beirut said nine Lebanese died, and $150 million in damages was sustained by bridges, power stations and telephone centers as a result of Israel's punishing air attacks Thursday night. On the other side of the border, Israel made a show of force - sending reinforcements of tanks and armored personnel carriers to Kiryat Shmona, where two Israeli citizens were killed by ...

Hidden History Of the Nazi Laws Nuremberg Document to Be Shown After 54 Years in Museum Vault By Sharon Waxman Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 26, 1999; Page A01 LOS ANGELES—Marriage between Jews and citizens of German or German-related blood are forbidden. Marriages which have been performed in spite of this law, even if they have been performed in a foreign country are void. Whoever acts against paragraph one will be punished with forced labor. -- Nuremberg Laws, paragraph one, Sept. 15, 1935 For 54 years, a document of immense historical moment has been buried -- unknown and unseen ...

KVI 570 in Seattle, a big player in talk radio, has fired talk show host Brian Maloney. Brian covered the 6pm to 9pm time slot. I'm an regular listener of KVI and wondered what happened. A station employee told me on the phone he was fired. Does anyone know why??