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It's up to you, New York, New York Start spreadin' the news, Hillary Clinton wants nothing less than a whole new life, writes JENNIFER HEWETT. INTRODUCING wannabe Senator Hillary Clinton ... Now a resident of the White House. Soon, very soon, to be a resident of New York. It's an extraordinary switch but there's no doubt that Clinton - the First Lady of surprises - has decided she wants to make it. Only the formal announcement of her campaign is missing. Perhaps it may coincide with the finding of the New York home for which she so diligently searching - ...

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ACTION ALERT: Kosovars Vs. Kurds Similar Crises Get Divergent Treatment in the New York Times June 25, 1999 An article in the June 24 New York Times reported on the trial in Turkey of captured Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan. The Times provided background on the war between Kurdish separatist guerrillas and Turkish security forces: "The war that Ocalan has waged has cost more than 30,000 lives and made him the object of intense hatred. It has also made him a heroic figure to many Kurds who live in Turkey's southeast." Contrast this description with the way the New York ...

Toward the end of Betrayal, Bill Gertz makes a judgment, and because he is qualified to make it, we should pay attention. It is based not on ideology, politics or self-interest, but on a decade of conscientious reporting. Gertz covers security and defense issues for the Washington Times, and, just as the blurbs on his book jacket say, he does it more knowledgeably than any other daily reporter. That means he can offer an informed opinion: President Clinton's most important legacy will not be his serio-comic sex scandals, but his dead serious disarmament of the United States and his ...

Boston elementary school teacher was placed on leave without pay and a warrant was issued for his arrest yesterday, a day after police arrested him outside a Dorchester drug house where he allegedly bought crack cocaine. Police had released 39-year-old Oliver Wendell Homes School teacher Charles Jones of Roxbury on $125 cash bail Thursday night with the provision that he appear in court yesterday. A default warrant was issued for his arrest when he didn't show up. Jones did not report to school yesterday, school officials said. Criminal records show that Jones has three prior convictions for armed and ...

LEXINGTON, Va. - Virginia Military Institute's top cadet was dismissed last month for allegedly demanding sex from three freshmen women, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Saturday. VMI officials told the newspaper that Jerry Webb II, recently chosen as the regimental commander of the Corps of Cadets for the coming year, was expelled for conduct unbecoming a cadet. Sources the newspaper did not identify said the misconduct involved demands for sex from the three women. ``We acted as we normally do, as quickly as we could under normal disciplinary procedures,'' VMI spokesman Mike Strickler said Friday. ``We handled everything properly.'' Strickler said ...

The last days of last year's 105th Congress were an insult to informed Americans desiring reasonable limits on legal immigrants and an end to illegal immigration. The Democrats achieved ``amnesty'' for 40,000 Haitians who snuck across our borders while Republicans boosted the number of foreign ``H-1b workers'' (usually computer programmers and engineers) from 65,000 to 115,000 annually. Some in the high-tech computer industry keep repeating the myth ``that there are not enough American college graduates with computer or engineering skills.'' This is simply not true. One 1998 study found that 50 American job applicants are rejected for every job ...

  These people have a list of NATO war crimes and want to bring NATO to justice. http://www.iacenter.org/trbmemo1.htm Below are the dirty deeds of NATO in a nutshell.     1. Research into concerted actions to dismember Yugoslavia and obtain military domination of the Balkans. 2. Research into actions to destroy Yugoslavia economically and militarily. 3. Gathering of information on the destruction of facilities essential to economic life throughout Yugoslavia. 4. Research into the targeting and destruction of facilities necessary for civilian life—hospitals, electrical plants, residential areas, bridges, water purification plants, and other vital structures. 5. Collection of information on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Self-rule for Kosovo will be on the agenda when Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the foreign ministers of seven countries meet next week at the United Nations. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will chair Wednesday's meeting of the G-8 ministers, the group that formulated terms for a settlement of the conflict between NATO and Yugoslavia. Among them is restoration of self-rule for the Yugoslav province, which means the overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian majority will be able to run their own day-to-day affairs and set aside Belgrade's control. Though the Clinton administration says Kosovo is remaining in Yugoslavia, ...

A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to regulate certain 50 caliber sniper weapons in the same manner as machine guns and other firearms. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the `Military Sniper Weapon Regulation Act of 1999'. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that-- (1) certain firearms originally designed and built for use as long-range 50 caliber military sniper weapons are increasingly sold in the domestic civilian market; (2) the intended use of ...

The Clinton doctrine, as it seems to be evolving, apparently holds that the Air Force will bomb into oblivion any country that violates American principles during a civil war - so long as it is no bigger than Ohio, has fewer than 90,000 soldiers and is utterly defenseless. The next target could be Sierra Leone. More than 100,000 refugees have streamed into Guinea to escape the fighting - but rebels frequently sneak across the border to kidnap, kill or mutilate them. One man's tongue and hands were cut off, for example. Sri Lanka might be a better target. Like ...

Counterpoint: Campaign 'reform' aims to gag public, protect incumbents Media pundits are promoting "campaign finance reform" as an election cure-all. However, this so-called reform is nothing more than an attempt by certain incumbents to keep their voting records and positions on issues secret from the public. In its current fashion, campaign finance reform gags ordinary citizens who take a position on important issues. Both of the "reform" bills being considered by Congress, the Shays-Meehan and McCain-Feingold bills, contain provisions to severely restrict the ability of citizen groups, such as Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, to communicate with the public regarding ...

Not intended for any commercial use. Posted for discussion and fair-use purposes only Sister William Agnes Nelson learns how to use a computer at the St. Joseph's Provincial House, a home for elderly nuns, in Latham, N.Y. Searching for God in cyberspace An age-old quest moves into new territory By Joan Connell MSNBC OPINIONS EDITOR  In biblical times, the lost tribes wandering in the Sinai saw God as a column of smoke, a pillar of fire. In the era of empires, God was imagined as a king on a distant throne. Democracy demands a more intimate deity, and these days, ...

WASHINGTON (June 25, 1999 6:44 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Two months after the Legal Services Corp. admitted regional offices overstated their workloads, government auditors found that the five largest offices also reported 75,000 cases they couldn't document. The Baltimore and New York City offices of the federal program, which provides free legal help to low-income Americans, reported twice as many legal cases as they should have, according to a General Accounting Office draft report released to lawmakers Friday. Congress uses case reports when deciding how much money the agency should receive. Republican critics of Legal Services said the GAO ...

6/26 (Saturday)12:35pm to 02:37pm ET 09:35am to 11:37am PT Senate Committe - UN Ambassador Confirmation Cmte.: Foreign Relations ID : 125415 Length : 2 hr 02 min Event date : 06/24/99 Helms, Jesse, U.S. Senator 1973-, R-NC Holbrooke, Richard, Assistant Secretary 1993-96, Department of State Mr. Holbrooke testified about his diplomacy in the Balkans, where he had served for several years as President Clinton's chief envoy. Several senators asked about his close dealings with Yugoslav President Milosevic who had been indicted for war crimes by an international tribunal. Mr. Holbrooke responded by saying that he was not in a position ...

GENEVA - A ``significant number'' of developing countries face severe trade disruption and a collapse of customs operations at year's end because they are not ready to cope with the year 2000 problem, a U.N. agency has warned. Jean Gurunlian, a senior official of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), said trade could be interrupted for these countries for weeks or ``maybe months.'' The text of his remarks, delivered Thursday to the World Customs Organization, were released by the agency in Geneva Friday. Gurunlian is director of UNCTAD's division for services infrastructure for development and trade efficiency. Of ...

WASHINGTON (June 25, 1999 6:03 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - President Clinton linked funds to rebuild Serbia to the future of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, vowing at a news conference Friday that the United States will not give Serbia "one red cent" to rebuild unless the Serbs show remorse for atrocities by Milosevic's forces. "They are going to have to come to grips with what Milosevic ordered in Kosovo. ... If they think it's OK, they can make that decision, but I wouldn't give them one red cent for reconstruction," he told a news conference. Clinton clearly implied that remorse ...

Dole picks Reagan administration officials as advisers 10.13 p.m. ET (214 GMT) June 25, 1999 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 ...

President taps Arkansas friend to head commodity futures panel KATHERINE M. REYNOLDSBLOOMBERG NEWS WASHINGTON -- President Clinton nominated William J. Rainer, a private investor and friend from Arkansas, to become chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the administration said.    Rainer, 53, a co-founder of Greenwich Capital Markets Inc. and a former Kidder, Peabody & Co. trader, is an El Dorado, Ark., native. He's a 1964 graduate of El Dorado High School, was a star athlete on the high school basketball team and president of the student body.    Sen. Richard G. Lugar, chairman of the Senate Agriculture ...

For education & discussion only. On Tuesday afternoon, a man convicted of a shooting signed himself out of his work-release program, went to North Philadelphia and shot and killed another man, police said. The alleged shooter, Walter Smith, is still at large. "We all should be alarmed at the fact that an individual who was just sentenced this past October is out on the street and able to find a weapon and shoot this guy," said Homicide Capt. James Brady. The mother of the dead man, Steven Taylor, couldn't believe it when she learned Smith was sentenced to a work-release ...