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6/26/99 -- 1:13 PM Top DOE nuclear weapons program official resigns LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - The Energy Department's top official overseeing the nation's nuclear weapons programs has resigned because of differences with Energy Secretary Bill Richardson over the department's organization, administration sources said Saturday. Victor Reis, assistant secretary for defense programs, submitted his resignation in a letter to President Clinton on Friday, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. Reis could not be reached immediately Saturday. Reis is one of a number of officials targeted by an internal review into the mishandling of an espionage investigation involving ...

BRITAIN AND France laid the foundations yesterday of what could become a stand-by army for the United Nations, able to intervene without delay as a peacekeeping force in emergencies around the world. The move was announced at a meeting in London yesterday between the Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, George Robertson the Defence Secretary and Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General. Under the agreement, Britain will be putting up to 8,000 men on permanent standby for the UN. They will be front-line, rapid-reaction forces, backed by aircraft and communications, engineering and command-and-control units. The two British ministers underlined that Britain retained ...

From the June 1999 Idaho Observer: Stevens County, Wash., alters lien language Auditor tax lien list becomes "notice" to feds COLVILLE -- On March 30, 1999, Jim Shaver and a group of constitutionally-concerned Stevens County residents presented testimony before the county's board of commissioners in an effort to change the language of the county's list of more than 2,000 IRS liens. The Stevens County Commissioners responded May 11, 1999, by advising Shaver by letter that, "The Board and the Auditor have read the materials you submitted and consulted with the County's legal advisor. It is our joint decision to change ...

CHINA WANTS TOTAL, NOT PARTIAL, NUCLEAR DISARMAMENTWASHINGTON: China is ready to consider nuclear disarmament only if it is total, that is, abolition of all nuclear weapons in the world, and not simple reduction in the number of such weapons. "Senior Chinese officials have said they are prepared to begin United Nations Security Council talks on complete nuclear disarmament now, but only on the basis of zero nukes," says Robert A Manning, director of Asian studies at the council on foreign relations, who visited China recently. According to manning, China's nuclear calculus has become more complicated of late with the emergence ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. For Greg Priore, an archivist at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, it's a dream come true. For the world, it should be considered a legacy saved. A $500,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York will help preserve and restore a litany of books, letters, pamphlets and photographs related to Pittsburgh industrialist Andrew Carnegie. The ravages of time have rendered the collection, housed on the third floor of the library's main branch in Oakland, nearly untouchable by the public. The grant, which must be used within one year, will ...

NATO-led peacekeeping forces struggled to maintain order in Kosovo yesterday as ethnic Albanian refugees poured back into the province at an unprecedented pace and a wave of violence left 14 dead in the capital. U.S. Marines stationed about 20 miles southeast of Pristina came under attack for a second time this week, killing one person while returning fire. It was unclear whether the slain gunman was a Serb or an ethnic Albanian. The violence underscored the volatile atmosphere that has taken hold in Kosovo, a province of Yugoslavia's main republic, Serbia, where only half of the planned force of 55,000 ...

MOSCOW, June 26 (AFP) - A senior general warned Saturday of a robust riposte if KLA guerrillas attacked Russian peacekeepers, as an advance team left for Kosovo to prepare the arrival of the main Russian contingent. A group of 18 air traffic control experts, 21 paratroopers and a handful of liaison officers left Chkalovsky airbase near Moscow at 12:00 p.m. (0800 GMT) bound for Slatina aerodrome in Pristina. Once in Kosovo's regional capital the team will install specialist navigation equipment to allow the airstrip to serve as a busy hub for the UN-mandated peacekeeping operation in the secessionist Yugoslav province. ...

State Republican Party officials Thursday abandoned their bid to end California's "winner take all" balloting system in time for the March 2000 presidential primary election. The GOP gave up hope of receiving legislative approval for a change its state executive committee overwhelmingly approved last weekend. Under the proposed change, 156 California delegates would have been divided between the winners in individual congressional districts -- three for each of the state's 52 districts -- rather than all 156 being awarded to the statewide winner. The proposal was seen as advantageous to challengers of the current GOP presidential front-runner, Texas Gov. ...

Air National Guard members share relief, hugs with families Staff Sgt. Lee Downey holds his nine-week-old daughter Maddy - for the first time in eight weeks - on Friday at the Air National Guard base in Moon Township while his son Lee Jr. watches from behind. Downey and the other members of the 171st Air Refueling Wing have begun returning from their two-month deployment to Germany, where they took part in Operation Allied Force. (Livingston/Tribune-Review) By Cathy RubinTRIBUNE-REVIEW Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Wilt read children's stories to his wife's tummy during the final months of her pregnancy. See related story ...

June 26 - A private detective from Denver who authorities say provided a steady stream of confidential information to the world tabloid press about the JonBenét Ramsey murder investigation has been indicted by the Jefferson County grand jury. James Joseph Rapp, 39, also furnished the tabloids with private information about the victims of the Columbine High School massacre, authorities say. They allege he used subterfuge to obtain everything from unlisted phone numbers and home addresses to bank records and credit card bills. "No one should be allowed to make a profit by selling personal information about the victims of ...

After a careful look at the talk radio scene we have decided to move "THe David Gold Show" to the evenings. The syndication will be available to talk stations throughout the U.S. The Salem Radio Network will distribute the show. The show will run from 9-midnight Central, 7-10Pm Pacific. There will be a taped re-feed. The show should be the only LIVE Conservative call in show at that time for most markets. Many of you listen to shows on tape delay how a bout something live? I have been doing Conservative talk radio for 23 years now. "Conservative before Conservative ...

Home of the Firehat... by Norman Liebmann * * * CLINTON'S PLACE IN HISTORY © Bill Clinton is twisting his handkerchief and fretting about his place in history. Not to worry. Here is a list of his highlights future generations will have a tough time forgetting. While taking the oath of office he became the first President to burn his hand on a Bible. First President to detour a Presidential motorcade through a Jack-in-the-Box. Changed the name of the Presidential plane to Haircut One. Formulated his policy on tax collecting after reading a biography of the Sheriff of Nottingham. ...

***SO HERE WE ARE IN THE GOREBUSH ERA** DETROIT--Relying on poll numbers as they denounce reliance on pollsters, establishment politicians and the Boys on the Bus have leapfrogged primary elections to decide--nearly a year and a half before Election Day--that the contest is between George the Dubyuh and Albert the Gee. How wrong they may be. One of the anointed may make a terrible gaffe under stress or lose his voice or suffer an unexpected malady. The smug lineartists may be panicked by a grassroots emergence of a Fresh Face. Lovers of real contests will focus on erosion of Gorebush ...

I heard a weird thing on Rush yesterday and was wondering if anyone else heard it the way I did, or if there was a good explanation. I was listening to WBAP 820 in Dallas about 2:00 and this is what I heard. Rush began talking about Kosovo and how NATO had only been able to destroy 13 out of the 300 tanks that Slobo has. He then went on to talk about how many sorties had been flown over there and started to discuss the targets. He then started to kind of rant about how NATO was going after ...

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He repeated again and again, I'm still here and I'm still working. But his tone said something different. President Clinton's news conference yesterday was limp, reflective, meandering--taps rather than reveille, a lion in winter. Maybe that's the best possible news for America. Because, as we've learned so emphatically, nothing gets Bill Clinton's energy flowing like a walk on the precipice of political catastrophe. No more war, no new scandal, no fresh horror in a schoolyard or federal building: When the president is boring it means all's right with the world. Clinton's exchange with reporters lasted an hour and a ...

Third party? It's your move GOP. You are exactly right, GOP should write into law either a no loop holes flat tax or even better a Federal sales tax. Let Clinton veto it and then take the issue to the people in the 2000 election. The GOP will not do this because the GOP is just as much in love with tax loop holes and social engineering as the Democrats. The only way we will get REAL tax relief is by elected Steve Forbes or Alan Keyes. Other candidates will pay lip service to the issue of taxes but once ...

For fair use Kids Get Lessons on Explicit SexBy Kelly Patricia O'MearaPublic schools and local libraries increasingly have been choosing to make available to children graphic and sexually explicit books that barely can be described in this magazine.Picture your adolescent browsing through the school library. Other than home, it's the one place parents may feel sure their children are likely to be protected from pornography, obscenity, perversion and other vulgarity. But are they? . . . . Innocently scanning the school-library shelves a child chooses It's Perfectly Normal, a book about sex and reproduction by Robie Harris. Flipping through the ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1999 11:29:55 ET XXXXX WHITE HOUSE TOLD OF CHINA NUKE THEFT ONE YEAR EARLIER White House officials were informed that China might have stolen American nuclear secrets nearly a year earlier than the Clinton administration originally disclosed, Jeff Gerth of the NY TIMES is planning to report on Sunday. According to publishing sources, Gerth is building his story from conversations and documents supplied by current and former U.S. officials.

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