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South African races unite in vigilante war WHITE South Africans are flocking to a black-run vigilante group whose crime-fighting formula includes whipping suspects and dangling them before crocodiles. The leader of the organisation is Chief John Magolego, a black businessman from Northern province. He has been hailed by some as a messiah for his tough methods. But he now faces a murder trial after one punishment beating ended in death. Last week, Magolego travelled south to Pretoria to meet white members of the newest branch of his organisation, which calls itself Mapogo-a-Mathamaga, a name taken from a Sotho saying: "When ...

NATIONAL COMPUTER SYSTEM TO MONITOR AMERICANS NAMES, ADDRESSES, SALARIES AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS The WASHINGTON POST is planning a front page story for Sunday editions detailing an emerging federal computer system that monitors the names, addresses, salaries and Social Security numbers of virtually all adult Americans -- all in the name of tracking down parents who owe child support. The POST's Robert O'Harrow Jr. describes a system that is currently in place due to the overhaul of welfare laws three years ago which now "calls for all employers to quickly file reports on every person they hire and, quarterly, ...

(CNS) - Nicholas Lassonde, an A student whose graduation speech at Amador Valley High School was censored by school authorities because he sought to urge his classmates to follow God, is considering suing the school on the grounds his right to free speech was violated. The school district in Pleasanton, California, required Lassonde to remove religious references from his speech on Friday because they felt it would be a violation of the separation of church and state to allow him to talk about God. Lassonde wanted to tell his classmates not to put their trust "in princes and mortal ...

This country is ruled by a generation that fancies itself to be the most tolerant and enlightened generation mankind has produced. Our current political, cultural, and academic leaders view themselves as the culmination of evolution and they believe it is their duty (and destiny) to bring the rest of us Neanderthals into their truly humanist family of progressive beliefs. But there is a problem with our new Baby Boomer elite: namely they have no beliefs; only hatreds. Policy failure after policy failure is the mark of this generation: Busing is a complete failure. It is a paternal plantation racist policy ...

Buy George? A megapublisher bets twice that readers will. by Evan Smith With the possible exception of a spicy-hot former ingredient of Menudo—the group, not the soup—no one has seen his vida loca picked apart more thoroughly by the press in recent weeks than the plausibly White House-bound governor of Texas. Now it's publishing's turn. But while hordes of little girls are clamoring for quickie biographies of Ricky Martin, is anyone out there dying for a tome on George W. Bush? How about a pair? The German media conglomerate Bertelsmann apparently thinks so, because two of its imprints plan to ...

Baptists end meeting deeply divided 4.14 p.m. ET (2015 GMT) June 26, 1999 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The convention of American Baptist Churches USA ended with discord caused by the decision to cast out four churches for their pro-homosexual leanings. Even in worship, the strife in the denomination was evident Friday. Following the program's opening procession of local, regional and denominational leaders, protesters entered the arena at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. As a 200-voice choir and the assembly sang, marchers held high four crosses, representing the four California churches severed from the denomination last week for "welcoming and affirming'' ...

Conservative Talk Radio Host Steve Wampler has written a number of Op-ed columns that appear on his new web site. His tentative Talk Radio schedule is to have House Manager, Rep. James Rogan on July 11 and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher on July 18. The 'Right On' Talk Show airs Sundays at 8 p.m. on Radio KCBC 770AM in Central California. It is heard from Chico in the North to Fresno in the South. The Station Call-In phone number is 1-209-847-7700. Steve is fired up and full of energy and puts on a good program. I have volunteered to make his ...

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Computer language guru warned of Y2K years ago By Doug Williamson, The Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News The Year 2000 problem isn't sneaking up on Bob Bemer - he's been warning folks about it for 30 years. The 79-year-old man is considered ''The Father of ASCII,'' the method computers use to translate letters and numbers into digital language they can understand. He also developed the sequence behind the ''Esc'' escape button on the standard personal computer. But perhaps most significantly, Bemer belonged to a group of computer programmers in the 1950s who developed COBOL, the ''common business-oriented language'' used by mainframe computers. ...

Warm Summer skies blessed the D.C. Chapter's protest at the White House today. Aloyse, Angelwood, Doctor Raoul, myself, and a local lurker making her second appearance, spent the better part of four hours spreading the news of the treasonous actions of President Clinton.While we were favorably received by the tourists, there were a few flashes of hostility towards us that makes me think we are hitting a nerve--like we did during the impeachment proceedings.In one incident, Doctor Raoul was shoved by an angry man while he was doing his, "Ditch him, meet me at the gate routine." Fortunately, nothing came ...

Where God's word will be law By David Wastell in Brooksville, Alabama     RESIDENTS of a small community in the American Bible Belt are attempting to make history by establishing a town run solely on Christian principles, with the Ten Commandments as its only laws. Brooksville is a scattered settlement of houses and trailer homes on a hilltop south of the Tennessee River in Alabama. It has no status as a town. But a Pentecostal preacher, the Rev James Henderson, and a group of neighbours are out to place it firmly on the map. They have drawn up a ...

The WASHINGTON POST is planning a front page story for Sunday editions detailing a new federal computer system that is set to log the names, addresses, salaries and Social Security numbers of virtually all adult Americans -- all in the name of tracking down delinquent child support offenders... DEVELOPING HARD...

PUBLISHER TO REPORTERS: STOP LYING On June 14, a major American newspaper publishing corporation published "Guidelines On Ethical News-Gathering." Citing "a deep concern over public distrust of the media; a need to address the increase in lawsuits focusing on news-gathering methods and not on the truth of stories; and the desire to alleviate reader concerns about fairness and accuracy of content, the Gannett Newspaper Division effectively ordered its reporters to stop lying. Well, actually, the Gannett Newspaper Division set forth what it calls "The Gannett Principles of Ethical Conduct for Newsrooms" for all of its 73 daily newspapers. Therein, the ...

Kosovo: THE REST OF THE STORY American Investigator Report by Scott Wheeler "The bombing has stopped, at least for now, and the streetcars and buses are once again running. But just a few weeks ago Belgrade, the capitol city of Yugoslavia, was under fierce attack by NATO bomber planes dropping their ordnance from high above. The NATO war on Yugoslavia began on March 24th of this year after an ultimatum had been delivered to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to pull his troops out of the Kosovo region and allow NATO peacekeepers to occupy the entire nation of Yugoslavia. Press briefings ...

A 10-year-old boy has been charged with raping a 5-year-old boy while the two were playing videogames. Police say the incident happened June 16. The younger boy's father left the two alone in the apartment for about 30 minutes to go to the grocery store and returned to find his son being assaulted, police said. The older child, who had been staying with the younger boy's neighbors, confessed and said he learned how to do it by watching his parents, police said. A juvenile judge released the 10-year-old to his mother's custody and scheduled a court hearing for Thursday. ...

Found this little gem in the Hillary Clinton Quarterly.Taken as is and sources not verified. Hillary’s Shocking Drug Diary! By Frederic Schwarz During the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton said that he had tried drugs only once, and that was on foreign soil. If true, it would be yet another example of his wife bringing more than her share of know-how to their marriage. Hillary’s personal diary, a copy of which has been obtained by The Hillary Clinton Quarterly, reveals frequent attempts to expand her mind in many different ways. It’s no surprise that during the 1960s she participated ...

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BBC World: Europe As Russia began to fly in the first of its troops for the Kosovo peace-keeping operation, Romania was reported to have lifted its previous objections to Russian military planes using its airspace. Romania together withBulgaria -- both candidates for NATO membership -- had said such permission would not be given until Russia struck a deal with NATO on the deployment of troops in Kosovo. Reuters news agency quoted the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry spokesman Radko Vlaikov as saying the latest Russian request for overflights is a matter that has to be approved by parliament.