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Thursday, 27 May 1999 Alexander Lebed: The eXile interview Despite having achieved national fame as the suppressor of the Transdniester rebellion and international renown as the bringer of peace to Chechnya, and despite having scored a convincing victory last year in the race for the Governorship of the Krasnoyarsk region, General Alexander Lebed remains a somewhat ambiguous figure in Russian public life, a political underachiever whose detractors are often more passionate than his followers. In a way that makes little sense on its face, Lebed belongs to that unfortunate group of Russian politicians-- a group that includes Anatoly Chubais, ...

Most Americans say they haven't reaped the benefits of the rally that has driven U.S. stock prices up in the late 1990s, a Newsweek poll said. The poll also showed a small increase in U.S. President Bill Clinton's approval rating, which rose 1 percentage point in the poll over the past month to 54 percent, according to Princeton Survey Research Associates, the firm that conducted the poll. Only 32 percent of those polled said they shared in the benefits created by the bull market, which has driven the Dow Jones Industrial Average up more the 175 percent since the beginning ...

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000647321007942&rtmo=Liidbxdd&atmo=HHHHHHXL&pg=/et/99/6/27/wkos327.html Nato bombed Chinese embassy 'spy base' By David Wastell in Washington [...] TWO of the three "journalists" killed when American bombs struck the Chinese embassy in Belgrade were, in fact, spies for Beijing, while the building destroyed was China's intelligence-gathering headquarters, it has emerged in Washington. The revelation, confirmed by US officials, helps explain continuing Chinese suspicion that the bombing was not - as both Nato and the US government insist - the result of mistaken targeting. The bodies of the three Chinese were given heroes' receptions when they were flown to Beijing and became the focus of ...

Responding to congressional moves to limit Y2K lawsuits and an industry push to arbitrate, rather than litigate such disputes, a Pennsylvania alternative dispute resolution (ADR) company has formed what it called a Y2K mediation group.Launched by Pittsburgh-based JUSTUS ADR Services, the JUSTUS Year 2000 Mediation Group will - for a fee - help companies work out their Y2K disputes outside of a courtroom, attorney Heather Heidelbaugh, co- founder of the group told Newsbytes. "If there is a dispute, mediation allows companies a non-binding opportunity to talk about what they want," Heidelbaugh said. Mediation is a step below arbitration, since ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP)--A demonstration by American Indian activists turned violent Saturday as people ransacked a store and set fires. Two news photographers were roughed up. The four-hour American Indian Movement rally Saturday started peacefully in Pine Ridge and ended with a two-mile walk to nearby Whiteclay, Neb. At Whiteclay, a group of people stormed VJ's Market and threw soda pop, cigarettes and other merchandise onto the street. Two fires were also set in the store but were quickly extinguished. Someone also threw rocks at law officers when they arrived. At least two news photographers were roughed up, including ...

Abraham Lincoln has been called many things down the years, but to most Americans the idea that Honest Abe was a homosexual remains a novel experience. Americans have always been taught that their 16th - and arguably their greatest - president was happily married to Mary Todd, the mother of his two sons. Lincoln, they have been told, was straight in every particular, the boudoir being no exception. But the prominent playwright and gay activist Larry Kramer has seen fit to suggest otherwise, and it is causing no end of stink among the scholars, curators and amateur historians who consider ...

s one of talk radio's original angry white males, Bob Grant of WOR-AM has enjoyed considerable notoriety and won high ratings by making inflammatory comments about the people who upset him. They tend to be poor, politically liberal or black. In recent months, however, Grant has been tormenting someone on the other end of the political and economic spectrums: Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, a virtual paragon of establishment affluence and Republican moderation. Grant has feuded with the Governor since 1994, when she chastised him for making racially offensive comments. Now he is flirting with a run as ...

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Energy official overseeing the nation's nuclear-weapons programs resigned Friday. The resignation stemmed chiefly from Dr. Victor Reis' differences with Energy Secretary Bill Richardson over reorganizing the department, according to a Clinton administration source familiar with the situation. Reis, the DOE's assistant secretary for defense programs, sent a letter of resignation Friday to President Clinton. As of July 30, Reis will end a six-year tenure as the nation's nuclear weapons chief and the executive in charge of more than 25,000 workers, including over 70 percent of contract employees at the nuclear weapons labs in New Mexico ...

U.S. Is Said to Have Known of China Spy Link in 1995 June 27, 1999 ASHINGTON -- Senior White House officials were informed that China might have stolen American nuclear secrets nearly a year earlier than the Clinton Administration originally disclosed, according to current and former United States officials. The White House was told about China's apparent theft of American nuclear weapons technology in July 1995, soon after it was detected by the Energy Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, several officials said. Until now, the Administration has left the impression that the White House first learned about the ...

THE Hungarian minority in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina is intensifying efforts to gain autonomy in the wake of the Kosovo conflict. In a move likely to increase political pressure on President Slobodan Milosevic, the 300,000 ethnic Hungarians there are demanding the return of the wide-ranging autonomy they held until 1991. Their special status was similar to that enjoyed in the past by ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. But it was removed following changes to the federal constitution forced through by Mr Milosevic. In the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict, ethnic Hungarian leaders have now enlisted the support of Hungary ...

By Ann Coulter The really appropriate setting for writing an article about dating in the nation's capital would be home alone in my D.C. apartment on a Saturday night. By chance, however, I'll be in New York this weekend. By chance, I've been in New York every weekend for approximately the previous 147 weeks, give or take a few shuttle mishaps. But since all my stuff is in D.C., I do have to drop in occasionally. Consequently, I've become a minor authority on dating in Washington. Maybe not on dating exactly but one crucial element of any date: "the ask." ...

**ALBERT EINSTEIN SAID AT LEAST TWO IMPORTANT THINGS:*** The first of course was: E = mc2 Statement of the mass-energy equivalence relationship: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: "If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2." 1st die Tragheit eines Korpers von seinem Energieghalt abhangig? (1905) "That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God." "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of ...

Following is a message I have been sending to the Demoncraps regarding the Bill of NO Rights. "Bill of NO Rights" The following was written by State Representative Mitchell Kaye from GA. You may find it interesting: "We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whinny, guilt-ridden, deluded, ...

GUNS AND HUMAN LIFE** My ancestors were early-day pioneers in this part of Texas,and I remember a discussion with my great-aunt a few years before she passed on at the age of 95 in the early 1960s. She remembered her dad wearing his gun belt wherever he went; at night, he hung the gun belt with his Colt .45 on the bedpost near his head. His gun was never out of reach 24 hours a day. My aunt said that by the time she was a teen-ager she could handle a .45 revolver as well as any man and that ...

EIGHTY MILLION BANGLADESHIS FACE ARSENIC POISONING, SAYS NEW STUDYDhaka - About 80 million people, two-thirds of Bangladesh's population of 125 million, face arsenic poisoning from drinking well water, a new study has said. The three-month study published yesterday tested water from 12,000 wells across Bangladesh. Sixty percent were tainted by arsenic poisoning up to four milligrams per litre of water, said Mahmudur Rahman of the private Dhaka community hospital, which conducted the study with researchers from India's Jadavpur University. The World Health Organisation's (WHO) safety standard for arsenic in water is a maximum of 0.01 milligrams per litre. "Time is ...

Saturday, June 26, 1999 71 executed to mark UN anti-drug day ASSOCIATED PRESS Firing squads put at least 71 people to death for drug trafficking yesterday in the mainland's annual flurry of executions to mark the United Nations' anti-drug day. In all, at least 98 people have been executed or sentenced to death nationwide in recent days ahead of today's International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, according to state media reports. Twenty-eight traffickers were executed yesterday in Guangzhou after their sentences were announced at public rallies attended by nearly 7,000 people, Xinhua said. They included Qu Yongcai, who ...

Leave a voice mail message on the DOJ's Teamster 'Independent' Review Board's CORRUPTION HOTLINE @: 1 800 CALL IRB or email Board member William H. Webster @: wwebster@milbank.com Ask them why they have failed to act on the overwhelming video evidence of assult, by John Morris and his Teamster thugs, on Don Adams last October 2nd, and tell them you are contacting: Congressman Pete Hoekstra: www.house.gov/hoekstra/ Hokestra's Chief of Staff: Jon.Vandenheuvel@mail.house.gov AND Congressman Bob Barr: www.house.gov/barr Lauren.Fuller@mail.house.gov Freep them every day and send them the link to Don's web site -- until they respond. .......

Our motto is "Truth In Science". The truth of the matter about C/1999 H1 (Lee) is that nobody can project its path, and that the observed rapid increase in brightness in connection with the officially supplied orbital modifications provide a strong indication that it's going to progressively bend inwards towards the orbital plane of Earth. We are saying that all possibilities should be considered; now! We, at The Millennium Group think that the strength and future of this country of ours, as well as that of humankind, rests with a well informed and empowered citizenry. We believe that the difficult ...

US Resolution Introduced on Panama Canal Washington, June 25 (CNA) US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) has introduced a House resolution prohibiting US assistance to Panama if a defense site or military installation built or formerly operated by the United States is provided by the Panamanian government to any foreign government-owned entity. A US congressional delegation that recently toured Central America in anticipation of the handover of the Panama Canal at the end of this year concluded in its report that mainland Chinese dominance of the Panama Canal zone represents a threat to US security. The US-Panama Security act of 1999, ...