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For fair use Letter from Kosovo Now Comes the Struggle for Power By Anna Husarska Sunday, June 27, 1999; Page B01 PRISTINA, Yugoslavia—The Kosovo Albanian spotted the New Republic logo on my cap and broke into a broad smile. "Hey, we are now from a new republic, too," he announced triumphantly. Everywhere I went in Kosovo this month, the name of my home magazine made me popular. I gradually gave away all the paraphernalia I owned with the logo on it: first the cap, then the polo shirt, then the sweat shirt. Even my business cards were a hit among ...

For fair use Kosovo's Forlorn Serbs Fear Uncertain Future By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, June 27, 1999; Page A27 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, June 26—To Aleksandar Vajsel, the crowd of casually dressed men and women on the other end of the bridge is a lynch mob waiting to burn him out of his apartment and expel him from Kosovo. Though none wears a uniform, Vajsel has no doubt they are armed members of the rebel ethnic Albanian army. He stands in the street, along with other men, ready to defend himself. Many of the men carry iron ...

Reason Free Minds Free Markets REASON * January 1999 Hooked on Fantasies By Glenn Garvin Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, by Gary Webb, New York: Seven Stories Press, 548 pages, $24.95 Hell hath no fury like a leftist scorned. And boy, have they been scorned for the past decade. The fall of the Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European puppets, the deluge of Cuban rafters--the list is endless. It's gotten to the point where I wouldn't be surprised to see a mob of students marching on ...

For fair use 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 ...

PAKISTAN TACITLY ADMITS ACTIVITY KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan appeared to admit for the first time today that it had a hand in troops battling Indian forces in the disputed Kashmir region, but it rebuffed U.S. calls to withdraw its forces. Since hostilities began in early May, India has contended Pakistan had troops among hundreds of fighters who seized mountain positions in the Kargil region of Indian-held part of the divided Kashmir. Until today, Pakistan denied any role with the fighters, saying they were Kashmiri Muslims battling for independence from India. Its tacit admission came amid U.S. efforts to ...

For fair use Rivalry Between Clinton and Gore Camps Gets Heated By John F. Harris and Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, June 27, 1999; Page A02 Long-simmering tension between advisers to President Clinton and Vice President Gore boiled over anew yesterday in a dispute about Gore's political strategy of trying to distance himself from Clinton's scandal-tarred personal life. The dispute is the latest example of the sniping and recriminations that have become common this year between the Clinton and Gore camps--a rivalry that is souring a once-smooth working relationship between the president and vice president and is becoming ...

For fair use Chinese Action Casts Doubt on Hong Kong System By Michael Laris Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, June 27, 1999; Page A23 BEIJING, June 26—In a move opponents said undermines the rule of law in Hong Kong, China's legislature today overturned a decision by the territory's highest court that had opened the door to a large influx of mainland immigrants. Hong Kong's Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa had asked the legislature in Beijing to intervene and reject the Hong Kong court's ruling, warning that as many as 1.6 million new residents would rush in and overburden the already crowded ...

Starr Must Turn Over Tripp Tapes .c The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that Linda Tripp's recordings of conversations with Monica Lewinsky must be turned over to Maryland prosecutors, clearing a potential roadblock to trying Ms. Tripp for breaking state wiretap laws. The judge's order that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr must turn over the recordings followed a request for the tapes by State Prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli, The (Baltimore) Sun reported Saturday. Ms. Tripp's attorney, Joe Murtha, said he will challenge any indictment brought against his client on the grounds that she is protected by federal ...

    Sunday, June 27, 1999   Escalation is no solution   A few hours after the chief of staff complained that the IDF had been handcuffed by the politicians, he received authorization for action deep inside Lebanon. It's understandable that when thousands of citizens living along the northern border don't have the peace and quiet they deserve, and when the IDF has difficulty preventing Katyusha attacks, the politicians find themselves in a quandary and decide to allow a reaction that is little more than an act of revenge or retaliation. But bombing Beirut power stations or destroying two ...

The Dream That Never Was: The Rise and Fall of Socialized Medicine in the United States of America Stephen R. Katz, M.D. Fairfield, CT A friend of mine recently wisely commented that it would be impossible to socialize anything in the United States of America until and unless you could get the middle class to accept entitlements and to like them. Based upon that, and on the public's obvious penchant for what they have mistakenly believed to be "free" medical care, he predicted that insurance companies will have about10 years left to make money in managed care. He assumed that ...

x x x x x XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT, JUNE 26, 1999 20:20:12 ET XXXXX 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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- With regard to the news release entitled: American Hero to Be Honored at Pinehurst Special Olympics Chairman Sargent Shriver Commended for Lifetime of Public Service posted at 12:05 p.m. (EST), President Clinton will not be attending the Special Olympics 1999 World Games. All other news regarding Special Olympics Chairman Sargent Shriver's awards ceremony this evening at the Pinehurst Resort & Country Club in North Carolina is still current.

  Sunday, June 27, 1999   Damascus reigns in Hezbollah following U.S. pressure Funerals of two Kiryat Shmona citizens held on Friday and today   By Amos Harel, The U.S. was involved in bringing a quick end to the sharp escalation in violence in Lebanon this weekend, with Defense Minister Moshe Arens calling on U.S. Undersecretary of State for Near East Affairs Martin Indyk to relay to Damascus that Syria should restrain the Hezbollah. Tense quiet returned to the North yesterday following Thursday's 12 hours of Katyusha attacks and Israeli Air Force retaliation deep into Lebanon. Two Israelis were ...

The Government Is Reading Your E-mail With the Echelon program, the U.S. and its allies are collaborating to monitor the Internet FROM THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1999 In the past month a series of announcements from the governments of Australia, the U.K., Canada, France, Germany, Sweden and the U.S., among others, has brought to light the existence of a massive international electronic surveillance network known as "Echelon." Its existence was officially confirmed by the Australian intelligence agency back on May 23. In a nutshell, Echelon is a joint project undertaken by the U.S. and its allies to monitor satellite transmissions, ...

........ QUESTION: Mr. President, two-and-a-half years ago in your inaugural you said you wanted to help the nation repair the breach. And this morning again, you called for greater cooperation in Washington. But it seems apparent, for many people, you personally remain a polarizing and divisive figure in national politics. I was wondering if you have ever reflected on why, as Mrs. Clinton, I think has sometimes noted, throughout your career, you've always seemed to generate such antagonism from your opponents. And do you assign any responsibility to yourself for what this morning you described as the rancorous mode in ...

What Ever Happened to 'Medical Insurance'? Stephen R. Katz, M.D. Fairfield, CT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm often asked, "Is medical insurance today the same as it was when you graduated from medical school 34 years ago?" My answer to this question is a resounding "No!" And I've figured out how this situation came about, and why it's harmful to both patients and physicians. Over the years, patients and physicians have been brainwashed by some bright policy wonks working in concert with some well known, entrenched politicians. They have worked very hard over the last 30 or more years to change the very ...

California has provided the latest data in the debate over smaller class sizes. And it isn't all that good. So why are the nation's schools and politicians so positive this reform will work? Without a doubt, it's the hottest fad in education politics - smaller classes. The hope is that with a higher concentration of teachers, schools will do much better. While the fad has swept across the nation, the proof for the program's effectiveness has not been well established. In fact, it's really based on just one study: Tennessee's Student/ Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) program. We can't help ...

With Vice President Al Gore's sudden epiphany that his boss's behavior with with Monica Lewinsky was "unforgivable" -- and his wife Tipper said to be outraged by Bill Clinton's symbolic semen stain on the Oval Office, now might be a good time for the Second Couple to remember that Sexgate has an even darker side. Bill Clinton's alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick still haunts Washington like no other scandal in living memory. In fact, the prospect that America might have elected, then re-elected, a rapist to its highest office terrifies even the hardbitten newsies of the Washington press corps. Why? ...

EPA RULES CALLED UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Heads Up A Weekly View from the Foothills of Appalachia June 27, 1999 #141 by: Doug Fiedor fiedor19@eos.net Last month, a three-judge panel at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals acted on a lawsuit by a number of trucking and industry groups, and put the Environmental Protection Agency into a tizzy. It's not completely over until it hits the Supreme Court (if they dare appeal), but it looks like EPA lost a big one. This concerned EPA's arbitrary new regulations issued in July 1997. That new round of unsubstantiated oppression imposed much tougher "health standards" for ...

JUNE 2, 1998: Projectiles Hit Sun PROJECTILES ON PARALLEL TRAJECTORY STRIKE THE SUN (Slow loading due to necessary resolution, Netscape 4.0 800x600) FINALLY TWO DAYS LATER NASA RELEASES AN "OFFICIAL" EXPLANATION  Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 14:53:32 -0500 Subject: [lunascan] SOHO Spacecraft Sees Two Comets Plunge into Sun Douglas Isbell Headquarters, Washington, DC June 3, 1998 (Phone: 202/358-1547) Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-5017) NOTE TO EDITORS: N98-38 SOHO SPACECRAFT SEES TWO COMETS PLUNGE INTO SUN In a rare celestial spectacle, two comets have been observed plunging into the Sun's atmosphere in close succession, on ...