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Al Gore has at least two things going for him in the 2000 presidential election: the sides of his face. They're evenly matched. But on the downside, the vice presidential bean doesn't lean enough to one side or the other. When it comes to lateral head flexion -- that all-important art of head-tilting -- his stiff neck is one reason his nonverbals are downright limp. Forget policy. What counts most are the candidate's cheekbones and other elements of the first impression he or she creates, according to a group of researchers who practice what they call political psychology, or ...

Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 1:49 AM Subject: Patti Nielson: Columbine Witness Discrepancies!!!!! =========================================== Colombine Witness Discrepency COLUMBINE TEACHER/WITNESS TALKS Statements Invalidate Official" Accounts Update: Authorities Question Klebold Suicide After Teacher's Testimony Invalidates Scenario! By John A. Quinn © 1999 NewsHawk Inc. All Rights reserved Nearly 2 months after the nation's worst school shooting incident, Columbine High School art teacher Patti Nielson has given her first public statements to the Denver Post about her experiences at the school on 4/20/99. The implications of Patti Nielson's statements, although thoroughly edited and perhaps unintentionally shaped by the Post to correlate more closely ...

City Still Far Behind In Fixing Computers - Page A01 The District government, recognizing that its year 2000 repair program likely will not be completed on time, is planning a massive New Year's Eve mobilization of emergency personnel and other staff to ensure that critical city services are not interrupted if computer systems fail. Police will be stationed at more than 120 locations across the city, working 12-hour shifts, to take walk-in requests for emergency services. Twenty-one "warming centers," each supplied with food, water and cots, will open. School crossing guards will be on call, ready to replace traffic lights ...

For opposition politicians in Yugoslavia, this should be showtime. President Slobodan Milosevic has lost his fourth war in a row and surrendered the ``sacred'' Serbian homeland of Kosovo to heavily armed foreigners. He has been charged with war crimes, the Swiss are swooping down to close any bank accounts he might have and the United States has offered $5 million to anyone who helps nab him. A third of Yugoslavs are jobless, incomes are down 40 percent this year and, according to a credible poll by a private firm this week, 70 percent of Serbs blame Milosevic for the ...

Abraham Lincoln gay? Before he got married, Lincoln shared a bed for four years with Joshua Speed. A diary that Speed had purportedly kept reveals intimacies between the two men, STEPHANIE SIMON writes. THE newspaper in Springfield, Illinois, runs a picture of Abraham Lincoln on its masthead, right next to the list of top editors. Above the publisher's name is a quote from Old Abe himself, praising the paper as "always my friend." Loyalty to Lincoln clearly ranks high in Springfield. Which is why many readers saw the newspaper's recent banner headline as a betrayal. Stretched across the top of ...

WHEN THE PRESS CAME KNOCKING to ask William Eisner how his Milwaukee-based ad company planned to get Steve Forbes elected president, Eisner gave them a lecture on Mrs. Paul's Fish Sticks. Eisner specializes in rebranding products that have drifted off the penumbra of public attention. And after stunning the Republican establishment by running strong in the early 1996 primaries, Steve Forbes is such a product. Faced with the George Bush juggernaut, Forbes finds that renegade candidates can't expect to hold enthusiasts from one leap year to the next. Only 5 percent of Republicans say they want Forbes as their nominee--and ...

INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF CHINA’S ACQUISITION OF U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS INFORMATION Chinese strategic nuclear efforts have focused on developing and deploying a survivable long-range missile force that can hold a significant portion of the U.S. and Russian populations at risk in a retaliatory strike. By at least the late 1970s the Chinese launched an ambitious collection program focused on the U.S., including its national laboratories, to acquire nuclear weapons technologies. By the 1980s China recognized that its second strike capability might be in jeop-ardy unless its force became more survivable. This probably prompted the Chinese to heighten their interest ...

China is making final preparations to test fire a new mobile intercontinental ballistic missile that the CIA believes will incorporate stolen U.S. missile and warhead secrets, The Washington Times has learned. Preparations for the launch of the road-mobile DF-31 -- which could take place as early as next week -- were spotted by U.S. spy satellites at Wuzhai in central China and reported in classified U.S. intelligence reports earlier this month, said U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the reports. "They are getting ready for a launch," one official said. The official said one U.S. intelligence agency assessed the DF-31 test ...

Some of our worst fears are happening today in this, the land of free, and home of the brave. Only a few years ago, we could never imagine our federal government becomig such a threat to our liberty as it has today. Yet, We The People are clearly under attack. Our rights and liberties are being taken away with each passing day. It seems that either people are asleep, or they have simply given up. But, some of us still long for the liberties we once celelbrated before the advent of Big GOvernment. Lets celebrate this 4th of July ...

NEAL TRAVIS' NEW YORK AL GORE SET TO TEST L.I. WATER$ VICE PRESIDENT Al Gore isn't waiting any longer for Bill and Hillary Clinton to firm up their summer vacation plans. The man who would be president is heading for the Hamptons, whether or not Hillary and Bill are holidaying there. I understand Gore will hit the heavy-money East End early in August. So far, he's scheduled to attend a big party in Sag Harbor thrown for him by Alma Brown, widow of controversial Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who died in a European plane crash. Gore has also committed to ...

WASHINGTON (June 27) - Senators reacted bitterly Sunday to a report the Clinton White House knew of Chinese nuclear espionage earlier than it has acknowledged. "That really shouldn't go on," said GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who plans to run for president. "I'm sick of it." Sen. John McCain of Arizona, another GOP presidential aspirant, accused the administration of covering up and "misconduct." Even a Clinton supporter, Sen. Joe Lieberman, accused the White House of ineptitude because it apparently knew of security problems in the country's nuclear weapons laboratories a full two years before President Clinton was told. "Looking ...

BRADLEY'S N.Y. SURGE 'A MAJOR PROBLEM FOR GORE' By FREDRIC U. DICKER BILL BRADLEY has made "major inroads" among New York Democrats as he seeks to challenge Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination. That's the explosive assessment of several key state Democrats, who say the former U.S. senator from New Jersey has surprised them with his early successes in lining up support for next March's New York primary. "Let's just say this points to a major problem for Al Gore and his campaign in New York," said a political aide to one of the state's best known ...

PREZ PUSHES MEDICARE RX PLAN By DEBORAH ORIN President Clinton's aides yesterday pushed for his plan to give seniors prescription drug coverage via Medicare - but Republicans said the plan will cost too much and will cover some folks who don't need it. At issue is how to use the Uncle Sam surplus - Republicans want more of the money to go for tax cuts like ending the marriage penalty, reducing capital-gains taxes and phasing out estate taxes. Clinton Health Secretary Donna Shalala insisted on CBS that the prescription drug plan "will not be as generous as people think" and ...

TOP SENATORS BLAST CLINTON OVER CHINA SPY 'COVER-UP' By DEBORAH ORIN A key lawmaker yesterday accused President Clinton's team of a "cover-up" in the wake of revelations that the White House was first told of China's nuclear spying in 1995 - but did nothing about it. The latest revelation by The New York Times that the first tipoff came in 1995 also raised new doubts about the truthfulness of Clinton's claim earlier this year that no one told him of any suspicions of such spying. "A scandal is there, the revelations of Chinese spying, and then starts the cover-up and ...

BUCHANAN WARNS OF GOP ABORTION RIFT By DEBORAH ORIN Right-wing firebrand Pat Buchanan yesterday predicted a "severe crisis" in the GOP if the nominee is George W. Bush and he picks a pro-choice veep - but downplayed the chances of launching a third party. "At that point, you'd probably be too late to do it," Buchanan said, referring to the prospect that right-to-life forces would lose the battle at the August 2000 GOP convention and then launch a third party. But Buchanan - who is way behind Bush in polls in the first primary state of New Hampshire - also ...

PREZ MAY BE MULLING SENATE BID By DEBORAH ORIN Just call them Mr. and Mrs. Senator. There's a new report President Clinton may be eyeing a Senate race of his own as he comes to the Big Apple today to raise campaign cash for Senate wannabes like wife Hillary. Old pals are talking up the idea Clinton may run for the U.S. Senate from Arkansas in 2002 - and one person who raised it with Clinton said his reaction was "noncommittal but interested," the New Yorker magazine says. That raises the prospect of the Clintons trying to make history as ...

Nigel Kennedy shuffled on to a Belgrade stage and into controversy last night when he became the first international celebrity to perform in Yugoslavia since its war with Nato and said ordinary Serbs had done nothing to provoke bombing. State media hailed the violinist for making the visit in spite of friends' warnings that it would be twisted into a propaganda victory by Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic's regime. Several members of the government were among the 4,000-strong audience, including Milan Milutinovic, the Serbian president. They tried to enter the backstage area to meet Kennedy but were prevented by his staff ...

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For Editorial and Discussion use only: U.S. suspects stolen data key to China missileBy Bill GertzTHE WASHINGTON TIMEShina is making final preparations to test fire a new mobile intercontinental ballistic missile that the CIA believes will incorporate stolen U.S. missile and warhead secrets, The Washington Times has learned.     Preparations for the launch of the road-mobile DF-31 -- which could take place as early as next week -- were spotted by U.S. spy satellites at Wuzhai in central China and reported in classified U.S. intelligence reports earlier this month, said U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the reports.     "They are getting ready for a ...

      Treason is the Reason Rally DATE: Saturday, July 24, 1999 PLACE AND TIME: Rally 12 noon - 2:30 pm Dinner (and dancing) 6:00 pm - 12:00 pm TREASON IS THE REASON RALLY: Lafayette Park technology to Communist China. The peaceful protest will include attendees moving from Lafayette Park to the White House sidewalk and Pennsylvania Avenue. TREASON IS THE REASON DINNER: Marriott Crystal Gateway RALLY AND DINNER SPEAKERS: Sean Hannity (emcee), Larry Klayman, Tom Fitton, Ambassador Alan Keyes, Blanquita Cullum, plus several surprise guests and experts on the technology transfers. 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, VA 22202 Phone: ...