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PRISTINA, June 26 - When the NATO troops entered Kosovo on June 11, we were told by the likes of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair that they were their to ensure security of all civilians - Serb and Albanian alike. It must have been a delayed reaction April Fools Day joke. In the last 24 hours alone, 14 Serb civilians and one Italian soldier were killed, allegedly by the KLA terrorists, the Macedonian News Agency has reported. Want to know what it is like to be an unarmed and harmless Serb in Kosovo there days? Here's is an excerpt ...

Remember that photo purportedly taken while Bill and Hill were on vacation, with the two of them dancing on the beach, etc. The White House made a big stink about it being taken, invasion of privacy and all,in order to turn it into a story? If anyone still has that image can you post it here? Thanks.

Buchanan Warns of GOP Abortion Rift 7.57 a.m. ET (1157 GMT) June 28, 1999 By Deborah Orin Right-wing firebrand Pat Buchanan Sunday 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. Michael Caulfield/AP Buchanan attempts to make an unidentified youngster laugh during a picnic fund-raiser "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 ...

Most doubt Y2K crisis, but many prepare By Andrew Conte, Post staff reporter Long before Vince Wesley ever heard about Y2K, he watched computers bring his own world to a crashing end. A professional sign painter who hand-lettered office presentations for the Procter & Gamble Co. and other Cincinnati firms, the 68-year-old man literally lost his livelihood to the computer. New, inexpensive graphics programs meant executives could make their own signs ''much better, quicker, cheaper,'' Wesley said. Compared to that, the potential computer glitch known as Y2K seems like a minor headache. Wesley and his wife figure the computer bug ...

U.S. suspects stolen data key to China missile By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES 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," ...

Note: This Forecast should be read in conjunction with Stratfor's Decade Forecast prepared in 1995 (http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/decade.asp), its 1999 Annual Forecast (http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/1999.asp) and its Second Quarter, 1999 Forecast (http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/2q1999.asp) Stratfor's organizing theme for its 1999 Annual Forecast is found in the title: "A New and Dangerous World." That concept remains valid and the fundamental trends identified within that theme remain intact. The most important trend identified in that forecast has now become manifest. We wrote that "Russia and China will be moving into a closer, primarily anti-American alliance in 1999." That process is the most important global trend today. It ...

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT IS the most controversial First Lady in United States history. Her journey to greatness, her voyage out beyond the confines of good wife and devoted mother, involved determination and amazing courage. It also involved one of history’s most unique partnerships. Franklin Delano Roosevelt admired his wife, appreciated her strengths, and depended on her integrity.        ER and FDR had different priorities, occasionally competing goals, and often disagreed. Connected by trust, loyalty, and love, their partnership survived marital pain and affairs of the heart. They enjoyed different entertainments, and preferred different people. They offered different advice to ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1999 22:39:22 ET XXXXX WASHINGTON DC PLANNING FOR 'MASSIVE' Y2K MOBILIZATION OF EMERGENCY PERSONNEL The District of Columbia government, recognizing that its year 2000 repair program likely will not be completed on time, is feverishly planning for a "massive New Year's Eve mobilization of emergency personnel and other staff to ensure critical city services are not interrupted if computer systems fail," the WASHINGTON POST is reporting in a Page One scare story on Monday. Cmdr. David McDonald, the supervisor of police Y2K planning tells the POST: "We want to reassure the residents and ...

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. ...

WASHINGTON -- Here's an item from U.S. News and World Report: "President Clinton has been pondering Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel's plea to remember the psychological counseling needs of returning Kosovo refugees. Wiesel told Clinton many children were in denial over the loss of home and family. The president is considering sending American counselors to Kosovo as part of an overall relief effort." Picture the Kosovo airlift: Hundreds of can-do American grief counselors arrive in war-torn Kosovo, crying: "Let the healing begin!" How do you say "get in touch with your feelings" in Albanian? The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton announced a new proposal Monday for buttressing Social Security and Medicare, while paying down the national debt, based on new White House projections that budget surpluses will be more than $1 trillion bigger over the next 15 years than were envisioned earlier this year. The budget surplus for the current year was $99 billion, Clinton said. Using the surplus to pay down the national debt and to shore up the retirement program will mean that the national debt will be entirely wiped out by the year 2015, Clinton said. Part of the surplus should also ...

Thank you fellow republicans for supporting me in the Zamboni Driver of the year contest. I am very greatful to have such a great group of people supporting me in this contest. If you have not had a chance to cast your vote the URL is www.zamboni.com and please vote for Gage Mueller. The Zamboni is the machine that resurfaces the ice at Hockey games. And I have been told that this is the best forum ever with the most dedicated members. So I can't wait to see what this place will look like once there is a real president ...

Under the plea deal, Hubbell will admit his guilt to one felony count of lying in connection with the Castle Grande development in Arkansas and one misdemeanor count in connection with the tax case, the sources said. The plea deal ended the possibility that Mrs. Clinton, who is considering running for the U.S. Senate in New York, would be called as a witness at Hubbell's trial, which had been scheduled to start in August. The plea deal also resolved Starr's only remaining cases, although he is required by law to submit a final report about his nearly five-year and ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE United States technology imports susceptible to 15 day Y2K delay Information technology and Telecommunications equipment may be delayed due to Y2K transportation and infrastructure issues in the 15 key supplier countries to the United States. June 26, 1999 -- The 15 largest suppliers of U.S. information technology and telecommunications equipment are located in countries that are behind in Y2K preparations and fixes. The countries represented below exported $113.9 billion in IT and telecoms equipment to the US in 1998. The countries were analysed for Y2K failure scenarios. The countries were then placed on a damage estimate scale, ...

HOW DO YOU SPELL 'RELIEF'? In an apparent attempt to provoke the Chinese into new paroxysms of rage, the U.S. government is now claiming that two of the three Chinese journalists killed at their nation's Belgrade embassy were "spies, not journalists," according to the New York Times. "It is true they were not journalists," said an anonymous government official. "Two were intelligence agents." What a relief! And here we thought all the really dangerous Chinese spies were here in the United States, stealing nuclear secrets by the bushel-full. How reassuring to know that the real Chinese threat is centered in ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Long-range Russian bombers flew over the North Pole and test fired strategic missiles during recent military exercises, a defense official said Monday. The exercises involving Tu-95 and Tu-160 bombers were conducted last week as part of military exercises code named ``West 99,'' air force spokesman Col. Alexander Drobyshevsky was quoted as saying by the ITAR-Tass news agency. The planes made 15-hour flights which took them over the Atlantic before heading to the Arctic and crossing the North Pole, the spokesman said. Long-range missiles were test fired and hit targets in southern Russia, he said. The six ...

MOSCOW, Jun 28, 1999 -- (Reuters) President Boris Yeltsin discussed the situation in Yugoslavia with his defense minister on Monday and Russia sent more planeloads of equipment and supplies for its peacekeepers in Kosovo. "Now we must work out a very, very strict strategy for the future of Kosovo and Yugoslavia as a whole," Russian news agencies quoted Yeltsin as telling Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev. They gave no details. Russia strongly opposed NATO's recent bombing of Yugoslavia and wants to play an important role in the peacekeeping process, partly to ensure the safety of fellow Slav and Orthodox Christian ...

One day Elizabeth Dole is calling for more gun control, the next she's saying a ban on abortion shouldn't even be discussed, the one after that she's being cooed over by Rosie O'Donnell. You half expect an endorsement from Barbra Streisand. This is not a promising strategy for winning the Republican presidential nomination. So the assumption that Mrs. Dole is really running to be George W. Bush's vice-president has become a piece of cocktail-party wisdom. But it might make more sense for her to be Al Gore's running mate. No kidding. There's no doubt Mrs. Dole is running for ...

Two people were shot dead over Saturday night in the Kosovo capital Pristina and at least one of them had links to an international organisation operating in the province, officials said yesterday. The latest killings highlighted the vacuum created when Serb forces withdrew from Kosovo earlier this month, leaving the region without a civilian force to maintain law and order. Soldiers from the Kfor force are charged both with acting as military peacekeepers and with policing the province until a new Kosovo police force is up and running. A spokesman for British forces investigating the latest killings said the body ...

plea covers tax charges...will "cooperate"