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The Navy is taking the first tentative steps that could eventually lead to sex integration of the sea service's last all-male citadel: nuclear-powered submarines. This summer, for the first time, the Navy is allowing female ROTC students to spend two nights aboard a ballistic-missile submarine with its 155-man crew. Previously, the female students were restricted to day trips. If that sign of coming integration isn't enough, Navy Secretary Richard Danzig this month seemed to chide the secretive and close-knit submarine community for operating "a white-male preserve." Comparing the submarine service to the mythical Greek figure Narcissus who fell in love ...

Washington(June 25)- Party Switchers. Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson today welcomed two more party switchers to the GOP. Boone County Sheriff Mike Helmig and Willie Mathis Jr., commonwealth attorney for the 54th Judicial District, both of Kentucky, today became the 413th and 414th elected Democrats to join the Republican Party since Bill Clinton was elected president."We are seven years into the Clinton-Gore administration, and Democrats at all levels of government continue to flee their party in impressive numbers," said Nicholson. "The shift of elected Democrats into the GOP demonstrates that Republican ideas are gaining strength across America.""This decision was ...

Nose size usually doesn't figure in the popularity of an adult film, but recently a passel of porn-film connoisseurs have been freezing the frames of one crudely made videotape to determine if the skin starlet with an unusually large proboscis is a prefame Streisand. Erlichman, her manager, says speculation about the poorly made and oft-duplicated skin flick first surfaced in the 1970s. The controversial flick is covered in a new book titled "Biggest Secrets." Author William Poundstone writes about it in a chapter of the William Morrow tome titled "Blue Movies of the Famous." The grainy quality of the ...

The title says it all. And asks it all. It also gives my answer: The Abominable Trent Lott goes or I find another party to vote for. With pleasure.

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Six years ago, we put in place a new economic strategy for the Information Age. We put our fiscal house in order, we invested in our people, we expanded trade in American goods and services. By making tough decisions, America has reaped rich rewards. We built the longest peacetime expansion in our history. Last week we learned that in the first three months of 1999, the economy grew at a 4.3 percent rate, with very low inflation. With record numbers of new homes being built, paychecks increasing, hundreds of thousands of young people getting new help ...

Bill Clinton is into his seventh year as President of the United States. He cannot be re-elected to that office, and he is not likely to run for another one. His impeachment and trial were carried out by people who, whatever their other shortcomings, cannot be accused of understating the case; but his acquittal was greeted with loud public approval. No one is going to try that again. And anyway, what would be the point? Clinton is the lamest of lame ducks. But there are currently three books about what a creep he is on the New York Times nonfiction ...

David Schuster has a different take on this story than ABC news, and that it spells trouble for Hillary.Whom do you believe?Nothing at Foxnews.com, yet.

In part one of this report, we present this 36-item list, titled, "If Y2K were solved…" IF Y2K WERE SOLVED… …the FAA would have tested all airport and en route radar control systems rather then just the Denver systems. …programmers wouldn't still be working on the problem. ….the federal government wouldn't be reluctant to hold a nationwide Y2K test day. …the sewer system in Los Angeles wouldn't have spilled several millions of gallons of raw sewage into the city streets during a recent Y2K test. …the G8 meetings would not have urged member countries to urgently raise awareness among their ...

He's the sheriff of NRA dreams, a lawman who's quick on the draw when it comes to issuing permits allowing citizens to pack pistols. Gary Nelson, sheriff of Otter Tail County, whipped out his pen and signed 762 conceal-and-carry gun permits last year. This year, he expects to issue more than 1,000 permits to residents who want to carry handguns. That's a lot of firepower for the sparsely populated county -- Fergus Falls is the county seat -- of 1,100 lakes in west central Minnesota. Under Minnesota law, sheriffs and police chiefs "may" issue the permits. Nelson uses a ...

Behind the Headlines June 28, 1999 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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Clinton today proposed buttressing Social Security and Medicare, using new White House projections that budget surpluses will be more than $1 trillion bigger over the next 15 years than were envisioned earlier. "Now we have a chance to do even more to use the fruits of our prosperity today to strengthen our prospects for tomorrow — indeed for tomorrows well into the 21st century,'' the president said. His plan included no dramatic increases in the targeted tax cuts he proposed earlier this year. But the president did not rule out considering deeper tax reductions in ...

In a recent conversation with columnist David Broder, former President Gerald R. Ford professed to be perplexed at my determination to defeat efforts in Congress to pile on more campaign finance regulations ("I don't understand why that fellow [McConnell] . . . is so adamant") [op-ed, June 16]. Reading the Supreme Court's 1976 decision, Buckley v. Valeo, which eviscerated the campaign finance "reforms" that President Ford signed into law in 1974, would foster an understanding of my stance and an appreciation of the First Amendment freedom at the heart of this debate. To make sense of the campaign finance ...

Hizbullah: Views and Concepts Introduction Freedom, right, justice and peace are essential values for any society to rise and develop. Freedom is the basis for this rise, while justice cannot be applied without right and peace is inaccessible with the exclusion of justice. Adopting and practicing these human values require commitment and credibility, for they make one impartible whole; freedom can not be enjoyed by one group and denied to another, right should not prevail here and be paralyzed there; if abated, justice turns into injustice; peace can not be achieved unless it is comprehensive. These values have been ...

Webster Hubbell Cuts Plea Deal Mrs. Clinton Escapes Witness Stand Wester Hubbell will admit to one felony count of lying about a failed Arkansas land development called Castle Grande and will plead guilty to one misdemeanor in a plea bargain worked out with Independent Counsel Ken Starr. (AP Photo) ABCNEWS.com W A S H I N G T O N, June 28 — ABCNEWS has learned Independent Counsel Ken Starr has reached a plea bargain agreement with Whitewater figure Webster Hubbell. The deal lets first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton avoid an embarrassing court appearance during the run-up to her ...

LONDON, JUN 27 (ZENIT).- New directives from the British Medical Association have come into force, giving doctors in Great Britain greater powers of decision in certain cases. Henceforth, doctors, surgeons, and specialists will be able to end the life of terminally ill patients. The new norms have sparked heated controversy and reopened the euthanasia debate, in spite of the fact that Michael Wilks, the president of the Association, has said, specifically, that "the intention is not to voluntarily put an end to patients' life but to verify if a particular therapy works." The doctors will be able to decide ...

Want the taste of a draft English ale but the convenience of a can?Tetley's English Ale has been rolled out in Florida in a can that imitates what happens when the bartender pulls a perfect pint.When opened, Tetley's cans trigger the release of nitrogen gas from a floating in-can device. Disarmingly, the company calls this sophisticated device a "widget."The released gas adds pressure without adding carbon dioxide, creating small bubbles and a creamy, long-lasting head."The beer has already generated a buzz of excitement among wholesalers and retailers in the initial markets who have sampled the brand," said Fred Grafenhain, marketing ...

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 ...

[Describing a meeting between Navy brass and the Senate Intelligence Committee after the Walker and Pelton spy cases became known] "...The Senators were furious. At a closed hearing, they lambasted Navy representatives for withholding the report for three years. William Cohen, a Republican from Maine, was one of the angriest lawmakers in the room. Cohen, who would become secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton, demanded to know who had written the report....Cohen wanted to know why the Navy failed to react to [the]conclusion that the Soviets probably had foreknowledge of the cable tap. He wanted to know why nobody ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A worker on a fishing boat has been charged with assault with a dead weapon -- a 20-pound tuna, police said Sunday. Anthony Scott Tucker, 37, was arrested and faces possible felony charges, police said. An unidentified 43-year-old fisherman was taken to the hospital for treatment for broken vertebrae and a concussion, Sgt. Don Claypool of the San Diego Harbor Police Department told Reuters. Tucker hit his customer with the tuna on the boat while they were counting and sorting the fish, said Claypool. Two weeks ...