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Published recently by the U.S. Congress, the Cox Report on Chinese intelligence activity in the U.S. is an eye-opener for the American public. Of course, this report couldn't disclose all the facts about Communist Chinese intelligence penetration inside American society, which began a long time ago and has become a full-scale spy attack against the most important institutions of the U.S. It is well known to specialists that Red China's intelligence services have been operating abroad very actively and carefully for a very long time and that they also have been extremely successful worldwide. Drawing upon an ancient tradition of ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: China Denies Embassy Bombing Victims Were Spies BEIJING, Jun 29, 1999 -- (Reuters) China denied on Tuesday a U.S. newspaper report that two of three Chinese citizens killed in the NATO bombing of Beijing's embassy in Belgrade last month were spies, not journalists. "The status of the three journalists are clear," a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said by telephone. "No matter what lies the U.S. media fabricate, it cannot exonerate the United States of responsibility for bombing the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia," the spokeswoman said. The New York Times reported last Friday that two of ...

Yet another angle on this sweetheart deal...To this article I added a great cartoon by Garner from Washington Times about Bubba's National Security... Convicted felon Webster L. Hubbell has signed a deal with independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr to avoid prison in exchange for admitting he lied about legal work he did for an Arkansas real estate project on which he worked with Hillary Rodham Clinton. The agreement, struck this week, raises the possibility that Mr. Hubbell's cooperation could result in charges against the first lady. Law enforcement sources said Mr. Hubbell will plead guilty to a felony count of ...

Hubbell To Plead Guilty in Ark. Case WASHINGTON (AP) -- After years of giving Kenneth Starr's office answers that investigators now regard as ``incomplete,'' longtime Clinton friend Webster Hubbell is getting ready to talk some more. The question is whether Hubbell's answers will be any more useful than the first set he gave Starr in 1995 after pleading guilty to stealing $400,000 from his law firm and its clients. Hubbell will plead guilty Wednesday to concealing legal work that he and Hillary Rodham Clinton performed on a fraudulent Arkansas land deal known as Castle Grande and evading taxes on ...

1747 GMT, 990628 – Russian Closure of Slatina May Reflect Deployment Problems Col. Nikolai Bragin, chief of the Russian airborne troops’ press service, announced on June 28 that Slatina Airport will be closed until July 3 for reconstruction and technical equipment. He added that the deployment of Russian peacekeepers to Kosovo has been suspended. The latter statement may help explain the former. Slatina has successfully received Russian and French aircraft, and Yugoslav MiGs have departed the airfield, making the argument that the airport is unfit for service difficult to accept. Thus, the closure of Slatina airport may not so much ...

Reflecting a subtle shift in the White House's thinking, Secretary of State Madeline Albright said NATO's intervention in Kosovo should not send a signal that the alliance will intervene in other conflicts. ``Some hope, and others fear, that Kosovo will be a precedent for similar interventions around the globe,'' Albright told the Council on Foreign Relations on Monday. ``I would caution against any such sweeping conclusions.'' Before the Kosovo crisis, the administration had pressed NATO members to consider expanding the defensive alliance's reach beyond Europe as a way of maintaining an important post-Cold War role in the world. But ...

I came across this a while back. I am posting it to show that even Judges can have fun with a case now and then. If you can follow all the legal terms, it is hilarious! 169 A.D.2d 254 572 N.Y.S.2d 672 Jeffrey M. STAMBOVSKY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Helen V. ACKLEY and Ellis Realty, Defendants-Respondents. Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department. July 18, 1991. [**674] [*255] William M. Stein, of counsel (Hood & Stein, attorneys), Haverstraw, for plaintiff-appellant. Andrew C. Bisulca, of counsel (Mann, Mann & Lewis, P.C., attorneys), Nyack, for defendant-respondent Helen V. Ackley. Jeffrey J. Ellis, of counsel (Quirk ...

Revised estimates of nuclear missile capability, particularly of North Korea and Iran, add new urgency to development of a national missile defense system, the Clinton administration' s top arms-control official said. " Cold war disciplines are gone. Technology is more widely available, " John Holum, acting undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs, told a Senate confirmation hearing. House Republican leaders were to rally on the steps of the Capitol today to applaud President Clinton' s signing of a GOP-sponsored bill committing the United States to a national ballistic missile defense against limited attack, as might ...

MORE LIES ABOUT CHINA When it comes to the growing China-nuclear espionage scandal, Bill Clinton has more shoes to drop than Imelda Marcos. And it's also becoming increasingly obvious that no one in this administration is prepared to tell the truth about the scandal - ever. It now turns out that top White House officials were told in 1995 - a year earlier than previously disclosed - that China had obtained significant U.S. nuclear secrets: specifically, design information about this country's most advanced nuclear warhead, the W-88. How significant was this leak? The Washington Times' Bill Gertz reported yesterday that ...

TAKE YOUR ARROGANT ACT ELSEWHERE By ANDREA PEYSER AT LEAST he's consistent. Bill Clinton runs for the U.S. Senate the same way he has sexual relations: If you don't catch him in the act, in a strictly legal sense, the president feels absolutely no compunction against denying what he's in the midst of doing. It was 1,000 degrees on the sidewalk in Manhattan yesterday, and the heat-addled city ground to a halt. Through much of Midtown, throughout much of the infernal day, you couldn't walk, drive or perspire in place without being shooed by a man in uniform - perhaps ...

NITA STILL GETTING BURNED BY HILL By MEREDITH BERKMAN IF I were Nita Lowey, I'd keep a close watch on my husband. Noble Nita - who knows better than anyone that Hamlet Hillary plays by her own rules - has just lost her respected chief of staff to the First Lady's nascent Senate campaign. The next thing you know, Clinton will demand that Lowey turn over her loving lawyer spouse and their spacious Westchester home. It's true that losing a faithful foot soldier, especially to a high- profile candidate, connotes a certain kind of status in the political world. (In ...

RUDY 'THE WIMP' GIULIANI? By MICHAEL MEYERS EVERYONE figured, until now, that we had a mayor who was a straight talker, who took on all adversaries with the courage of his convictions. But, now, there are telltale signs that Rudy W. Giuliani is wimping out. Rudy W. (for "Wimpish") Giuliani isn't telling it like it is these days. How else to explain his waffling and getting flustered at last week's press conference? The annoying questions concerned his banning the use of the Brooklyn Navy Yard by Talk magazine, because its premiere issue is to feature on its cover none other ...

Dear TurnCoat, If you turn your back on us, you had better be ready to use welfare to buy you some votes now, and in the future when you will need all the help you can get.

Clinton given the cold shoulder as lame duck leader By Hugo Gurdon in Washington PRESIDENT CLINTON has become the lamest of lame ducks and Washington is turning its back on him to concentrate on the 2000 election. Old scandal and a new political campaign have left the Clinton White House smelling of decay. Newspapers are openly bored by the man who still has 18 months to go behind the desk in the Oval Office.President Clinton: 'hates being on the sidelines' The Washington Post wrote: "Zzzzzzzzz," mocking Mr Clinton's performance at a press conference last week. The President was "limp, reflective, ...

The movement that has banished smoking from California workplaces and bars is spreading to the last bastion of freedom for some smokers -- their own apartments or condominiums. Nonsmokers in the Bay Area are complaining to county health agencies that second-hand smoke from neighbors' units penetrates into their homes via vents and windows and causes health problems, such as asthma, allergies or headaches. County health officials are responding by looking at ways to restrict smoking in multiunit dwellings. -- In Solano County, officials are urging landlords to declare part or all of their apartment complexes smoke-free. -- In Napa ...

BRADLEY HAS $11M IN BASKET By DEBORAH ORIN Washington Bureau ChiefDemocratic 2000 hopeful Bill Bradley tomorrow will report raising about $11 million so far this year, aides said yesterday - another sign the ex-Knick could be Al Gore's worst nightmare. That kind of money puts Bradley in sight of Gore, whose aides say he'll report raising $15 million to $18 million. Independent analysts say Bradley's fund-raising is particularly impressive against an incumbent vice president. "Quickness always beats bulk," Bradley quipped yesterday to reporters in New York. Bradley said he'd love to see hoop superstar Michael Jordan stump for him. But ...

HUBBELL READY TO PLEAD GUILTY IN SHADY ARK. LAND SCHEME By MARILYN RAUBER and FREDRIC U. DICKER Hillary Clinton's ex-law partner has cut a plea deal with prosecutor Kenneth Starr, sources said yesterday - ending the risk that the First Lady could be called to testify about her role in a shady Arkansas land deal. Webster Hubbell's trial had been set for Aug. 9, raising the embarrassing prospect of the First Lady being dragged into court to testify about her role in allegedly drafting deceptive documents in the Castle Grande deal just as she's launching a Senate campaign. Hubbell is ...

HILL DUMPS BILL TO HOUSE HUNT By ROBERT HARDT Jr., DEBORAH ORIN and MARILYN RAUBER First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton came to the Big Apple yesterday - but opted to go house-hunting for her Senate race and snubbed a fat-cat fund-raiser where she was slated to co-star with her husband. "She took the opportunity to go look at some houses," Marsha Berry, a spokeswoman for the First Lady, said. "She looked at some in the city and some in the environs." Mrs. Clinton's surprise absence from the joint event with her husband came as political circles buzzed over talk the ...

THE WAR BETWEEN BILL AND AL By DICK MORRIS AL Gore needs to watch his back. Bill Clinton is furious at him. Livid. And why? Because Al Gore, the ever-faithful lieutenant who passionately defended the president throughout the entire Monica Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment process, has overtly tried to put some distance between himself and the president. What apparently set Clinton off was that, on the night before the official announcement of his presidential candidacy, Gore told reporters that the president's conduct had upset him and that it was "inexcusable." For the record, that makes Gore's opinion on ...

Serbs Forced Out of Yugoslav City By ELLEN KNICKMEYER .c The Associated Press PEC, Yugoslavia (AP) - Incense covering the acrid smell of smoke from the city below, Serb Orthodox Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic sought to fortify the remaining Serb flock in this city: a few dozen old men and women. Outside the 13th-century stone church, other white-haired Serbs bundled their belongings in blankets Monday or sat by their suitcases, waiting for the next NATO-guarded convoy that would take them out of Kosovo, and into exile. Women shrouded in black wept beside two fresh graves, dug within the safety of church ...