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Anthrax Vaccine Could Be Dangerous SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A high-ranking military leader has acknowledged that the mandatory anthrax vaccination for American troops can be potentially dangerous, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported today. Citing military documents, the paper reported Army Secretary Louis Caldera agreed in September that the government would accept the burden of potential liability claims by service members against the vaccine's manufacturer. According to a memo signed by Caldera, the vaccine ``involves unusually hazardous risks associated with the potential for adverse reactions in some recipients and the possibility that the desired immunological effect will not be obtained by ...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese paratroopers with motorized hang gliders and high-tech gear recently staged mock battles on icy mountains in Tibet, state media said Tuesday. The training exercise on a corner of the Tibetan plateau shows China's military has "the ability to carry out an airborne mission in a region with complicated geological conditions,'' the Xinhua News Agency quoted an unidentified military spokesman as saying. Despite low visibility due to rain, all paratroopers hit their targeted landing zones and fought mock battles in gorges, on snow-covered mountains and in swampy areas in Sichuan province's Aba prefecture, Xinhua said. The report ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Consumer confidence rose in June to its highest level in more than 30 years, signaling even stronger economic growth ahead, the Conference Board reported today. The rise in the index to 138.4 in June from a revised 137.7 in May was the eighth consecutive monthly increase. The figures were released as Federal Reserve policy-makers were beginning a two-day meeting in Washington, where they were widely expected to boost interest rates in a bid to cool off the economy and prevent inflation from rekindling.

Local publisher Steve Rose recently constructed a list off 22 questions designed to ferret out the right wing extremists among us. We respond by posing 22 or so questions of our own--and ask for more from our friends. Our questions are designed not to smoke out extreme left wingers like say a Lenin, a Mao, or, yes, a Hitler. Those are too easy. We are looking here for the contemporary variety of incoherent crypto-liberals now passing themselves off as "moderates" or, if daring, "progressives." You know you are one if you believe that: That evil prude Ken Starr got everything ...

Local publisher Steve Rose recently constructed a list off 22 questions designed to ferret out the right wing extremists among us. We respond by posing 22 or so questions of our own--and ask for more from our friends. Our questions are designed not to smoke out extreme left wingers like say a Lenin, a Mao, or, yes, a Hitler. Those are too easy. We are looking here for the contemporary variety of incoherent crypto-liberals now passing themselves off as "moderates" or, if daring, "progressives." You know you are one if you believe that: That evil prude Ken Starr got everything ...

Shrub asked the question to Clinton::: when will you get the troops out of Kosovo? I don't believe Clinton will do it, so the troops will be there at turnover on 20 Jan 2001, and the real question becomes::: when will Bush get the troops out of Kosovo?

MOSCOW, Jun 29, 1999 -- (Reuters) Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin gave the go-ahead on Monday for discussions with Iran on building three nuclear power plants in that country, Interfax news agency said. It said the Atomic Energy Ministry had made the proposal but did not say when the talks might start. Officials were not immediately available for comment. Russia is already building a nuclear reactor for Iran in the Gulf port of Bushehr in a deal worth $800 million. The United States and Israel have often urged Russia to suspend nuclear cooperation with Iran, fearing that Tehran might ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth, who campaigned on family values and later admitted having a long-term affair with a married man, is engaged to a man prominent in the Sagebrush Rebellion against federal land policies. No date was set for a wedding with Wayne Hage of Tonopah, Nev. ``Helen's really excited, being engaged,'' campaign spokesman Graham Paterson said late Monday. ``It's for certain.'' Chenoweth, 61, has earned a national reputation for her ardent stance against federal control of land and resources in the West. She has been an eminent spokeswoman for the Sagebrush Rebellion and its ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth, who campaigned on family values and later admitted having a long-term affair with a married man, is engaged to a man prominent in the Sagebrush Rebellion against federal land policies. No date was set for a wedding with Wayne Hage of Tonopah, Nev. "Helen's really excited, being engaged,'' campaign spokesman Graham Paterson said late Monday. "It's for certain.'' Chenoweth, 61, has earned a national reputation for her ardent stance against federal control of land and resources in the West. She has been an eminent spokeswoman for the Sagebrush Rebellion and its supporters. ...

Bush pulls far ahead of rivals By Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Texas Gov. George W. Bush is approaching anointed status as the 2000 Republican presidential nominee and continues to be the favorite in the general election, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows. At the same time, President Clinton, out of the shadow of impeachment and past the worst of the Kosovo crisis, seems to be judged more harshly. Also, Vice President Gore continues to struggle to get his presidential campaign running smoothly. After making much-awaited campaign trips to Iowa and New Hampshire this month, Bush has pulled far ahead ...

Thomas Jefferson, in his later years, spent much of his time, energy and resources building the University of Virginia because he believed that the nation he helped form could not preserve its freedom unless its citizens, its voters, were informed and educated. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." To provide for the continuing education of voters, the founding fathers included freedom of the press in the very first of the Bill of Rights Amendments. Benjamin Franklin, who was by trade a printer, wrote, ...

Clintons in the Senate: Can’t get enough or enough is enough? Hillary Rodham Clinton is weighing a Senate run, and now sources say the President may run in Arkansas. Do you want the Clintons in the Senate? 2029 responses Yes. I can't get enough - they've been great. 6% No. Enough is enough. 94%

No one at all can doubt that what has transpired in Kosovo as a result both of Slobodan Milosevic's brutality and the NATO response has made matters a good deal worse than they were before the bombing. The cost in human suffering on all sides has been dreadful, and whether it is in the tragedy of the refugees or the destruction of Yugoslavia, no simple reckoning or remedy will be available for at least a generation, perhaps longer. As any displaced and dispossessed person can testify, there is no such thing as a genuine, uncomplicated return to one's home; nor ...

June 29 — Some people in the art world are outraged that Hillary Rodham Clinton solicited some artists’ work for “permanent display” in the White House and now plans to turn the pieces over to the Clinton Library. IN 1993, HILLARY Clinton’s social secretary, Ann Stock, approached more than 70 of the country’s top artisans, asking them to donate a specific piece or series of pieces for a collection that would become the first permanent White House Crafts Collection. The pieces would form part of a traveling exhibit, Stock told the artisans, and then, unless the artists wanted them ...

Administration Says Threats MakeMissile Defense More Imperative 8.08 a.m. ET (1208 GMT) June 29, 1999 By Tom Raum   WASHINGTON — 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   "Cold war disciplines are gone. Technology is more widely available," John Holum, acting undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs, told ...

The Life and Death of Rex Moncus For 18 years, Rex Moncus led an exemplary, All-American life. His chilling death both horrified and inspired his family, his friends and an entire community. BYLINE: Mark Bradley, Staff SOURCE: Adairsville BODY: For two nights after Rex Moncus died, Eddie Chastain went to the little ballpark by the railroad tracks and turned on the stadium lights. He did it without quite knowing why, did it because he had to do something. Chastain is the baseball coach at Adairsville High. For three years, Rex Moncus was his catcher, and Chastain wasn't ready to let ...

For Education and Discussion. Not for Commercial use. No jail in decades-old deaths "...I told Art that (the baby) was sound asleep a minute ago, but I knew that wasn't true." Decades after smothering eight of her babies, 70-year-old Marie Noe yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering the infants - and was immediately placed under house arrest as part of a plea bargain that does not require her to serve a day in prison. Leaning on a wooden cane, with an electronic monitoring bracelet on her ankle, the white-haired Noe told a judge, "Yes, sir" in a stoic voice when asked ...

The Clinton administration hopes to have an agreement with Russia by next June on modification of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that would permit the United States to go ahead with a limited national missile defense system, a senior State Department official said yesterday. John D. Holum, President Clinton's nominee to be undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs, told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee that "sometime in the next weeks or perhaps months," the Pentagon will decide what a national missile defense against a limited attack would look like. Once that decision on the "architecture" ...

VRBNICA, Serbia, Jun 29, 1999 -- (Reuters) The head of the German army told Reuters Monday that Russian forces would arrive in his zone of Kosovo soon to help keep the peace in the province. "An advance party will come tomorrow or so," Bundeswehr Inspector-General Hans-Peter von Kirchbach said in an interview at the Kosovo border with Albania, where a steady flow of refugees returning to the shattered Yugoslav province continues. "They were part of the diplomatic solution so they should also be part of the military solution," he added, playing down fears that the arrival of the Russians ...