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Militia mob stones UN poll post AGENCIES in Dili and Jakarta A mob of about 100 pro-Indonesian militia stoned a United Nations post in East Timor yesterday, injuring several people including a district electoral officer. It was the first violence against international officials supervising the planned August referendum on the troubled territory's future. The UN Assistance Mission in East Timor (Unamet) said in a statement: "One Unamet staff member, a woman district electoral officer of South African nationality, suffered a minor injury to her leg and several East Timorese suffered head and other injuries." Most of the 30 UN workers ...

MEXICO CITY — Gunmen shot dead two members of the elite presidential guard and wounded one other on Tuesday in an ambush in Mexico City that stunned a nation still reeling from the killing of a popular TV personality. At least six unidentified gunmen jumped out of two cars and opened fire on the white sedan carrying the victims, Mauricio Tornero, chief of Mexico City's investigative police told a news conference. The guards returned fire, wounding one of the gunmen. The ambush occurred when the guards pulled up at a red light on a busy street three blocks from ...

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED to People For the American Way (PAW) in Milwaukee last month. They came to town determined to defeat a pro-voucher slate running for the local school board. But they were so obsessed with the notion that somewhere, someone might be sending a child to a religious school with tax dollars that they completely misread the mood of the people. Their kickoff rally, on which they spent nearly $20,000, attracted no more than 150 people. "And it all went downhill from here," says John Gardner, a pro-voucher school-board incumbent PAW targeted for defeat. On the assumption that ...

Zhu told to explain debacle over US Premier Zhu Rongji has come under pressure from a group of conservative deputies who want him to appear before the NPC's Foreign Affairs Committee to explain the downturn in relations with the United States. Mr Zhu has also been criticised for policies ranging from enterprise reform to China's effort to join the World Trade Organisation. Since former premier Li Peng became NPC chairman last year, the legislature has been more aggressive in asking ministers to account for policies, particularly those deemed unsatisfactory. "Conservative NPC members want an explanation on why the US ...

 If you want to stop Frau Browner and her storm troopers in your state, here's how we're doing it here. The point is to file suit at the local level.   			AMBUSHING THE REGULATORS   This is about Kentucky and what Kentuckians have done and are doing to stem the rising tide of government regulations that intrude into our daily lives at an ever-increasing pace. The key here is a horrible word called "apathy". An apathetic person is inevitably a victim, a person who cannot be saved and doesn't care. So, job one is to convert apathy to outrage, ...

It is becoming downright spooky. One day he's there, and the next day he's not, but now it looks as if he and the missus may be around forever. Clinton is reportedly thinking about running for the Senate from Arkansas, while Hillary, according to Dick Morris, will take the bags of cash she's been collecting for a Senate campaign in New York, and spend them on a campaign in Illinois, instead. And if things work out there, she runs for president in 2008. The Clintons won't go away. During the Balkan bombings, however, he, at least, seemed to go ...

BELGRADE, June 28 (AFP) - The situation in Kosovo is catastrophic, Serb opposition leader Vuk Draskovic said Tuesday, and blamed the leading world powers for the problems. "It is false to say that KFOR does not have the strength to prevent the expulsion of Serbs. If that were the case, it would be its duty to call on our security forces to help it stop these expulsions," the head of the Serb Renewal Movement (SPO) said, according to the Beta agency. Draskovic said that "the situation in Kosovo is catastrophic and could serve as the basis of charges brought against ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Prospective Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun actively house hunting in New York City and its politically crucial suburbs. On Monday, the first lady took time away from fund raising with her husband in New York City to look at some properties. Daughter Chelsea accompanied the first lady. "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." Berry said she had no details beyond that about where and what Mrs. Clinton may have ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A conservative group alleged Tuesday that Hillary Rodham Clinton is misusing taxpayer funds for ``personal political benefit'' as she explores a campaign for a Senate seat from New York. ``We will be seeking appropriate remedies which may include the return of the money for the U.S. taxpayer and which would also include other types of action to prevent this from happening in the future,'' said Larry Klayman, chairman and general counsel for the Washington, D.C.-based Judicial Watch. A spokeswoman for Mrs. Clinton said the first lady had followed requirements set by the Federal Elections Commission. ...

US drugs 'dumped' in Kosovo FROM DAMIAN WHITWORTH IN WASHINGTON AS MUCH as half of emergency drug shipments to Kosovo will go unused because US firms, which get tax breaks on what they give, are dumping unsuitable drugs, the World Health Organisation said. Relief workers, desperate for antibiotics and other life-savers, have been dismayed to open boxes of chap sticks, haemorrhoid ointment and anti-smoking inhalers. The problem arises, according to critics in relief agencies, from the system of offering American companies twice the normal tax deductions when they help a humanitarian effort. Warehouses are then emptied of products that are ...

The nuclear power industry, aiming to allay public fears of power outages and radiation leaks, has stepped up efforts to make sure plants are not vulnerable to the year 2000 computer bug. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will release Wednesday a report on exactly how ready each of the nation's 103 nuclear power reactors are for the millennium date change. Nuclear reactors account for about 20 percent of all U.S. power generation. The millennium problem arises because many older computers record dates using only the last two digits of the year. If left uncorrected, such systems could treat the ...

POCATELLO- Teachers who filed a grievance with the Pocatello School District after the school board refused to expel two Hawthorne Junior High School students for bringing weapons to school have decided to move the issue to arbitration.Allen Andersen, Idaho Education Association region director, said Monday that Superintendent David Peck has denied the grievance."We met with the faculty this afternoon, and they've decided to request a move to arbitration."Andersen said the teachers must get permission from the Pocatello Education Association's executive committee because it could cost as much as $1500 to $2000 for one day of arbitration.Because most executive committe members ...

While watching Horendous Rivera I just saw Bob Woodward say that a White House Attorney committed perjury while testifying to Judicial Watch! Jane Sherburne is her name the White House will be frying her ass soon.

The Serbs: New Flood of Refugees, 75,000 Serbs, Strains Aid Resources June 29, 1999 New Flood of Refugees, 75,000 Serbs, Strains Aid Resources Related Article Aid: Among U.S. Donations, Tons of Worthless Drugs Forum Join a Discussion on Settlement in Kosovo By BLAINE HARDEN ELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Fearing vengeance from returning Kosovo Albanians, about a quarter of the Serbs in Kosovo -- more than 75,000 -- have fled the province in the 18 days since Serbian forces began pulling out of the province, according to officials from the Yugoslav Red Cross. Those officials said they were running short of ...

Wednesday, 30 June 1999 0:31 (GMT) (UPI Focus) U.S. reassures Turkey on pipeline By MARTIN SIEFF UPI National Security Affairs Editor WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) - U.S. policymakers have moved to reassure the Turkish government they still are committed to construction of a pipeline from Baku in Azerbaijan across Turkey to the Mediterranean Sea. Earlier this month, the Clinton administration authorized a feasibility study by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency on the possibility of building an oil pipeline across the Balkans from the port of Burgos in Bulgaria across Macedonia and Albania to the Mediterranean. Reports of this study ...

ANCPR News Release ANOTHER MISGUIDED GOVERNMENT PROGRAM HHS LAUNCHES PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN ENLISTING HELP OF AD COUNCIL, OGILVY AND MATHER The Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a propaganda campaign called 'Be Their Dad' in an attempt to support more of their misguided interference in family life. "HHS' 'Be Their Dad' is the ultimate in hypocrisy," noted Lowell Jaks, Director of the Alliance for Non-Custodial Parents' Rights. "They're telling fathers to "be their dad" at the same time as they are increasing child support fines and penalties aimed a noncustodial parents, which are primarily fathers. Child support ...

Enter Stage Right's Conservative Site of the Day for Conservative Site of the Day for June 28, 1999 HERE NORFED Democrats? For the Second Amendment? Isn't that an oxymoron? While the modern Democratic Party leadership tends to be anti-gun, a growing number of people are realizing that gun ownership is an important right of all law-abiding Americans. "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government,no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more ...

Anticipated Floor Schedule: The House Will Meet at 10:00 a.m. for Legislative Business Last Vote Expected: 6-7:00 p.m. * One Minutes * H.R. 1218 - Child Custody Protection Act (Closed Rule, Two Hours of General Debate) * H.R. 66 - To Preserve the Cultural Resources of the Route 66 Corridor and to Authorize the Secretary of the Interior to Provide Assistance (Open Rule, One Hour of General Debate) * H.R. 791 - Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail Study Act of 1999 (Open Rule, One Hour of General Debate) * H.R. 592 - To Redesignate Great Kills Park in the ...

A 20-year-old mother who's accused of leaving her 15-month-old daughter in a car after a night of drinking has been charged with felony child endangerment in the baby's death. Carolina Ayala of Temecula appeared to be crying as she made her first court appearance today in Riverside. She did not enter a plea. Riverside County Sheriff's investigators say Ayala admitted she had been out drinking with friends, then came home Saturday morning and went into the house to sleep without taking her daughter, Krystal Dominguez, out of the infant seat. Ayala didn't remember the baby until about four hours later. ...

Tonight's show is a joke! The socialist and have taken over tonight's show and won't let Ollie and his guest get one word in. Barney constantly butts in while when he is talking he tells the others to shut up an let him talk. This guy is a JERK!