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MOSCOW, June 30 (Itar-Tass) - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright may be dismissed already this summer for mistakes in the US policy regarding Yugoslavia, a Russian influential newspaper reported on Wednesday citing its sources in Washington. "In Washington they are talking that a certain reshuffle will take place in the State Department leadership before this autumn. /President Bill/ Clinton has reportedly found a worthy replacement to current Secretary of State Madeleine Albright", the Nezavisimaya Gazeta wrote. It said that although officially the USA continues to attribute to itself all the successes in solving the Kosovo crisis, "a different viewpoint ...

NAACP: Keep portrait down / 'The Civil War is over. It was lost' Wednesday, June 30, 1999 A month after Robert E. Lee's image was taken down from the Canal Walk's floodwall, the local and state NAACP announced they want it to stay down. "The Civil War is over. It was lost. The Confederates were found to be traitors to the United States," King Salim Khalfani, executive director of the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP, said after a news conference yesterday. "We're not in denial about history, but as an African person, when I see a portrait of Robert ...

ZBICA, Yugoslavia -- It seemed a strangely peaceful, pastoral spot, this mass grave, nestled in rolling hills of verdant farmland, the green brightened by splotches of other colors -- red poppies, purple thistles, white Queen Anne's lace and a half-dozen or more shades of yellow -- the only sound the chirping of songbirds. When a French forensic team working for the international war crimes tribunal arrived here at 8 a.m. Monday, they expected to find the bodies of about 160 Kosovo Albanians who other villagers said were killed by Serbian forces on March 28. There were none. The Serbs ...

UCK TORTURE CHAMBER FOUND? German KFOR peacekeepers in Prizren recently found what they suspect is a torture chamber used by the Kosova Liberation Army (UCK), the "Berliner Zeitung" reported on 28 June. Three Roma, who told peacekeepers that the UCK tortured them, took KFOR troops to the site. In New York, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on 26 June that there is evidence that UCK members have been involved in the rapes and murders of an unspecified number of Serbs and Roma. The report added that there is not enough evidence to suggest that the UCK leadership "orchestrated" ...

Montenegro is the junior partner in the Yugoslav Federation, but since the Serb pullout from Kosovo, there have been growing demands for independence. The conflict between the country's two centres of power is increasingly hostile as the battle for the last domino of Yugoslavia begins. Senior politicians from the pro-Western ruling party in Montenegro have told the BBC that the Serbian Government is plotting to undermine them. They say Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is planning to unleash his notorious paramilitaries in Montenegro - as he did in Kosovo - under the pretext of protecting Serb national interests there. At a ...

"Extremely fond of drawing up wills, Rhodes insisted that in all of them that his money be used to found 'a secret society... to carry out his scheme,' which was to be 'organized like Loyola's, supported by the accumulated wealth of those whose aspiration is a desire to do something,' so that eventually there would be 'between two and three thousand men in the prime of his life scattered all over the world, each one of whom would have had impressed upon his mind in the most susceptible period of his life the dream of the Founder, each one of ...

Homosexual activist James C. Hormel, his hand on a family Bible held by his male "partner," was sworn in yesterday as the ambassador to Luxembourg in an elaborate and festive ceremony at the State Department. In an unusual orchestrated spectacle, nine television cameras recorded the normally obscure swearing-in ceremony, attended by two senators and the secretary of state, who administered the oath to the first openly homosexual U.S. ambassador. The State Department normally bars reporters from such ceremonies. Before the service, several homosexual men greeted each other with kisses on the lips. When he was sworn in, the group of ...

In its July issue, George magazine asks Daisy Fuentes, host of America's Funniest Home Videos, to name the book she would make required White House reading if she were president. She replies: "Witness, by Whittaker Chambers, because it speaks against the evils of communism." (It finished at #24 in NR's best non-fiction books of the century.) Asked what she would outlaw: "Taxation." And asked to write the first headline of her administration: "President Fuentes Bombs Castro Out of Power."

STARI TRG, YUGOSLAVIA -- Albanian miners in the rocky, pine-covered hills of northern Kosovo say it wasn't politics, religion or even ethnicity that started the war with the Serbs. They say it was what lies deep in the ground under their homes: more lead and zinc than can be found anywhere else in Europe. "The Serbs started this war for economic reasons," said Smajl Tahiri, who began working in the Trepca mines when he was a teenager. "But we fought to liberate the country." Tahiri said he thinks liberation has come. Soon, he said, ethnic Albanians will take back Trepca ...

New York(AP) Pharmaceutical stocks soared Tuesday as Wall Street concluded President Clinton's plan to provide drug coverage to Medicare recipients will fail in Congress because it is too complex and vague. Although the proposal would increase sales of drugs, the drug industry is concerned it could lead to price controls that slice profits. "Investors are breathing a sigh of relief," said James Kenney an analyst with ABN AMRO. "They realize if Congress can't agree on something like gun control they don't see how they can for legislation to give drug benefits to the elderly." Analysts said the plan leaves to ...

http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- BILL CLINTON was running out of time. His presidency would expire in less than two years, and his most memorable legacy would be perverting the country. He’d need to do better than that. He’d need to find a war. His only experience with such a thing was protesting it, but now he required one, one with results. He thought hard. Eventually his thoughts led him to the Balkans. Madeleine Albright also was running out of time. This administration was her only chance. Never again would she be in a position powerful enough to impact so directly the course ...

TOP POLITICAL STORYBush favors ending quotas By Ralph Z. Hallow THE WASHINGTON TIMESIRVINE, Calif.eorge W. Bush said yesterday he opposes denying public schooling to the children of illegal immigrants but still wants to eliminate racial and ethnic quotas and preferences.     In the midst of his first foray into California as a Republican presidential hopeful, the Texas governor also said he would tell Hollywood executives that violence in movies is a cause of violence among young people. But, Mr. Bush added, so are alcohol and drug abuse and a lack of parental love.     He said he would not single out any group ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Defense Department is investigating an attempted computer security breach last week at a defense agency responsible for reviewing sensitive technology exports. An unidentified employee of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency is under investigation for allegedly seeking unauthorized access to the computer system of a co-worker, agency spokesman Clem Gaines said Tuesday. Gaines said the employee under investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations had requested electronic access to the government computer used by Peter Leitner, a senior adviser to the defense agency on matters involving exports of sensitive technologies. Gaines declined to identify the ...

I received this a little while ago. It was an answer to an e-mail I made for the upcoming Treason is the Reason convoy.I seem to have a problem falling asleep now, so I hope someone can figure out what's up. Here it is: We have been involved with groups who are upset with our government before. I can tell you first-hand that it is not a fun situation that you are going to be putting yourself into. The very corrupt government which you wish to complain against has unbelievable,devious ways to shut you down.We know for a fact that ...

Art Bell just broadcast a solar eruption threat in his nite time talk radio interview with scientist Stanton Dayo. They have web site links showing huge solar flares which are now predicted to reach earth in roughly 10 - 12 days. Already, as of June 29th, the sun spot count is over 310, which is nearing records highs -- as high as the previous record measured in 1957. These bizaar sun effects are projected to increase and peak in February or March, 2000. These web sites have charts and maps showing the global effects of this projected activity. Dayo is ...

Gore Faces S. Africa AIDS Dilemma By SONYA ROSS .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Al Gore is caught in a clash between AIDS activists seeking cheap generic drugs for South African victims of the disease and U.S. laws intended to protect drug companies from having their patents violated abroad. Gore, wary of appearing to be siding with the drug industry in an emotion-laden dispute, wrote to the Congressional Black Caucus' chairman that he does not oppose South Africa's attempts to produce or obtain generic AIDS medicines as long as those efforts do not violate laws protecting ...

Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. With much fanfare for James Hormel Off to Luxembourg he goes They know that it's not just rumor He enjoys his women's clothes Willy did it…pulled a fast one Hormel could not be confirmed He looks nice in his high heels When his hair has just been permed Word is spreading…he is planning To engage in lots of fun Every town put out the warning Moms and dads please guard your son His position he was given 'Cause he gave Bill lots of bucks ...

LA JOLLA, Calif. -- George W. Bush plunged into the most populous state Tuesday for the first time as a presidential candidate and immediately cast himself as more temperate than most Republican leaders here and in Washington on two emotionally charged ballot measures that have roiled his party: immigration and affirmative action. Bush distanced himself from a proposition that passed in this state in 1994 that prohibits public services to illegal immigrants. And he refused to endorse a proposition approved by this state's voters in 1996 that outlawed affirmative action in the state for hiring, employment, the education system and ...

KURDISH REBEL LEADER TO HANG By ANDY SOLTIS Turkey and Europe braced for a fresh wave of violent protests today after a Turkish court condemned Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan to the gallows. Police from London to Moscow increased security at embassies and other targets that were seized by Kurdish militants after Ocalan was captured by Turkish commandos in February. Ocalan's conviction yesterday for leading separatist forces in a 15-year civil war was expected - but Turkey was under intense diplomatic pressure to save him from hanging. Ocalan had also offered to persuade his supporters to end their insurrection ...

GOP, Democrats Mull Foreign Policy By TOM RAUM .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - After the emotionally wrenching and divisive conflict over Kosovo, many Republicans and Democrats are trying to find common ground where they can on national defense and foreign policy. But with the election year fast approaching, the overtures are tentative. Bipartisanship is a fleeting commodity, where timing is everything and neither side wants to cede the advantage. Republicans, for instance, want to reflect credit for a national missile defense system on Ronald Reagan and not allow Vice President Al Gore to adopt it as his own. ...