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SCHUMER PUTS HEAT ON HILLARY By BRIAN BLOMQUIST, MARILYN RAUBER and FREDRIC U. DICKER Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer demanded yesterday that Hillary Rodham Clinton start fighting for New York - even if it means crossing her husband on such pet projects as Medicare reform that socks it to city hospitals. "I think as New York's senator, she has to defend New York's interests," Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the day after the president unveiled a Medicare plan that could cost city hospitals $1.7 billion and state hospitals $3.2 billion. A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, who initially ducked comment, tried to have ...

SHE'S NOT A POTTED PLANT Three cheers for Victoria Cummock, the victims-rights advocate whose husband was killed on the Pan Am Lockerbie flight. Bill Clinton and Al Gore wanted to use her as window dressing - and as a human rubber stamp - on a presidential advisory commission designed to investigate airline safety. But she refused to play their game, fought back - and has now won a significant legal victory. Al Gore said Mrs. Cummock would bring "an important perspective to the challenges faced by airlines, airports and passengers" when she and 10 others were named to the ...

DEAR DIARY: IS RUNNING REALLY EASY AS 1-2-3? By JACK NEWFIELD AMOLE at the White House faxed us Hillary Rodham Clinton's imaginary secret diary entry for Monday, written while she was supposedly house-shopping in Westchester County: Dear Diary: The president, Spielberg, Streisand, Ickes, and Mrs. Roosevelt's spirit have all asked me the same question: Why do you really want to run for the Senate? Am I running to solve a midlife crisis? To get even with Bill? As a reward for marital humiliation? To defend the liberal agenda? Oh, things used to be so simple. When I was at ...

Wrong About Rogan Widespread Capitol Hill talk during last month's On the Prowl cycle that California Rep. Jim Rogan not only would not challenge Dianne Feinstein for her Senate seat next year but would not seek re-election to the House has proved inaccurate and premature. As reported here last month, Rogan won't be run- ning for the Senate, as many admirers of the House impeachment manager had hoped. But he will defend his House seat, and is expected to spend more than $1 million doing so. While some staffers on the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee still may not be ...

End of the special prosecutor The legislation which allowed special prosecutors to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by top US Government officials has expired. Few are mourning the death of a law introduced 21 years ago in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. But there is some concern that there will be no one left with the independent authority to investigate future allegations against Washington's political elite. President Bill Clinton felt the full force of the powerful independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr. He had to fight an impeachment hearing in the Senate after Mr Starr investigated his relationship with White House intern ...

0242 GMT, 990701 Russia/NATO – Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin said June 30 that he believes relations with NATO will begin to normalize after being "frozen" by the recent bombing campaign in Kosovo. He said, "We have passed through the most difficult stage – a serious cooling [of relations] with NATO, especially at the time of the bombings. But we must draw our conclusions from that situation." Stepashin also allayed fears that Russia might develop new weapons in response to the Kosovo conflict by saying his country will steadfastly adhere to the principles of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. 0112 GMT, ...

Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. Abu-Jamal killed a cop…so his breathing must stop It was his choice to kill…a family's grieving still Where's remorse for what he's done? He denies it all…Abu-Jamal And he'll frying in the chair Frying in the chair 'Cause he took a life…the man had kids…and a wife So he'll be frying…frying…frying…frying We must all understand …it was done by his hand He must be frying What he has done…where to begin?…it is life's greatest sin And what he took he must give…we've one life ...

Democrats Pass Law Requiring Businesses to Implement Social Promotion SACRAMENTO, CA - The Democrat controlled California State Assembly today passed a a bill that would require all businesses registered within the state to use 'social promotion' in employee evaluations, raises and job advancement. The bill is being called the 'Employee Self-Esteem Protection Act of 1999'. If signed into law, it would forbid employers from denying a raise or promotion to an employee because of poor job performance, chronic tardiness or absenteeism, disrespect for superiors, lack of job experience, lack of job knowledge, poor treatment of customers, lack of a college ...

Numbers were best available, officials say By Steven Komarow, USA TODAY Many of the figures used by the Clinton administration and NATO to describe the wartime plight of Albanians in Kosovo now appear greatly exaggerated as allied forces take control of the province. "Yes, there were atrocities. But no, they don't measure up to the advance billing," says House intelligence chairman Porter Goss, R-Fla. Instead of 100,000 ethnic Albanian men feared murdered by rampaging Serbs, officials now estimate that about 10,000 were killed. 600,000 ethnic Albanians were not "trapped within Kosovo itself lacking shelter, short of food, afraid to go ...

Granny Doris goes to Washington Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Christian Science Monitor Service On the road with Granny Doris By SCOTT BALDAUF EASTLAND, Texas (June 30, 1999 10:27 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - It's 5 a.m. on a pitch-dark stretch of rolling Texas highway. But Doris Haddock is already walking at a brisk pace on Interstate 20. For six months and some 1,700 miles Haddock - better known as "Granny D" - has walked across the Southwest in her determination to root out what she sees as the corrupting effect of "big money" in America's elections. At ...

sad sad sad FreeRepublic is falling apart, and its more bitter citizens are looking to bully strangers because they have been left without readers at home. Their crusade to impeach the president failed, and they have not been able to move on. It's kinda sad to think that they now have to seek out new enemies because they have been so truly vanquished as an embryonic right-wing movement. I admit it. I read the Free Republic web site almost every day, and would have never heard of the Brill's Content chat boards if it were not for the posts over ...

By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration is increasingly worried that South Korea may be pushing ahead with several missile projects that could further fuel an arms race on the Korean peninsula, just as North Korea appears to be preparing another launch of a long-range missile. Administration officials say they will raise their concerns that a South Korean missile program could destabilize an already dangerous situation when South Korean President Kim Dae-jung visits Washington on Friday. Two weeks ago, the South sank a North Korean vessel in a firefight along their coastal border that resulted ...

INVESTIGATION Rough Kosovo Graves Hold Loved Ones, and Evidence By IAN FISHER BELA CRKVA, Kosovo -- The body of Haxhi Gegollaj's son is not really buried. Rocks and dirt are piled up over his body at a spot a hard, 45-minute hike up a ridge outside the town of Lubizhde. His black jacket pokes out from under the stones. That is how Gegollaj knows that Nexhat, 22 years old when he died, is there. "This is my son," he said. Gegollaj would like to bury him properly. Thousands of survivors of the massacres in Kosovo, people killed by Serbian forces, ...

http://www.nandotimes.com/politics/story/0,1068,65527-103853-738507-0,00.html Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press By CATHERINE STRONG WASHINGTON (June 30, 1999 8:52 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - The program to vaccinate all military personnel - amounting to 2.4 million individuals - with the anthrax vaccine as protection against biological warfare may be delayed while the only company that produces the vaccine figures out how to cover the costs of the shots, according to congressional critics. BioPort Corp. of Lansing, Mich., the sole producer licensed for manufacture of the vaccine in the United States, is experiencing a cash-flow crisis, a congressional memo says. The House ...

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A Honduran boy struggles to reach New York to find his wayward father...Cameras were on hand for a routine Coast Guard round up of illegals off Miami beaches. What do these two incidents have in common? Why were they news stories today? I suggest it is the beginning of the polarizing chaos which must be created if hillbillie is to save himself and algore. We can't have Dubya hogging the airwaves all day, confusing Latin democrats with positive images of cheering Californians can we? Something HAD to be done...and something WAS done. There's been much speculation that Dubya's runaway lead ...

Two men who admitted corrupting our politics during the Clinton years have copped their guilty pleas and are cheerfully walking free -- without having to implicate any higher-ups. In Webster Hubbell's case, the crony and serial felon the Clintons appointed to run their Justice Department in 1993 triumphed over the Independent Counsel because Ken Starr was sure he could not get a jury to convict Hubbell, and he wants to close up shop as fast as he can. So we will never know if the $100,000 that the Riady family paid Hubbell was, in Thomas Jefferson's phrase, "hush money" -- ...

DAVID E. RYDEL says "this information comes from an extremely reliable source here in the North." PLEASE INVESTIGATE IN IDAHO. ========================================================= North Idaho--"This morning, at the Coeur d'Alene Idaho truck scales, a truck came through that was accidently overloaded. They made them bring another truck to unload some of its load to reduce the weight of the truck. They were unloading road signs. Some of them had something to do with Martial Law. M A R T I A L L A W * R O A D C L O S E D People the time is close, the ...

Pakistan would use nuclear weapons if a full-scale war broke out, the country's religious affairs minister said yesterday, as a further 100,000 Indian soldiers were deployed along the Kashmir border. "Nuclear weapons were not meant to be kept on the shelf if the security of the motherland was threatened," Zafarul Haq was reported as saying by the semi-autonomous News Network International. Pakistan said India has amassed an extra 100,000 soldiers, bringing the military contingent in Indian-ruled Kashmir to more than 700,000 soldiers, border guards and paramilitary troops. "This gives India a capability of doing much more than what they ...

Bush Announces a Record Haul, and Foes Make Money an Issue By RICHARD L. BERKE SAN FRANCISCO -- George W. Bush announced Wednesday that in four months his campaign has amassed $36.3 million, smashing all records in Presidential politics and assuring that he will have the resources to dominate, if not overwhelm, the Republican field throughout the primary season. The amount is so enormous -- more than any other candidate has ever collected over an 18-month primary season -- that some Republican strategists predict it will force other candidates to bow out long before the first votes are cast early ...