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KLA Impostors Add to Kosovo Chaos By MERITA DHIMGJOKA .c The Associated Press PRIZREN, Yugoslavia (AP) - Muharrem Halluci didn't give it a second thought when someone in a Kosovo Liberation Army uniform impounded his car - the underequipped rebel army often ``borrowed'' vehicles in its fight against much better outfitted Yugoslav forces. But when Halluci, 54, went to the local KLA headquarters to get the car back after the war's end, rebel army officers told him they knew nothing about the vehicle - or the man who had seized it. KLA officials say that whenever the rebel army took ...

July 1, 1999 Federalism Is More Than States' Rights By Michael Greve, director of the Center for Individual Rights and author of "Real Federalism: Why it Matters, How it Could Happen" (American Enterprise Institute Press, 1999). In three noteworthy decisions recently, a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court expanded state governments' protection against federal impositions. The decisions reaffirm the court's increased concern for federalism, which has been evident for roughly a decade. The nation's governors (and this newspaper) cheered the decisions, and rightly so. That enthusiasm, though, ought to be tempered by the Supreme Court's crabbed, statist conception of ...

The Clinton administration is threatening to veto a $12.7 billion foreign aid package that slashes many international programs, including the Peace Corps, while providing unrequested funds for a Kosovo security force. Before passing the overall spending bill late Wednesday, the Senate rejected, 55-43, a proposal that would have eased restrictions on American citizens who want to travel to Cuba. Sponsors said nearly 40 years of sanctions have failed to produce much impact on the policies of Cuba's Fidel Castro. But opponents argued that it would undermine long-standing U.S. policy. "This is not the time for lifting any of the ...

Ths was reposted because the origianl thread was over 200 replies long. Please continue to post your comments on this topic. Religious War II Government Opinion Published: 6/30 Author: Tracey12 Posted on 06/30/1999 07:14:55 PDT by tracey12 The Left hates God, believes in evolution, and Big Government. Basically, the Left believes in man. The Right loves God, believes in Creation, and places trust and faith in the God and his word. Both of these groups have a radically different views on how government should be used, and to what extent. The Left sees no problems with expanding government. The Right ...

House OKs bill on parental consent By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES Pro-life lawmakers scored a major victory in the House yesterday by passing a bill making it illegal to bypass state parental consent laws and transport young girls across state lines to have abortions.      "A child can't receive an aspirin at school or go on a class trip without first obtaining parental permission. But a child can be transported across state lines without notifying a parent to undergo a dangerous, fatal procedure," said House Majority Whip Tom DeLay.      "This is criminal; this practice has to stop," he said.       ...

LONDON - The United Nations launched a huge operation this week to repatriate hundreds of thousands of refugees to Kosovo but aid agencies say they are finding it increasingly difficult to staff projects in the war-torn Yugoslav province. As they recruit on a level not seen since the Rwandan crisis of 1994, the pool of experienced relief workers willing and able to fly out at short notice is drying up. "We are going to run out," Patrick Brook, of the London-based International Health Exchange which recruits staff for disaster relief charities, told AlertNet, the Reuters Foundationís news and communications ...

First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, poised to announce formally the creation of a committee to explore a 2000 run for the U.S. Senate in New York, is in a virtual dead heat with her likely opponent, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, according to a poll released on Wednesday. A Quinnipiac College Polling Institute survey of 1,131 registered voters in the state found that Clinton was preferred by 46 percent of respondents and Giuliani by 44 percent, with a margin of error of 2.9 percent. The poll was conducted June 22-28. The poll marked the first time Clinton, a ...

RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- With the end of the fiscal year less than three months away, officials at Air Force Recruiting Service project that, for the first time since 1979, recruiters will fall short of their target. For fiscal year 1999, recruiters were challenged to sign up 33,800 men and women to join the 350,000-plus people already wearing the Air Force uniform. Early estimates, according to recruiting officials, show they'll be about 2,500 shy of that number. Reasons for missing the goal vary among the Air Force's leaders, but low retention rates are contributing factors. "There are a ...

In an unprecedented intervention, the U.N. secretary-general and 18 nations undertook Wednesday to revamp judicial and civil rule in Kosovo Province less than three weeks after the NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia forced out all Serb troops and special police. With hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians returning to their homes, Secretary-General Kofi Annan organized key international figures to plan for a new civil administration and to elicit pledges of interim police to support a peacekeeping force in trying to keep order among ethnic communities divided by hate and atrocities. "What we must do today is make sure, having won ...

Inside Politics/News and political dispatches from around the nation By Greg Pierce THE WASHINGTON TIMES Targeting Bonior      Rep. David E. Bonior, Michigan Democrat and minority whip, is the Republican Party's No. 1 target in the 2000 elections, according to the leader of the House GOP's campaign arm.      "We talked with [Michigan Republican Secretary of State] Candice Miller [about challenging Mr. Bonior] and she said, 'Well, I'm not interested,' " Rep. Tom Davis, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, tells the conservative weekly Human Events.      "So, we ran a poll and Bonior beat everyone by at least 10 points -- ...

The Serb coroner held out the skull to Radojka Todorovic. "This is your son's head," he said. "Can you not see the incision over where the right ear was? That was the operation he had on his ear. This is your boy." Radojka raised both her arms, looked at the skull and then down at the terrible remains at her feet. There was a rib cage partly covered by a rotted T-shirt, a mouldy pair of trousers and a pile of dark flesh. It had lain in the mass grave at Glamoc for almost a year. But Radojka Todorovic ignored ...

NEWTON's third law -"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" -is as applicable to international relations as it is to bodies in space. The strategic partnership between China and Russia is an instance of that applicability. Once sworn enemies, both countries have found common cause in challenging what they perceive as growing US hegemony. In Europe, Russia sees the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as an encroachment on its sphere of influence; and in Asia, China sees the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance, as well as US plans to install theatre missile ...

Humbled' Bush pulls in record $36 million in 6 months By Ralph Z. Hallow SACRAMENTO, Calif. George W. Bush shattered presidential fund-raising records by raking in more than $36 million in the first six months of 1999, nearly 10 times as much as his closest Republican rival and double the amount raised by Vice President Al Gore.      "I am humbled by the response. I am, as you can imagine, amazed at the outpouring of support," Mr. Bush said. "This is a campaign that has got a wide range of people who are willing to help people from all around the ...

"And so was the Serbian prince Lazar killed, and the whole of his army, too, seventy seven thousand of them." None of the Christian peoples has in its history what the Serbian people have in Kosovo. Some sixty years after the Battle of Kosovo, Constantinople fell, the capital of Eastern Christianity. The Christian Emperor, of Serbian blood and origin by one of his parents, was killed. It could be said that that disaster was like Kosovo. And it might also be said that it was an event even greater than Kosovo. God forbid! In the field of Kosovo the Christian ...

June 28, 1999 Washington State Loves The Initiative Process/Teacher Pay and Tax Issues are the Most Popular By a 10-1 margin, voters in Washington state think that the initiative process should be continued in their state. By a 49 to 30 margin, Washington's voters think that Americans should be able to overturn federal laws through the Initiative process. The survey of 500 likely voters was conducted by Rasmussen Research for the Initiative and Referendum Institute. 58% of Washington's voters believe that special interest groups have more influence on the state legislature than they do on the initiative process. Only ...

    Natural resources such as fish are in demand but their supply is dwindling, creating the potential for conflict as we already have seen in different parts of our own region. Alan Dupont The unsettling images of war and conflict that have filled television screens in recent months suggest a return to an earlier, bloodier period in world affairs. The causes of many of these conflicts are depressingly familiar. Smouldering tribal, religious and ethnic tensions are fueling conflicts from the Balkans to Indonesia. India and Pakistan are expending soldiers' lives in impossibly high Kashmiri alpine passes over territory which each ...

Hubbell Pleads Guilty to Felony Charge in Plea Bargain With Kenneth Starr By James Y. Stern Washington, June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Justice Department official Webster Hubbell pleaded guilty to a felony charge that he tried to cover up his role in a failed Arkansas land venture. Hubbell, a friend of President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, and a former Arkansas law partner of Mrs. Clinton, said his plea bargain with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr wasn't designed to head off potential testimony by the first lady. Starr had charged that Hubbell tried to conceal from federal regulators information ...

Larry Marino will have Dick Morris on as his guest on his drive time morning show in Glendale, CA. The show is on from 6 to 9 AM Pacific Daylight Time. www.kiev870.com has it on the Internet. CLICK FOR KIEV. The toll-free call in number is 877-870-KIEV.

WHITE HOUSE DYNASTY? IT'S JUST A MATTER OF PET-IGREE By DEBORAH ORIN IF GEORGE W. Bush wins the White House, there won't just be a Bush presidential dynasty - there will be a First Dog dynasty, too, complete with White House pedigree. The Texas governor's dog, Spotty, was born at the White House when George H.W. Bush was president. Spotty's mom was Millie, Barbara Bush's beloved dog (and co-author). Spotty, an English springer spaniel, is a girl. She's teamed with three Bush family cats, all of them all-Americans (which is another way of saying regular cats, not fancy breeds). Two ...

'SOUTH PARK' YOUTH BAN? 'R' YOU KIDDING? By CHRISTOPHER FRANCESCANI and ALEX DEVINE Parents who don't want their kids to see the raunchy new film "South Park" shouldn't assume theaters will keep their promise to bar underage moviegoers. Two baby-faced teens - one 14, one 16 - had no trouble buying tickets at four Manhattan theaters premiering the R-rated "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut." "It was a joke," said Morgan Stone, 16, who participated in a Post survey of seven theaters - three of which refused to let the kids in. "It was so easy." "We didn't have ...