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Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, South Carolina Democrat, is happy this week to label President Clinton a liar. Mr. Hollings says he "awoke with a shock" three days ago to see the elated Mr. Clinton parading around the Rose Garden with $1 trillion that materialized out of nowhere. Shocked, the senator says, for good reason. You see, four years ago, in 1995, Mr. Hollings vowed to "jump off the Capitol Dome" if the budget was balanced by the year 2002. And here it is June 1999, and he's watching Mr. Clinton declare victory. "I said to myself, it looks as ...

The Kosovo war stretched Nato close to its limits and exposed the alliance's dependence on the United States and the need for better intelligence, its senior military officer said yesterday. Admiral Guido Venturoni, the new chief of Nato's military committee, said that these were the main lessons from a conflict that also gave the lie to claims that the campaign could not be won from the air alone. Without giving new figures, he also dismissed claims that Nato had destroyed only a handful of Serb tanks in Kosovo. The figure of 13 tanks cited in Western reports only referred to ...

Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, South Carolina Democrat, is happy this week to label President Clinton a liar. Mr. Hollings says he "awoke with a shock" three days ago to see the elated Mr. Clinton parading around the Rose Garden with $1 trillion that materialized out of nowhere. Shocked, the senator says, for good reason. You see, four years ago, in 1995, Mr. Hollings vowed to "jump off the Capitol Dome" if the budget was balanced by the year 2002. And here it is June 1999, and he's watching Mr. Clinton declare victory. "I said to myself, it looks as ...

'Listening' Hillary Will Tour Upstate By TRACEY TULLY and JOEL SIEGEL Daily News Staff Writers Hillary Rodham Clinton will formally create her Senate exploratory committee Tuesday, then begin a four-day trip upstate - the first leg of what her office called "a summer-long listening tour of New York." The First Lady announced the tour yesterday as a new Quinnipiac College poll showed her leading Mayor Giuliani in next year's Senate race 46% to 44%, a statistical dead heat. The poll also showed Giuliani with big leads over two potential challengers for the Republican nomination. The formation of the exploratory ...

The Foolish Abandonment of Pat Buchanan Steve Farrell June 30, 1999 Sometimes our memory plays tricks on us. Back in the 1980’s and right up into the early 1990’s Pat Buchanan was widely acclaimed as the toast of the Republican party. Possessing a rare combination of hard hitting yet inspiring commentary; extraordinary debating skills, yet an affable personality; a history of brawling as a youth, yet heartfelt religious devotion as an adult; here was a onetime Democrat turned Republican who by the time he had written "Right from the Start,” had earned himself the title "the conscience of conservatism.” Even ...

CHICAGO, May 30 (UPI) The Democratic National Committee, after racking up a debt of more than $15 million following the 1996 election, has completely paid off its obligations, DNC officials announced. "Now we are ready to fight," DNC National Chairman Joe Andrew told donors at a $500,000 fund-raising dinner highlighted by President Clinton. "Now we are, with your help, ready to win." "I'm very grateful," Clinton declared to the gathering of some 100 donors, who paid at least $5,000 apiece for a meal of swordfish and grilled chicken at the Lincoln Park home of longtime Clinton supporters Susan and ...

Investigative Report THE PANAMA CANAL IN TRANSITION: THREATS TO U.S. SECURITY and CHINA's GROWING ROLE IN LATIN AMERICA XXXXXXXXXXXX SECTION BLACKED XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Introduction: The Panama Canal, one of the world's key strategic waterways, is scheduled to be turned over to the Panamanian government on December 31, 1999. The Canal remains vital to American trade and defense capabilities. The Canal remains the vital sea link in the Western Hemisphere between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and an economic and logistical bridgehead between North America and South America. Currently, some 15 to 20 percent of total U.S. exports/imports pass through the Canal, ...

This op-ed piece has some inspirational stories about the signers, and here's some other highlights: "... Without its presupposition of God and His direct involvement in the affairs of human beings, the Declaration is meaningless rhetoric... the Declaration of Independence is far removed from the NIMBY (``Not In My Back Yard") syndrome that drives us today. This is the mindset that says, ``Don't ask me for anything and don't inconvenience me. Let someone else do it, I'm too busy!" That is how we have come to define freedom... We better be careful with this document; it could start a revolution!" ...

DALLAS (AP) — Mimicking a wrestling move he had watched on television, a boy accidentally killed his younger brother during horseplay, investigators said. The 3-year-old victim died from brain swelling. His 7-year-old brother will not face any criminal charges, law officers said Wednesday. "He said he pushed his brother down ... and said he'd seen it on wrestling on TV,'' said police Lt. Bill Walsh. The older brother, asked to demonstrate what he had done, backed up about 10 feet and ran toward a police detective who was holding up a doll about the same size as the 3-year-old. ...

Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, South Carolina Democrat, is happy this week to label President Clinton a liar.     Mr. Hollings says he "awoke with a shock" three days ago to see the elated Mr. Clinton parading around the Rose Garden with $1 trillion that materialized out of nowhere.     Shocked, the senator says, for good reason.     You see, four years ago, in 1995, Mr. Hollings vowed to "jump off the Capitol Dome" if the budget was balanced by the year 2002.     And here it is June 1999, and he's watching Mr. Clinton declare victory.     "I said to myself, it looks as if I am going to have ...

Low IQ saves Neb. killer from execution OMAHA, Neb. - A man convicted of three killings was taken off Nebraska's death row Wednesday under a new state law banning the execution of the mentally retarded. Clarence Victor, 66, is the second convict to win a reduction of sentence to life in prison under the 1998 law. Tests had placed Victor's IQ at 65. The law made it illegal to execute anyone with an IQ below 70. Victor was sentenced to death in 1988 for the 1987 beating death of Alyce Singleton of Omaha. He also had been convicted of manslaughter ...

MOSCOW, Jul 1, 1999 -- (Reuters) A prominent Soviet dissident writer, Alexander Zinoviyev, returned to Russia on Wednesday to start a new life in the country he was forced to leave 21 years ago, Russian media said. "I am back for good," Ria Novosti news agency quoted the 76-year-old writer as saying upon his arrival in Moscow. "It is in Russia that the front-line struggle for the fate of humanity is taking place." Zinoviyev, author of satirical novels such as "Yawning Heights", lost his Soviet citizenship in 1978 after writing a book critical of communist leader Leonid Brezhnev. His ...

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 1, 1999 -- (Reuters) Insisting Kosovo remain an integral part of Yugoslavia, Russia said on Wednesday it feared Western nations were trying to take over the United Nations' role in rebuilding the war-devastated province. "Tendencies have appeared to ... dilute the United Nations' role in the restructuring of Kosovo and make the U.N. and its secretary-general a mere executor of someone else's initiatives and efforts," Moscow's deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Avdeyev told reporters. Avdeyev spoke after a meeting of high-level officials from 18 countries brought together by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to discuss the civilian mission ...

WASHINGTON (July 1, 1999 12:58 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Two Russian bombers on a military exercise were intercepted by U.S. fighter jets last Friday near Iceland and another two Russian bombers flew down the Norwegian coastline, The Washington Post reported in its Thursday edition. Four U.S. F-15 fighters and an American P-3 patrol plane escorted the two TU-95 Bear bombers in a clockwise flight around Iceland, which like Norway, is a member of NATO, the newspaper said. It said Norway scrambled jets to meet a pair of Russian TU-140 Blackjack bombers flying down the Norwegian coastline but the bombers ...

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 home or buried in mass graves dug by their executioners" as ...

Why Cuba, Iran, & communist China would support the Flag Amendment WASHINGTON, DC -- Want to make America more like Cuba, Iran, and China? Then encourage the U.S. Senate to pass an anti-flag burning amendment, the Libertarian Party recommended today. That's because Cuba, Iran, and China -- totalitarian regimes where civil liberties are nonexistent -- already make "desecrating" their flag a crime. And, unfortunately, that's the course of action the Senate may follow, in the wake of a House vote on Thursday to amend the Constitution to make flag-burning a crime, said Steve Dasbach, the party's national director. "Any U.S. ...

With a larger than expected surplus filling federal coffers, Washington is again talking about ``targeted tax cuts.'' The White House loves to promote ``targeted tax cuts,'' a buzz phrase popular with focus groups and polls. Now the GOP-controlled Senate is picking up on it, too. The problem is, ``targeted tax cuts'' is a play on words, a con-game. The Clinton administration would have you believe that, in the interests of some ill-defined notion of ``fairness,'' tax reductions should be aimed only at ``deserving'' Americans. But what's fair about taxing people with same incomes at different rates? Rates vary because ...

INTELLIGENCE WORRY: TWO RUSSIAN BOMBERS FLEW WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF USA LAST WEEK During a massive military exercise last week, Russia flew two of its strategic bombers to within striking distance of the United States. The move, the first of its kind since the cold war, alarmed and astounded U.S. intelligence officials and underlined recent Western concerns about the military leadership in Moscow, the WASHINGTON POST is reporting in Thursday editions. The Russian TU-95 Bear bombers were intercepted by four U.S. F-15 fighters near Iceland early Friday morning and escorted around the island, according to us intelligence. [Russia's wire service ...

There are few words in our language that have the appeal that "free" does. Politicians know that. But few things are really "free." We, the people, know that. Yet there still is a great appeal in the word "free." President Bill Clinton is counting on that in offering "free" prescription drugs for senior citizens. Maybe it's an "idea whose time has come." But have the means of financing it arrived simultaneously? Or is this another major open-ended "entitlement" scheme whose costs cannot be known and whose financing cannot be assured? Many Americans are dependent upon prescription drugs. People are ...