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Stop the Exodus July 1, 1999 Stop the Exodus By ALEKSA DJILAS ELGRADE, Serbia -- Does Serbia without Kosovo inevitably mean Kosovo without the Serbs? President Clinton and other NATO leaders have repeatedly said no and promised that Kosovo would be a multi-ethnic democracy. While they fought Serbian nationalism with more than 1,000 combat aircraft, however, they use mostly words against Albanian extremists. As a result, many units of the Kosovo Liberation Army have not been disarmed, even though the K.L.A.'s leaders said they would comply with the peace deal. Since the armistice on June 10, several Serbian civilians ...

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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 ...

Espy Took Job With Charity While Under Federal Scrutiny 07/01/1999 By Penny Owen and Diana Baldwin Staff Writers Copyright 1999, The Oklahoman Former U.S. Agriculture Department Secretary Mike Espy was on the payroll of Feed The Children Inc. as one of its highest paid employees at the same time he was being investigated for illegally accepting gifts while in office. Feed The Children -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jones' Son Defaults on Nearly $1 Million Debt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Espy has since become the charity's newest board member, having been voted to the nine-member board in March. The move follows a long-standing friendship Espy said he ...

Arms and Thomas Jefferson by Dave Kopel The greatest enemy of government power in the early American republic was Thomas Jefferson. It is no wonder, then, that Jefferson has been so aggressively vilified by the partisans of political correctness. Jefferson was likewise disdained by many in the 19th and early 20th century who, quite rightly, saw his ideas as an obstacle to the extensive national regime they wished to build. How sad it is to recall that the current occupant of the White House bears the middle name "Jefferson"--though the real Jefferson taught his nephew Peter Carr: “Nothing is so ...

Who are these men, these rogues, these renegades who put their names on that sinister document in 1776? Who are the men who signed the Declaration of Independence? All were more than talkers; when they put pen to paper that July day, they put their beliefs on the line. Several fought in the ragtag Revolutionary Army. One had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. ...

THE Republican presidential candidate George W Bush invaded a traditional Democratic stronghold when he met 100 Hollywood leaders on the first day of his campaign swing through California. The group, which included actor Warren Beatty, the industry spokesman, Jack Valenti, the Paramount chairman, Sherry Lansing and the producer Jerry Bruckenheimer, has become disenchanted with President Clinton, who recently took the film industry to task for its depictions of violence. After the private meeting at the home of Terry Semel, the Warner Bros chief, Republicans were optimistic that Mr Bush might have made substantial inroads into the Democrats' wealthy Hollywood power ...

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OVERWHELMING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR INDIA India has received overwhelming support for its stand on the Kargil issue with the United States, China and Britain -- three permanent members of the UN Security Council -- asserting that the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir must be respected. At the end of a meeting of G-8 foreign ministers in New York, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright yesterday said her country had been stressing that the Kargil issue must be resolved diplomatically. She said the US desired that infiltrators, especially those being supported by Pakistani forces, be withdrawn from the ...

OVERWHELMING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR INDIA India has received overwhelming support for its stand on the Kargil issue with the United States, China and Britain -- three permanent members of the UN Security Council -- asserting that the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir must be respected. At the end of a meeting of G-8 foreign ministers in New York, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright yesterday said her country had been stressing that the Kargil issue must be resolved diplomatically. She said the US desired that infiltrators, especially those being supported by Pakistani forces, be withdrawn from the ...

Lott Plans Gun-Control Negotiations By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - In the polite parlance of the Senate, Majority Leader Trent Lott on Thursday dismissed Sen. Bob Smith's threat to hold up legislative business if negotiations are opened with the House on new gun control restrictions. Threat or no threat, Lott told reporters, negotiators will be appointed and the process will begin in mid-July. ``At some point, you have to go forward,'' Lott, R-Miss., told reporters at a news conference. He promised ``to talk to Senator Smith about how we go to conference.'' Smith, one of three senators ...

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt testified yesterday before a federal grand jury probing whether his 1995 denial of a casino license to three Wisconsin Indian tribes was based on promises by rival tribes to make campaign donations to President Clinton's 1996 re-election. His testimony came as independent counsel Carol Elder Bruce begins to wrap up a 14-month investigation into accusations that Mr. Babbitt's July 14, 1995, decision against three Chippewa tribes was the result of political influence. The Chippewas' application had been pending before the Interior Department for two years and had been approved by the department's regional Bureau of ...

Supporters of a bill calling for a national day of prayer and fasting said they will try again to convince Congress that America needs to turn to God. The measure--which called for public repentance and prayer--was introduced by Rep. Helen Chenoweth, R-Idaho. The bill failed to win the two-thirds majority needed for passage on Tuesday. A two-thirds majority is needed when legislation is considered under special rules designed to speed passage of noncontroversial bills through the House, the Associated Press reported. The bill failed on a vote of 275 for, 140 against--two votes shy of the required two-thirds majority. Chenoweth, ...

For Discussion Purposes Only. Top World News Thu, 01 Jul 1999, 9:29pm EDT Clinton Administration Will Ease Controls on Computer Exports to China By Dina Temple-Raston Clinton to Ease Computer Export Controls to China (Update1) (Adds detail from announcement throughout, comments from the president, Podesta and Daley.) Washington, July 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Clinton administration will ease controls on computer exports to China and other emerging markets, allowing companies like Hewlett-Packard Co. to export higher-speed computers without a license. ``Maintaining these controls would hurt U.S. exports without benefiting our national security,'' President Bill Clinton said in a written statement ...

Gore Backer Acquitted in Money Trial WASHINGTON (AP) – A longtime political supporter of Vice President Al Gore was acquitted today of charges he funneled about $100,000 in illegal contributions to the President Clinton, Gore and other politicians. Franklin L. Haney was found innocent of 42 charges that he tried to mask illegal political contributions in hopes of gaining influence with powerful Democrats. Afterward Haney released a statement that said he was ``deeply gratified with today's verdict.'' ``We had faith that this day would come. ... We look forward to putting this trial behind us and getting on with our ...

since you served in vietnam, did you ever fire a weapon in combat???? do you have a question for the vice-creep too....;)

Isn't this nasty, globalist swine Liddy Dole's Foreign Affairs advisor? STORY HERE New York Post PAGE SIX By RICHARD JOHNSON with Jeane MacIntosh and Kate Coyne KIRKPATRICK POOCH IN CAR CAPER CONSERVATIVE icon Jeane Kirkpatrick got a firsthand lesson in how increasingly authoritarian big government interferes with personal freedom the other day when Maryland cops gave her a ticket for leaving her dog in her car. Kirkpatrick - President Reagan's UN ambassador who memorably established the distinction between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" rule - locked her poodle, Jasper, in her late-model Lincoln Continental with the windows up while she shopped last ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Twisting his fist as if digging in a dagger, President Clinton complimented a reporter on his tough question at a news conference. The reporter set up his question by congratulating the president on ``your success and resolve in Kosovo.'' Then he went on to ask Clinton if he would work as hard to return Palestinian refugees to their homes as he did to send ethnic Albanians back to Kosovo. Clinton paused to ponder his answer. ``That's really good,'' the president said. ``That's really good.'' He turned to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at his side and remarked, ...

A couple days ago there was a report from Willy Wo-Lap Lam that Zhu Rongji was being called to the carpet by Li Peng to explain things. That was a type of power play meant basically to embarrass Zhu And yesterday rumors then abounded that he was going to resign and the stock markets frenzied. A report from a Hong Kong paer called The Sun talked about this and mentioned Zhu hadn't been seen for a long time, and the reports were that he was in Hangzhou recuperating from some type of illness that he had had before or that ...

Michael Fumento reports: "The World Is Still Safe for Butterflies" The World Is Still Safe for Butterflies By Michael Fumento The Wall Street Journal, June 25, 1999 Copyright 1999 by the Wall Street Journal Until now, the U.S. has been relatively immune to the hysteria over bioengineered crops that has swept Europe, where many stores refuse to carry what are popularly called "Frankenfoods." Suddenly, though, the heretofore weak American antibiotech movement has a powerful rallying symbol: the monarch butterfly. It began with a letter to the British science journal Nature describing a study concerning monarch larvae (caterpillars). They had ...