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BILLY CLUB: PREZ INVITES HILL TO SLAM HIS POLICIES By BRIAN BLOMQUIST and GREGG BIRNBAUM President Clinton gave wife Hillary the green light yesterday to blast him on the issues - if that's what it takes to boost her Senate campaign in New York. "If my wife decides to run for senator from New York, then some of the disagreements that we've had in the past over decisions I've made as president she may be constrained to state publicly, because they'll be relevant to the future," he said at a press conference with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Marsha Berry, the ...

PREZ ROARS AS BUSH SOARS By DEBORAH ORIN and FREDRIC U. DICKER President Clinton fired his first shot at George W. Bush yesterday as a new poll showed the Republican 2000 front-runner is so strong, he now poses a big threat to Vice President Al Gore - even in New York. Bush is backed by 45 percent of New York voters, compared to 44 percent for Gore - a statistical standoff in a must-win state for Democrats, the Quinnipiac College poll found. The last Republican presidential contender to carry New York was Ronald Reagan. A Bush win in New York ...

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Gangsters bring new terrors to heart of Kosovo By Julius Strauss in Pristina GANG rule on the streets of Pristina, the Kosovo capital, is becoming an increasing headache for British soldiers trying to restore peace. The United Nations has set up an office in Pristina that aims to rebuild civic institutions, and aggressive patrolling by Nato has prevented total anarchy. But the soldiers can do little to halt the activities of the violent underclass from Kosovo and Albania intent on profiting from the chaos. When the war ended nearly three weeks ago, the primary victims were Serb civilians and gipsies ...

US President Bill Clinton has relaxed restrictions on the sale of American computers abroad, including to China and Russia. The broad easing of the curbs came despite calls from some in Congress to tighten them even further. "Maintaining these controls would hurt US exports without benefiting our national security," Mr Clinton said, pointing to the "extraordinarily rapid" pace of change in the computer industry. The computer industry had sought the change because current restrictions, designed to keep advanced technology out of the hands of hostile militaries, have failed to keep up with the advances in commercially available computers. BBC ...

STUDY OF SILICON VALLEY IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A study by the Public Policy Institute of California finds that immigrant entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are generating wealth for the California economy. A spokeswoman for the institute said yesterday that these highly skilled immigrants are not only displacing native workers but are also creating jobs, wealth and global economic links. AnnaLee Saxenian, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who conducted the research, says restricting immigration of these workers could slow the rate of entrepreneurship and trade. She found that in 1998, Chinese and Indian engineers ...

STUDY OF SILICON VALLEY IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A study by the Public Policy Institute of California finds that immigrant entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are generating wealth for the California economy. A spokeswoman for the institute said yesterday that these highly skilled immigrants are not only displacing native workers but are also creating jobs, wealth and global economic links. AnnaLee Saxenian, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who conducted the research, says restricting immigration of these workers could slow the rate of entrepreneurship and trade. She found that in 1998, Chinese and Indian engineers ...

PRISTINA, Jun 30 (Tanjug). - President of the Yugoslav Committee for cooperation with the UN Mission and Deputy Foreign Minister Nebojsa Vujovic told Tanjug Wednesday evening that Yugoslav customs officers and sanitation inspectors would return immediately to the border crossings with Albania and Macedonia. An agreement to this effect was reached in talks with the top officials of the UN international security force, which confirms the principle of respect of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Yugoslavia and Serbia, of which Kosovo-Metohija is an integral part, Vujovic said. "Yugoslav customs officers and sanitary inspectors will assume their duties promptly, as ...

PRISTINA, Jun 30 (Tanjug). - President of the Yugoslav Committee for cooperation with the UN Mission and Deputy Foreign Minister Nebojsa Vujovic told Tanjug Wednesday evening that Yugoslav customs officers and sanitation inspectors would return immediately to the border crossings with Albania and Macedonia. An agreement to this effect was reached in talks with the top officials of the UN international security force, which confirms the principle of respect of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Yugoslavia and Serbia, of which Kosovo-Metohija is an integral part, Vujovic said. "Yugoslav customs officers and sanitary inspectors will assume their duties promptly, as ...

Americans are less likely to marry than ever before, according to a new study, and fewer people who do marry report being "very happy" in their marriages. The report, released yesterday by Rutgers University's National Marriage Project and touted as a benchmark compilation of statistics and surveys, found that the nation's marriage rate has dipped by 43 percent in the past four decades, leaving it at its lowest point in recorded history. This historically low marriage rate, coupled with a soaring divorce rate, has dramatically altered attitudes toward one of society's most fundamental institutions. Although Americans still cherish the ideal ...

Well, boys and girls, we had a "special" guest at the George R. Brown Convention Center Gunshow, in Houston, Texas today! Yep, you guessed it by the title of this e-mail! Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of the 18th Congressional District of Texas! Ms. Anti-Gun herself in person! Don't know who the person was who she brought with her, though. In fact, so many were so "overjoyed" to see her come to our gunshow, that they carefully watched her, and her "friend", and her moving to and fro in the gunshow. Of course, that was done to help her in ...

Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. (fairly long intro) Free…they would die or live free "There is no choice"…said every strong voice Free…God made them to be free And so they'd fight…for what was their birthright And we honor every one…the men who made America It was special, what they'd done…the men who made America Death…that was the penalty…these men of dignity Knew what they faced…knew what they faced Yes, death…treason against the king…that's what their deeds would bring If they were caught…if they were caught And we honor every ...

Capitol Digest: Assembly passes immigrant care bill (Published July 1, 1999) The state Assembly on Wednesday approved a budget-related bill that would continue a state program providing long-term care to illegal immigrants suffering the effects of old age, catastrophic illnesses or severe injuries. At the request of Gov. Gray Davis, however, the program could not grow beyond 10 percent of the estimated $17 million annual cost of the program. The measure, SB 708, passed on a 54-19 vote and goes to the Senate. Davis, meanwhile, signed several other budget-related bills Wednesday intended to increase starting teacher salaries, reward teachers for ...

For fair use July 1, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/07/01/bush All things to all checkbooks The smoothly humming Bush machine makes sure that no one gets a chance to find out just who that man in the driver's seat really is. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Anthony York George W. Bush marched through California this week, plodding methodically from fund-raiser to fund-raiser, delivering the same speech five times in 36 hours. Two more recitals were scheduled by the time the Bush plane, "Great Expectations," flies back to Austin at 4 p.m. PDT Thursday. By ...

For fair use July 2, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/07/02/hillary I'm not Hillary What do Tipper Gore, Laura Bush, Ernestine Bradley and Cindy McCain have in common? See above. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jake Tapper NEW YORK -- Ernestine Schlant Bradley, the wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Bradley, didn't mention Hillary Clinton by name. But we all know who was lurking in the subtext when, at a "Women for Bradley Network" fund-raising breakfast on June 2, she talked about what kind of a first lady she'd be. "I wouldn't like it if ...

Pristina, Brussels, July 1 (Tanjug) - Members of the separatist and terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) have blocked the media in Kosovo and Metohija in order to prevent spreading of the truth about the unprecedented ethnic cleansing committed by their members over the non-Albanian population. KFOR is securing the building of the Press Center in Pristina but failed to carry out concrete actions which would prevent the separatists take over the control over all the media which have been so far transmitting the program in the languages of non-Albanian minorities living in that Serbia's province. There have been no reactions ...

Jun-jun, a 7-year-old with tiny pigtails, has an unexpected answer to a simple question: What color is the sky? ``White,'' she says. ``Sometimes yellow.'' Jun-jun lives in Lanzhou, the world's most polluted city. It is a place where simply breathing is the same as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. The latest survey from the World Resources Institute in Washington found this city of two million people in western China to have the globe's least-breathable air. A combination of coal smoke, car exhaust and dust from the arid yellow mountains means that on the worst days, each breath ...

New troubles in Kosovo and Metohija - June 30, 1999 Glas Javnosti newspaper, June 30, 1999. By Milka Milovanovic Pristina - KFOR troops on Tuesday could not guarantee to inhabitants of Orahovac the safety for evacuation. Therefore the evacuation of 5 000 Serbs from Orahovac, who received aid in food and medicines three days ago, was postponed again. Ethnic-Albanian terrorists, who somewhat calmed down last night, starting from Tuesday apply a new tactics for driving Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija. Dressed in uniforms of peacekeepers they enter into apartments of Serbs and drive out their owners. In Pristina on Tuesday ...

Campaign 2000: Bush rolls into capital with record war chest By Dennis Love Bee Capitol Bureau (Published July 1, 1999) When you are your party's presumptive nominee for president and you've just announced your campaign has raised a record-obliterating $36.25 million in only six months, you can get away with an inside joke or two. And so Texas Gov. George W. Bush, mugging for the cameras Wednesday in frying-pan heat at a downtown Sacramento park, lined up at quarterback at a kids' football camp and started barking signals. "Twenty-two!" he called out. "Seventy-seven!" And then, with a wry smile: ...

FOREIGN AFFAIRS / By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Was Kosovo World War III? A thoughtful reader, Allan Hoving, sent me a note asking an intriguing question: Was Kosovo actually World War III? "O.K., so it was a short one, as world wars go, just 80 days," he wrote. "But think about it: There was genocide by indicted war criminals, and the threat of nuclear war. Nearly every major power was involved -- even China. And historic realignments have emerged. . . . All this without a single allied combat casualty -- not too shabby for a world war." The truth is ...