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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Al Gore, trying to deal with image problems that have hounded the initial phase of his bid for the White House, has hired seasoned media advisers to help his campaign, aides close to him said Thursday. Campaign aides said Tony Coehlo, Gore's campaign chief, has hired Carter Eskew as senior media adviser and pollster Celinda Lake, who has conducted polling for Republican political efforts. Gore campaign officials insisted the high-level changes did not amount to a widescale shakeup, but others close to the vice president's drive for the White House acknowledged that the roles ...

Swim ban on kids in diapers East Bay Regional Park District bars children not toilet-trained from 12 lakes, lagoons, pools, beaches AREAS AT ISSUE The new restrictions, effective immediately, will apply to these East Bay Regional Park District swim areas: Untreated water reservoirs: Contra Loma in Antioch, Del Valle in Livermore; Shadow Cliffs in Pleasanton, Temescal in Oakland, and Lake Anza in Tilden Park, Berkeley. Treated water lagoons: Cull Canyon in Castro Valley, and Dan Castro in Hayward. San Francisco Bay beaches: Keller Beach at Miller Knox Regional Shoreline in Richmond, and Crown Beach in Alameda. Chlorinated pools: Roberts Regional ...

The House of Representatives has passed a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would allow Congress to impose criminal penalties upon those who physically desecrate the American flag. The standard arguments against such an amendment are driven by the traditional American protection of political speech under the 1st, 9th and 14th amendments and, more broadly, under the natural law doctrines of the Declaration of Independence. Opposition recognizes as well the dangers inherent in the introduction of politically inspired exceptions to the general protection of individual liberties.      That standard argument is correct as far as it goes, but it does not ...

.American MemoryAmerican Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. With the participation of other libraries and archives, the program provides a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. Over one million items from our historical collections are currently available online. In the coming years, the National Digital Library Program plans to digitize more of the Library's unique American history collections and make them freely available to teachers, students, and the general public over the Internet. Special collections to be digitized include the documents, ...

Berzon Nomination Moves Ahead, but Trouble Likely By Paul Elias The Recorder/Cal Law July 2, 1999 By the slimmest of margins, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday recommended San Francisco labor lawyer Marsha Berzon for confirmation to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. With two Republicans breaking ranks, including committee chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch, Berzon was put up for the full Senate's consideration on a 10-8 vote, the closest such committee vote in recent history. Eight Democrats, including California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, voted for her. Two other judicial candidates zoomed out of committee on a 17-1 vote, with ...

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President Kirintong gave another "we oughtta do this, we oughtta do that" speech today outside the White House, this time dealing with conservation. He announced that the American Bald Eagle was enjoying a major comeback and would be removed from the Endangered Species list. A live bald eagle and his handler were near the President as he spoke. When the President had finished his speech, he turned to glad-hand with the audience (minority kids, of course) behind him. Then he placed his hand on the railing on which the bald eagle was perched. It was at this point that the ...

SPECIAL REPORT FROM BEN WORKS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BUYING AN INTERVENTION: KOSOVO AND ALBANIAN PAC MONEY IN CONGRESS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By Benjamin Works, Director, The Strategic Issues Research Institute Hack and I, along with a select group of others, have been at war with the KLA over its heroin and terrorist connections. We also knew something about how political money bought this war policy. Here's the story. Back in 1995, late in the Bosnian war, I got a reference to a 1986 Senate Resolution proposed by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, decrying Yugoslavian official oppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo --that's 1986, ...

MSNBC Apaches in Kosovo get failing grade Army general says flight crews were not prepared to fight By Jim Miklaszewski NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON, July 1 — Apaches are the deadliest attack helicopters in the U.S. military and were supposed to ride to the rescue and help win the war in Kosovo, but they never even saw combat. In a scathing attack on the Apache mission, an Army general told lawmakers Thursday that when the highly publicized helicopters arrived in Albania, their crews were not prepared to fight. AT A CONGRESSIONAL hearing, Brig. Gen. Dick Cody said the flight crews ...

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another 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. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; ...

Challenger, a 10 year-old male bald eagle meets a turkey in the Rose Garden of the White House prior to an event celebrating the success of the Endangered Species Act.

Talk about winning the lottery! The Clinton-Gore administration acts like it has done just that with this new $1 trillion in surpluses it just found lying around -- plenty to bail out Social Security, Medicare, pay down the national debt and provide tax cuts. The problem with this rosy scenario is that the extra trillion isn't actually here yet. It's supposed to get here by 2014. So if the government spends all that money before it actually materializes, isn't that like a lottery player spending the multi-million jackpot before the winning ticket has even been drawn? Clearly, this new ...

Heard the big environmental show at the White House went a little off script. According to the news announcer, Bill was saying what a wonderful thing it was to announce, on the upcoming holiday of the birth of America (you can hear eagle screaching in background), the re-birth of the American Symbol the American bald eagle. Then the announcer said the eagle 1.Went for Clinton's right shoulder. Second time I heard it, went for his hand. He then announced that the irony is that Clinton's secret service code name is "eagle."......GAG! Maybe Britt Hume will have a clip of this ...

WHITEWATER didn't end with even a whimper, let alone a bang. Just a plea. Guilty, but not guilty enough to go to jail. That's about par for this uneven course. Now that Webster Hubbell, ex-all things Clinton, has again cut a deal with Kenneth Starr...th-th-th-that's all, folks. It's all over but the memoirs. All that's left, say those reading between the lines of Mr. Hubbell's latest plea bargain, is a report from the now- defunct Office of the Independent Counsel. (Something tells us it won't sell like its prequel, The Starr Report.) Many will tabulate the cost, at least in ...

US PANEL REJECTS PLEBISCITE ON J&KWashington, July 2, 1999 (UNI) - India has scored a decisive diplomatic victory with a US congressional panel rejecting plebiscite, most favoured by Pakistan, as a possible solution to the 50-year-old Kashmir dispute. The House International Relations Committee yesterday defeated by an 8-20 vote an amendment moved by Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher asking the US to encourage India and Pakistan to hold a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir, as envisaged in the 1948 U.N. Security Council resolution, to decide the future of the territory. The measure was introduced during a discussion on a resolution of ...

Police are searching for two young female gang members who are suspected in the shooting death of a Los Angeles taxi cab driver and the wounding of another man during a carjacking two days earlier. Police said today they believe 21-year-old Adriana Uribe shot and killed cab driver Gerardo Torres Jimenez, then brazenly ate breakfast at a restaurant four blocks away as officers investigated the June 21 shooting. Investigators say Jimenez had been driving in the Hollywood area when another vehicle began following him. Officers say he took evasive action and collided with several parked cars, then was shot. Police ...

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another 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. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers. Carter Braxton of Virginia, ...

The Ill-Fated USS William D. Porter By Kit Bonner - The Navy Times (1995) From November 1943 until her bizarre loss in June 1945, the American Destroyer William D. Porter was often met with the clever greeting, "Don't shoot, we're Republicans!" when she entered port or joined other naval ships. The significance of this expression was almost a cult secret of the United States Navy until the story resurfaced and received wide publicity after a ship's reunion in 1958. More than half a century ago, the "Willie Dee, " as the William D. Porter was nicknamed, accidentally fired a ...

If Richard Holbrooke's nomination to be U.N. ambassador were a carnival ride, this is how a midway barker might pitch the thrills and chills of his 14-month ordeal: "Ride the rapids with Dick Holbrooke. Cheer as the president announces his selection in a stirring Rose Garden ceremony. Squirm as the veteran diplomat endures a protracted and pointless internal ethics investigation. Watch with bated breath as he tap dances past Jesse Helms and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Then dangle breathlessly in midair with Holbrooke as senators resort to a mysterious parliamentary device to delay his nomination on the eve of ...

In my previous thread, The Republican Establishment's Surefire Formula for a Losing Presidential Campaign, Plain Talk queried: Define YOUR winnable strategy for defeating the leftist socialists? So, I give you: Arator's Surefire Formula for Winning a Meaningful Victory in the Upcoming Presidential Campaign(in 7 points): 1) Refuse to be stampeded into voting for the establishment's annointed in the primaries. 2) Vote your conviction, your passion, your heartfelt yearnings for the kind of nation you'd like your children to grow up in. Vote for the candidate that best embodies these things, and trust that others who yearn for these very same ...