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U.S. Pressures Would Be Allies in Caspian Upon concluding his visit to Azerbaijan in late June, special adviser to the U.S. President and the Secretary of State for Caspian Issues, Richard Morningstar, said moving ahead with the Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan gas pipeline was more urgent than resolving the legal status of the Caspian Sea. In his comments on the talks on the Caspian issue between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, Morningstar said it was essential that the two Caspian states agree as soon as possible on the matter of the Transcaspian gas pipeline that should transport oil from Turkmenistan to Turkey via the ...

More Details About Blackjack Flight 2050 GMT, 990702 – More Details About Blackjack Flight The June 29 edition of Russia’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a newspaper controlled by close Yeltsin ally Boris Berezovsky, offered a detailed account of the flight of two Russian strategic bombers down the Norwegian coast which differed somewhat in perspective from the version of events being carried in the Western press. The Los Angeles Times reported that the two Tu-160 "Blackjack" bombers "flew down the coastline of Norway, also a NATO member." The report continued, "The move set Norwegian fighter planes scrambling. But the Blackjacks headed east ...

Hack and I and 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 is 1986, when the Albanian Autonomous government was still fully operational. Joseph DioGuardi, a New York Republican, sponsored the companion House Resolution, neither of which ever emerged ...

Gangsters bring new terrors to heart of Kosovo Gangsters bring new terrors to heart of KosovoBy Julius Strauss in Pristina UN soon establishes juridical and legal system in Kosovo [26 June '99] - Serbian Ministry of Information Operation Joint Guardian - Nato News -Foreign and Commonwealth Office Daily news - Kosova Press 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. ...

Today on Mike Richards Radio Talk show here in Houston, he asked for GOP Slogans (bumper-sticker ideas) for Election 2000. I can't remember them all since I was in the SUV, but here are some that were mentioned:Don't be Gored, Vote RepublicanVote for Gore, The Second Best Friend China HasFor 4 More Years Of Madness, Vote PornocraticIf You Love Government Vote Democratic...But If You Love America Vote RepublicanGo Ahead California, Vote Democratic...You're Closer To China Than The Rest Of UsDon't Let The Tick Get Bigger Than The Dog, Vote Republican

Vote for Al Gore Gore and Li Peng review troops Beijing, March 1997 He's great friends with The Butcher of Beijing Don't it make you feel safe???

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776. THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that ...

National Review COVER STORY Mr. Right The conservative case for George W. RALPH REED Mr. Reed, a Republican consultant, is president of Century Strategies. IN Republican circles, the common rationale for nominating George W. Bush for president is, "We have to win" -- an understandable sentiment. After eight years of Clinton-Gore, there is a palpable yearning among GOP activists for a Republican in the White House. In purely electoral terms, the case for Bush's candidacy is formidable. He is the first governor of Texas this century to be elected to consecutive terms. In 1998, on his way to a landslide ...

U.S. stocks staged their own fireworks display Friday with three closely-watched market barometers ending the week at record highs. Based on official data, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 72.82 points or 0.66 percent to close at a record 11,139.24. The previous record close was 11,107.19 on May 13. For the week, the Dow gained 586.68 points with investors' spirits lifted by signs this week's rise in short term interest rates was a one-time event. In the broader market, advancing issues led declines by 1,681 to 1,224 on volume of 583.7 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The ...

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and his army are threatening Montenegro with the presence of some 40,000 troops, four times the normal strength in the republic, the Clinton administration said Friday. ``We are, and remain, concerned about the situation in Montenegro,'' State Department spokesman James Foley said. He said the troops were a threat to the democratically elected government of President Milo Djukanovic. The smaller of Yugoslavia's two republics behind much stronger and larger Serbia, Montenegro has staked out an independent course from Belgrade, thereby pleasing the Clinton administration. President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met with Djukanovic ...

Testimony of Dr. Peter M. Leitner before the Committee on Government Reform of the United States House of Representatives June 24, 1999 10:00 a.m. REPRISALS & RETALIATION: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER ON CHINA Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I would like to express my appreciation for your collective concern over the mistreatment of career civil servants for "speaking truth to power" concerning the systematic pillaging of the U.S. defense industrial base and our nation's most precious military and nuclear secrets by the People's Republic of China. Appearing before you today is both an honor and a rather dubious ...

FRIDAY, July 2, 1999 The First Lady...a Fox? Had enough of Christy Turlington's famous good looks? Kate Moss's waifish appeal got you down? While these beauty queens won't soon vacate their place in the public eye, sometimes less conventional standards deserve another look. A new survey conducted by Men's Health magazine asked readers to submit a list of the top fifty women they find "strangely sexy." The results took editors by surprise. The chameleon campaigner Hillary Rodham Clinton ranked number one, followed by homemaker extraordinaire Martha Stewart, TV judge Judy Sheindlin, U.S. Attorney-General Janet Reno and that feisty "Home ...

Suggestion to all FReepers: A new thread should be created for a given topic after it has received 100 replies. This would make it easier for lurkers or newcomers to join in the discussion without having to wait for the thread to download. Plus, it makes that particular thread more popular in the Forum, and make for healthier debates. So please....create a new thread after 100 replies. I don't know how to link an article to a thread, or else I'd had done it by now. EAGLES UP!!

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic still has firm control of his army, is trying to rebuild a political base and is capable of moving against pro-Western Montenegro at any time, NATO's supreme commander said Thursday. NATO's supreme commander, Gen. Wesley Clark, gave the Senate Armed Services Committee an update on peacekeeping efforts in Kosovo in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. "Milosevic retains formidable power in Yugoslavia and he's an expert at dividing the opposition," Gen. Wesley Clark told the Senate Armed Services Committee. In his first appearance on Capitol Hill since the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia, Clark said that he ...

2130 GMT, 990702 – U.S. Pressures Would Be Allies in Caspian Upon concluding his visit to Azerbaijan in late June, special adviser to the U.S. President and the Secretary of State for Caspian Issues, Richard Morningstar, said moving ahead with the Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan gas pipeline was more urgent than resolving the legal status of the Caspian Sea. In his comments on the talks on the Caspian issue between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, Morningstar said it was essential that the two Caspian states agree as soon as possible on the matter of the Transcaspian gas pipeline that should transport oil from Turkmenistan ...

Greece Announces Pending Defense Pact with Iran and Armenia July 1, 1999 SUMMARY Greece and Iran have announced that they intend to sign a tripartite military cooperation agreement, along with Armenia, as early as July 12. Such an agreement would seriously undermine NATO unity and strategy in the Balkans and the Caucasus, exacerbate tensions between Greece and Turkey, isolate Azerbaijan and Georgia and, by extension, Central Asia, and provide Russia with a tremendous lever against NATO. As all involved intended, it is not something NATO can ignore. ANALYSIS Addressing reporters in Tehran on June 28, Greek Defense Minister Apostolos-Athanasios ...

  An Olive Branch for Hollywood? Texas governor George W. Bush has sent disappointing signals on a number of issues that are important to conservatives such as abortion and U.S. China policy. Now we can add one more issue to that list: the gratuitous sex, violence, and mayhem served up by the entertainment elites. During a fundraising trip to California this week, the governor raised $2.3 million in a single night from some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry. The impact of such an enormous amount of money is clear: The governor is going soft on holding ...

Foster family unable to save Carpenter 7/2/99 By Tom Bailey Jr. The Commercial Appeal By the time the state removed 7-year-old Robert Carpenter Jr. from his Moscow-area home in 1987, it may have been too late to prevent what happened on June 15, 1999. Carpenter, now 19, is charged with his brother, Antonio Carpenter, 18, and cousin, Eric Glover, 16, in the June 15 carjacking and murder of Barbara Ann Lee of Germantown. Child abuse and a history of emotional disorders would never excuse what Robert Carpenter is accused of doing to Lee, but it might explain part of it. ...

Dear Freepers, This Fourth of July, lets take a moment to thank God for America. His hand was surely involed in the development and establishment of this, the most blessed country on earth. From the days of its foundation, Americans have felt that God was doing a great work in this wonderful cuontry of ours. Now, 223 years later, we can see that he has preserved America, and through her, he has sent out many who have spread The Good News to all corners of the globe. Our current debates regarding Constitutional law, the Second, and even the First ...

"During the Bush/Quayle administration, the Soviet Union became past tense; the Berlin Wall came down; Germany was united; Eastern and Central Europe were freed from communism; the evil political system of apartheid in South Africa was eliminated; Noriega was apprehended; we saved democracy in the Philippines; and we kicked Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Now that is a record of achievement . . . [F]oreign policy is a critical issue and you get that through experience. There's only so much . . . you can get from briefers and briefings. There's only so much you can get from crash courses. ...