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THE MILITARY NATO Bars Russia From Reinforcing Troops in Kosovo By ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON -- The United States and its NATO allies have blocked Russia from flying hundreds of troops into Kovoso this weekend, before details of Russia's role in the NATO peacekeeping force could be worked out, Administration officials said Friday. In the last 48 hours, Russia asked Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria for use of their airspace to fly 10 planeloads of peacekeepers on Sunday into Pristina, the provincial capital, the officials said. But those nations rejected the request after consulting with top American and NATO officials, the Administration ...

Crowds Denounce Milosevic in Opposition Stronghold By BLAINE HARDEN NOVI SAD, Serbia -- Whistling and jeering, about 10,000 people filled the main square of Yugoslavia's second-largest city Friday night to demonstrate against Slobodan Milosevic and heard a parade of local opposition politicians threaten that if he does not resign as president soon, they will throw him out. It was the first large public gathering in this Danube River city since NATO bombs knocked out three bridges that were its economic arteries. The city is the capital of the province of Vojvodina, the richest food-producing region in Yugoslavia. Like Kosovo, Vojvodina ...

Apache force flopped because pilots were not good enough THE embarrassing mystery of why the US Army's Apache helicopters never flew in combat in Kosovo has at last been explained. The 24 Apaches, sent to Albania amid fanfare that they would hit Serbian artillery positions and tank columns from close quarters, were woefully under-equipped and the pilots under-trained. The truth of their inadequacies is contained in an "after-action" report by Brigadier-General Richard Cody, one of the army's most respected helicopter officers who planned and carried out successful Apache strikes in the Gulf War. The June 16 report complained that the ...

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Clinton and South Korean Leader Warn the North Against Testing Missile By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON -- President Clinton and President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea used a brief meeting in Washington on Friday to make a show of solidarity against North Korea and to warn it against testing another long-range missile in coming weeks. "We are maintaining close coordination on all issues, on economic issues as well as security issues," said Kim, the onetime dissident who was elected president just as South Korea plunged into its economic crisis two years ago. "And I do hope that this close cooperation ...

NEW YORK, July 1 (UPI) - Ladbrokes, the famous British-based oddsmakers, says (Thursday) odds are slightly favorable for Vice President Al Gore to be elected the 43rd president of the United States on Nov. 7, 2000. Ladbrokes says for those who want to back Democratic Gore, the odds are 5 to 4. For Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Ladbrokes' current odds are 6 to 4.

Clintons Learn New York Is Costly By ELISABETH BUMILLER If where you live defines who you are, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the likely Senate candidate, is on a difficult search. For the last six weeks, a handful of friends, an exclusive real estate agent and the White House social secretary, Capricia Penavic Marshall, have canvassed the expensive northern Westchester County suburbs -- from Katonah to Armonk to Mount Kisco to North Salem -- looking for a home the Clintons can afford. Friends say the president and Mrs. Clinton want to rent, not buy, and pay no more than $10,000 a month. ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 2 (UPI) - A special U.N. General Assembly session has affirmed by consensus goals of the 1994 Cairo development conference and recommends ways to reach its objective - a slowdown in population growth. Several conservative Roman Catholic and Muslim nations raised objections during the three-day conclave to approving the providing of confidential contraceptive advice and safe abortions. But only Argentina, Nicaragua and the Vatican formally opposed results of the conference. Archbishop Renato Martino of the Holy See tonight reaffirmed the Vatican's opposition to abortion and contraception, saying it "will continue to call upon the family of nations ...

Edward Dmytryk LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Edward Dmytryk, a director and member of the Hollywood Ten who served prison time during the Red Scare-era witch hunts and was blacklisted until he named names of his communist comrades, died Thursday. He was 90. Dmytryk was a rising young director at RKO Pictures in 1945 when he joined the Communist Party. He said he stayed ``only a few months,´´ but two years later the House Committee on Un-American Activities called him and nine other Hollywood figures to a Washington hearing. All refused to answer questions about party membership. They were convicted of ...

POLITICAL MEMO Dilemma for Democrats in Clinton Plans By ADAM CLYMER WASHINGTON -- Just as the 2000 campaign is in full swing at living-room coffees in New Hampshire, it is engulfing Washington, too. As many people are asking how President Clinton's Medicare, Social Security and budget proposals will play politically as are asking how they will work or whether they are good ideas. Would Vice President Al Gore's chances on Election Day -- assuming he wins the nomination -- be better if a version of the Clinton plan is passed and he can claim part of the credit? Or would ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 30, 1999 VICE PRESIDENT GORE TO UNVEIL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO RESTORE FLORIDA EVERGLADES $7.8 Billion Blueprint Would Increase Freshwater Flows to Environment, Cities, Farms Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore will present to Congress tomorrow a comprehensive blueprint for rebuilding freshwater supplies in South Florida, a central feature of the Administration's long-term strategy for restoring the Everglades. The $7.8 billion plan calls for a series of water system improvements over 20 years to capture much of the fresh water that now flows unused to the ocean ...

Who'll Be in George W. Bush's Cabinet? You see them all over the place around here: in Washington's poshest restaurants enjoying hefty expense account lunches, popping into the plastic surgeon's office for a quick peel or a facelift, huddling together at upmarket functions discussing in animated whispers the latest phone call to Austin's Governor's Mansion. They are Washington's permanent Republican faces, and they've been pacing the floor for seven long years, waiting diligently for the return of the White House. Some are working as lobbyists, others are writing books, and all are biding their time, as they wait hopefully for ...

July 1, 1999 Presidential Determination No. 99-32 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SUBJECT: Military Drawdown for Tunisia Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including Title III (Foreign Military Financing) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999, as enacted in Public Law 105-277 (Title III), I hereby direct the drawdown of defense articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense, defense services of the Department of Defense, and military education and training of an aggregate value of $5 million ...

State Internet Laws Face a Different Constitutional Challenge By CARL S. KAPLAN Whenever Congress has passed laws that attempted to restrict Internet content, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have been quick to attack the measures on free speech grounds. Those laws, the ACLU has successfully argued, violated the First Amendment rights of adults to engage in discussions of sexual matters or view sexual material. But in a recent challenge to a Michigan law aimed at protecting children from pornography, the ACLU is doing much more than trotting out the usual First Amendment arguments. It is also relying ...

GOP, Anti-Smoking Forces Attack Gore Choice Campaign Hires Carter Eskew, Designer of Ad Campaign That Hurt Tobacco Legislation By John Mintz Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 3, 1999; Page A11 Anti-smoking groups and Republicans yesterday criticized the decision by Vice President Gore's campaign to hire Carter Eskew, the architect of Big Tobacco's $40 million advertising campaign last year that demolished hopes for tobacco control legislation favored by the Clinton administration. "Carter Eskew did a terrific job of harming the greatest piece of tobacco legislation ever to come down the pike," said Bill Novelli, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free ...

For Bush Fund-Raisers, Bucks Never Stopped Economy, New and Old Donors Filled Coffers By Susan B. Glasser Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 3, 1999; Page A10 In Boston, a $500,000 lunch turned into an $850,000 lunch. In Washington, the campaign hoped for $1.5 million and ended up with $2.2 million. By the time the George W. Bush money tour got to Detroit a week ago Thursday, and added yet another million dollars to the Texas governor's presidential campaign, Donald L. Evans had done the math. Bush's best friend and chief fund-raiser, Evans realized that Bush was going to raise ...

Please see The Tokyo Freeper Web page for a copy of the following announcement and more details about the Tokyo Freeper group. The Fourth Tokyo Freepers Meet on the Fourth of July! The fourth meeting of the Tokyo Freepers is scheduled for July 4th (Independence Day). We will meet at 1:00PM at Shibuya station near the famous the statue of Hachiko and wait around until 1:30PM to give people time to show up and so Freepers around the world can watch us on the Shibuya 109-2 Web camera (don't worry if you are shy, it is a long shot ...

Bush Cleared $250,000 From Sale of Some Assets By George Lardner Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 3, 1999; Page A10 Texas Gov. George W. Bush earned more than $100,000 last year on the sale of stock in a Texas pharmacy benefits management firm and took in at least $155,000 more from the sale of real estate and oil and gas partnerships with Texas billionaire Richard Rainwater. Bush's disposal of his interests with Rainwater, a $100,000 contributor to his 1994 campaign, and other holdings were laid out yesterday in a federal financial disclosure report required of all presidential candidates. ...

Clinton, Kim Urge North to Drop Missile Test Relations Between Koreas Tense as South's President Attends Third U.S. Summit By Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 3, 1999; Page A06 South Korean President Kim Dae-jung met President Clinton here yesterday and discussed how to make North Korea "pay a substantial price" if it goes ahead with a long-range missile test that U.S. intelligence believes Pyongyang is preparing, officials said. A senior White House official said that while Kim and Clinton were pressing North Korea to abandon plans to test a long-range ballistic missile that would be capable of ...

Hastert Sees Chance For Gun Control Deal Failure to Act Could Hurt GOP, Speaker Says By Eric Pianin Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 3, 1999; Page A04 House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) said yesterday he wants Congress to approve some form of gun control legislation this year and sees room for a potential compromise that would be acceptable to many Republicans, despite recent setbacks on the House floor. In an interview, Hastert said that he and many House members favor a requirement for child-safety locks on guns and a ban on the importation of high-capacity ammunition clips. He ...