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Turkey Gas Line Partners To Sign Framework Pact ASHGABAT, Jun 29, 1999 -- (Reuters) Partners in a planned $2 billion natural gas pipeline between Turkmenistan and Turkey will sign a framework agreement next month finalizing their contributions to the project, a Turkmen official said. "The signing of the Project Development Agreement is planned for July 15," a spokesman for the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry and Mineral Resources told Reuters. "The heads of state of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Turkey are expected to guarantee their participation in this 'project of the century' and confirm their interest in its ...

PRIZREN, Yugoslavia (AP) — In the Vietnam War, an American officer knee-deep in rubble remarked to a reporter: ``We had to destroy the village to save it.'' In Kosovo, that unintended irony resounds on a grand scale. After a methodical bombing by NATO that defeated Serbs by firing their frustration with a slow, steady flame, a whole province collapsed. Mass physical destruction is secondary to human wreckage beyond repair. NATO targets included bridges, communications centers and public buildings now badly needed. The Serbs burned city centers, villages and countless homes. But if Kosovo was destroyed, Kosova is arising in ...

Manchester, NH--AIDS activists took over Vice President Al Gore's second campaign stop this morning in Manchester, New Hampshire. The activists were protesting Gore's instrumental role in preventing AIDS medications from reaching people in developing countries, including South Africa and Thailand.Five protesters, organized by the local chapter of AIDS Drugs for Africa, disrupted Gore's campaign speech with noisemakers, chants and banners reading "GORE'S GREED KILLS: AFRICA NEEDS AIDS DRUGS." They were seated directly behind Gore in the audience of 300 in the Hesser College Gym. "After our protest, Gore said AIDS drugs for Africa are very important. Yet, he is personally ...

PARIS (AP*)- Hundreds of tourists at Notre Dame looked on in macabre fascination as a figure identified as none other than US Secretary of State Madeline Albright stood stoicly and quite precariously high atop one of the cathedral's many ledges in what appeared to be a bizarre suicide attempt. Apparently despondent after her disasterous campaign in Kosovo and her subsequent falling out with President Clinton, Ms. Albright resisted all pleadings by French authorities to step back from the ledge. In fact, she once again displayed her famous iron resolve by holding fast to her stance on the edge of the ...

Nils Allen Stewart, a proud Scandinavian, plays the wrestler formerly known as John Janos Jingleheimer Schmitt, in the hope of breaking big just like Jason Scott Lee did in The Bruce Lee Story. Don't hold your breath. In this recursive, metafictional look at the life of Minnesota's governor, we are guided through the life of fakey Ventura by an even fakier present-day Ventura in a near-Joycean denial of the persistence of memory and the linearity of time. We follow Jesse through his early years, killing Commies in NAM, becoming Ron Kovic upon his return, entering the musty, homoerotic world of ...

Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. There's Courtney Love…she is set to perform And Al Gore is there Disgusting and sleazy, yes that is her norm And Al Gore is there Then fellatio she simulates for her fans And Al Gore must change his underwear While Tipper is home having her lyrics banned Groupie Al is there Courtney goes topless while her fans all cheer And Al Gore is there They're rushing the stage…it's a riot we fear And Al Gore is there He is out of control when he ...

As dusk fell on June 9, a drunken Serbian paramilitary soldier burst into a house full of Kosovo Albanians and announced that he wanted "fresh girls". For more than an hour, the stocky Serb assaulted three women at gunpoint - sisters Vesa, 25, and Nora, 29, and their neighbour Lumturije, 24. Heavily armed and half-naked, the man was trying to penetrate Lumturije when an officer from the Yugoslav Army suddenly appeared. Appalled by the tableau of screaming women and innocent blood, the officer beat the paramilitary man, threw him from the house and begged the women for forgiveness. "Like an ...

At first I was heartened to hear that the Bald Eagle is no longer in danger of being extinct. At least, that is what I thought. But as I scanned the newspapers and really listened to the radio, no one actually said that. Everyone is just reporting that "...President Clinton is taking the Bald Eagle off of the extinction list." So I must ask, Is the Bald Eagle population restored to the 250,000 nesting pair goal, or are the standards lowered for Political reasons to 6000 pairs? I hate to nickpick, but I find it too much of a coincidence ...

This is the conclusion of an article in The American Spectator by Byron York, on GWB. The whole article can be found HERE. ----------------------------------------------- Still, a healthy inquiry will be a good thing. Although each of these issues has been reported in the Texas press, there is undoubtedly still more to learn. And it will be useful to hear how Bush handles inquiries about whether he believes that any of the businessmen who offered him opportunities were also hoping for a friendly tie to his father. It's not an idle question. If one superimposes a timeline over the Bush career ...

This is the conclusion of an article in The American Spectator by Byron York, on GWB. The whole article can be found HERE Still, a healthy inquiry will be a good thing. Although each of these issues has been reported in the Texas press, there is undoubtedly still more to learn. And it will be useful to hear how Bush handles inquiries about whether he believes that any of the businessmen who offered him opportunities were also hoping for a friendly tie to his father. It's not an idle question. If one superimposes a timeline over the Bush career path, ...

Ivanka and Bogic Milutinovic are living on borrowed time. The Serb couple, both in their 60s, live in Mitrovica, a town 20 miles north of Pristina. During the war, Mitrovica saw some of the worst ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo. The Milutinovics spent much of the conflict huddled inside their tidy fifth-floor apartment overlooking the River Ibar, in a predominantly Albanian neighborhood. Their three daughters fled to Serbia when the bombs began to fall. "But where could we go?" asks Ivanka. "We have a small piece of land outside town. We have this apartment—and nothing else." Their problems ...

July 4th: Unclear on the concept By Emily Gurnon OF THE EXAMINER STAFF For many Bay Area students, Independence Day means hot dogs, family picnics, fireworks — and not much else. Out of four dozen teens quizzed in an informal survey in San Francisco, Concord and Pacifica, most knew that the Fourth of July had something to do with America's independence, but less than half could name the country from which we won our freedom. "Japan or something. China. Somewhere out there on the other side of the world," said Hardy Hsu, 14, a seventh-grader at Roosevelt Middle School in ...

You've got to see this: Note spelling of 'Sought'. T O P   S T O R Y Motive Saught in Chicago Killings A string of drive-by shootings in Chicago and twosuburbs that left a former college basketball coach dead and sixOrthodox Jews wounded could be one man's hate-motivated crimespree, police said.   All Headlines Last Updated: 04:22 PM EDT - July 03, 1999    

Man cuffed at store sues for $1 million SANTA ROSA — A man who was handcuffed and questioned outside a Barnes & Noble store is suing the bookseller and two police officers, saying he was discriminated against because he is black. Krysten Hendrix, 22, was shopping with a friend last Nov. 25 when another patron told a store employee he thought Hendrix was carrying a gun. The employee called police and told a dispatcher that the report seemed credible because the suspect was black, records show. Hendrix was detained and handcuffed by two police officers who searched him and his ...

OVER THE broken Awali river bridge staggered a young man with a tray bearing a massive strawberry and meringue cake. "Happy Birthday to Fatima Begun" the icing announced. And then another cake. And another. Each cake was three feet by two feet. Same birthday, same lady. "It was made in Zrarieh and we're taking it to Beirut," the young man said. I hoped Fatima Begun wasn't going to eat it all herself. But the Israeli air raids weren't going to diminish this lady's birthday. On the other bank - after I had staggered down the wooden trellis and pounded up ...

CHICAGO — A former college basketball coach was slain and six Orthodox Jews were wounded in a series of drive-by shootings that may have been committed by the same person, police said today. Minorities appeared to be targeted in the crimes Friday night, and each shooting was linked to a blue car. Two Asian-Americans were shot at as they rode in their vehicle but were not injured. There were no immediate arrests. The shootings — all within approximately 12 miles of each other — began in the northern Chicago neighborhood of Rogers Park and ended in the suburbs of ...

JERUSALEM (July 2) - At the height of the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII made known to President Franklin D. Roosevelt his opposition toward Palestine becoming a Jewish homeland, according to a letter from the US Archives obtained by The Jerusalem Post from the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Dated June 22, 1943, the letter sent by A. G. Cicognani, the pope's special representative to the US, to Ambassador Myron Taylor, Roosevelt's special emissary to Pius XII, is believed to be the first explicit expression of Pius's policy against Zionism conveyed to the American government. "It is true that at one time Palestine ...

NRA-ILA FAX ALERT 11250 Waples Mill Road * Fairfax, VA 22030 Phone: (800) 392-8683 * Fax: (703) 267-3918 * www.nraila.org Vol. 6, No. 25 7/2/99 LATEST SCHUMER ASSAULT DERAILED U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) recently tipped his anti-gun hand by filing an amendment to the Treasury Department appropriations bill that sought to lay the groundwork for a national firearm registration program. Schumer's "Targeted Gun Dealer Enforcement Act" sought to allow the Department of the Treasury to "receive and centralize" any records submitted -- such as firearms transactions records -- "in whatever manner" the Secretary of the Treasury chooses. It ...

You might be a liberal if. . . Politics is getting more confusing. If a decade ago someone predicted that in 1996 a war hero running for president would be 20 points behind the incumbent, a draft-dodging, dope-smoking, skirt-chasing, money-grubbing (remember those IRS deductions for his underwear?) lying crook, you wouldn’t have believed it. Even political labels are mixed up. "Conservative" and "liberal" have their limitations, but as quick references to where someone stands politically, they’re most helpful. Or at least they used to be. That was changed a couple of weeks ago. After being stung by Senator Dole calling ...

[Here is some real information on GWB, some to his credit, some not.] MODERATOR: Welcome to the Townhall Chat room Mr. Guenthner, could you begin by telling us a little bit about The Lone Star Report? SPEAKER_David_Guenthner: The Lone Star Report is a weekly newsletter devoted to essential news and commentary on Texas politics. We have been in print nearly 3 years. Our newsletter combines the latest breaking news, original policy research, political analysis and intelligence, and pungent commentary. And unlike the rest of the Capitol press, we don't shine Gov. Bush's boots. Not that we aren't fair; we just ...