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Scientists Offer Explanation for Alien Abductions By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF TOKYO -- About once a week, Jean-Christophe Terrillon wakes up and senses the presence of a threatening, evil being beside his bed. Terror ripples through him, and he tries to move or call out. But he is paralyzed, unable to raise an arm or make a sound. His ears ring, a weight presses down on his chest, and he has to struggle for breath. "I feel an intense pressure in my head, as if it's going to explode," said Mr. Terrillon, a Canadian physicist doing research in Japan. Sometimes he ...

Clinton Begins Tour of Hard-Pressed Areas With Pledge to the Needy By JOHN M. BRODER HAZARD, Ky. -- The Clinton Years have been lush for lawyers, investment bankers and high-tech entrepreneurs. But pockets of America remain largely untouched by the prosperity of the 1990s and President Clinton is devoting much of this week to bringing them compassion and new jobs. Here in eastern Kentucky, where poverty and unemployment run two to three times higher than the national averages, the president Sunday presented a package of proposals intended to spur investment among the idle coal fields. Clinton hopes to use federal ...

WASHINGTON TALK: In Shadow of Republicans' Dole, Democrats Seek a Woman By FRANK BRUNI WASHINGTON -- The name game always starts with Senator Dianne Feinstein, which is no surprise. With her high profile and decades of political experience, Senator Feinstein, a California Democrat, has long been considered a credible Vice-Presidential candidate. But can the same be said for Representative Nita M. Lowey, a Westchester Democrat little known outside New York? Or Senator Mary L. Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat with all of two and a half years in national politics? Or Lieut. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend of Maryland, who plays second ...

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Plenty of Dirty Jobs in Modern Politics and a New Breed of Diggers By DOUGLAS FRANTZ Feeding an almost insatiable demand for negative information in today's world of bruising politics, private investigators are playing a larger -- though mostly hidden -- role in the public arena, digging up dirt on everyone from regulators to elected national and small-town officials. President Clinton's use of private detectives has been widely reported. But an examination by The New York Times found that over the past decade they had moved into every corner of public life, hired by politicians and their surrogates, including Senator ...

Gore Campaign, Trailing Among Women, Sharpens Its Pitch to Them By MELINDA HENNEBERGER WASHINGTON -- The first thing Al Gore mentioned in every speech last week was that his oldest daughter was past her due date and about to make him and his wife of 29 years grandparents. (Wyatt Gore Schiff, 6 pounds 3 ounces, finally arrived on the Fourth of July, timing that he will surely mention in future speeches.) The second thing he told crowds was that he had been reared by a mother who grew up poor, got on a bus to Nashville with her blind sister ...

After serious consideration, America's major TV networks have taken a pass on making a movie on the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Click here (while it's up)...

Accord With NATO Lets Moscow Add Troops in Kosovo By STEVEN LEE MYERS with MICHAEL WINES WASHINGTON -- NATO and Russian military commanders resolved their differences over Russia's role in the peacekeeping operation in Kosovo Monday, clearing the way for about 3,600 more Russian troops to arrive in the Serbian province after weeks of wrangling. The first planeloads of Russian paratroopers could begin arriving as soon as Tuesday at Kosovo's main airport west of the capital, Pristina, alliance and Russian officials said. There they will join several hundred Russian troops who have hunkered down there since they entered Serbia on ...

YELTSIN TO STEP DOWN NEXT YEAR MOSCOW: President Boris Yeltsin says he is ready to step down when his term expires next year and will turn over power "with an easy mind," according to an interview to be published today. Speaking to the respected daily Izvestia, Yeltsin played down concerns that he would ban the Communist Party and said a new regime should come to power after "an honest and open election struggle, " reports AP. "New leaders, young and energetic and with new governing ideas, must emerge," he said. "We need fresh forces to tackle the new challenges ...

Daily Telegraph Opinion Way of the World Tell us more lies ON FRIDAY, Nato finally admitted that the Americans had "probably exaggerated" the number of Yugoslav tanks that had been hit by the 79-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. It is interesting that Nato puts all the blame for this exaggeration on the Americans. In fact, it was the Nato information machine which assured us that 122 tanks had been destroyed. The latest figures suggest that 13 tanks were hit. When the Serbs eventually withdrew, at least 250 tanks were counted. Not much is to be gained by trying to ...

Chester T Gildea was a simple man. Like his father before him, he believed in honor, family, God and country. So when he died on a cold November day almost three years ago, his family thought his country would give the World War II veteran something back. Instead, on the day of his funeral, the Army called to say it would not be able to send a military funeral honor guard to his Cinnaminson gravesite. So as Gildea'a casket was lowered into the gournd, only his closeset relatives were there to pay tribute to the 74-year-old Wahington man's service in ...

Castro Shows His Stripes Tuesday, July 6, 1999; Page A14 IN A NEAR-clinical experiment, Canada set out to test the possibilities of using its foreign policy to alter the interior environment in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Convinced that the longtime American policy of pressure and embargo was ineffective and counterproductive, the Canadians undertook with openness, aid and investment to induce Fidel Castro to improve his record on human rights and democracy. Prime Minister Jean Chretien personnaly intervened in the case of four prominent Cuban dissidents who had been arrested for sedition for criticizing the ruling Communist Party. The results are now ...

Text of conversation between (CIA asset) Barry Seal and Terry Reed (author and CIA flying instructor) in Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA, pg. 212.: Reed: "What's this blackmail you're talking about?" Seal: "Ever hear the old expression, it's not what ya know, it's who ya know? Well, whoever said that hadn't caught the Vice President's kids in the dope business, 'cause I can tell ya for sure WHAT ya know can definitely be more important that WHO ya know." Reed: "You gotta calm down and tell me what you're talking about, if you want me to know. What's this ...

The womyn at NOW and their media partners won't want this to be widely publicized. Second article down on leftBy the way, the title was mine

Sermons on the Stump . . . By Richard Cohen Tuesday, July 6, 1999; Page A15 Through sources I cannot mention, by methods I will not divulge, I have a letter -- a copy actually -- in which a political figure responds to questions about his religious views put to him by a leading Christian activist. He says that while he finds "the morals and . . . religion" of Jesus to be "the best the world ever saw or is like to see," he has "some doubts as to his Divinity." This well-known person even confesses that he doesn't ...

Rules Not Made to Be Broken By Geneva Overholser Tuesday, July 6, 1999; Page A15 Bob Woodward has a new book out, and the usual; buzz is on: How does he get all these people to talk to him? Who gave him this insight or that quote? And what of the challenges by some sources, who don't like what their off-the-record talk turned into in "Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate"? Meanwhile, I'm wondering something different: What's the impact on journalism of the unorthodox methods of America's best-known reporter? The media have been suffering a credibility slide, which ...

Special Counsel Rules Tuesday, July 6, 1999; Page A14 THOSE WHO were keen to see the independent counsel law expire should take a look at the regulations Attorney General Janet Reno promulgated to replace it. The message Congress sent with its refusal to reauthorize some form of the statute is that it has no interest in trying to write the rules for sensitive investigations of high-level wrongdoing. The executive branch is, therefore, free to do as it pleases. Ms. Reno has done just that. Her rules roll back the traditional independence special prosecutors have been given, allowing the attorney general ...

Report: EEOC Data Flawed: Trends in Federal Worker Complaints Ignored, GAO Says By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 6, 1999; Page A13 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission fails to monitor basic job discrimination trends among federal workers, and what data it collects are often flawed, according to a recent General Accounting Office report. While federal workers lodged 28,947 discrimination complaints in 1997, the agency cannot say how many individuals were involved, whether bias was based on race, sex, religion or other factors, or what actions triggered the allegations, the GAO said. Investigators also found that ...

BY MICHAEL BARONE Taking her seriously Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for senator in 2000 but is surely thinking about running for president in 2004 or 2008. So it's fair to ask what her record tells us about how she would govern in her own right. She has been a national public figure for 30 years, since her speech at the 1969 Wellesley commencement was quoted and her picture run in Life magazine. She may have grown up among the several hundred thousand orange brick bungalows neatly lining grid streets in metro Chicago. But the course of her public career ...

Heaven Help Political Journalists By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane Tuesday, July 6, 1999; Page A13 Like manna from heaven, the Ethics and Public Policy Center has received $925,000 from the Pew Charitable Trusts to bring religion to one of the most godless groups this side of the flaming abyss: political reporters. "The concern here was that political reporters were covering religion in public life but lacking information about religious people. Like what is a fundamentalist? What does the pope believe?" said Michael Cromartie, director of the center's Evangelical Studies Project. The center will use the grant to fund a ...