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HILLARY'S N.Y. TRIP A CASE OF EXPLORATORY 'URGERY' By GREGG BIRNBAUM ALBANY - She's off and running. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton today will officially launch her exploratory committee for a possible U.S. Senate campaign as she prepares to kick off a four-day barnstorming tour of heavily Republican upstate New York. Legal papers creating the committee will be filed with the Federal Election Commission in Washington so that Clinton can begin raising political cash to pay for her trips to New York. The "Hillary Rodham Clinton for U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee" is a formality, but signals the seriousness of the ...

GORE CLAN GOES 4TH AND MULTIPLIES By DEBORAH ORIN and ANNA COCK "Gramps" Al Gore won't have any trouble remembering his first grandchild's birthday - he's a Yankee Doodle baby and a native New Yorker, to boot. Little Wyatt Gore Schiff - son of the vice president's eldest daughter, Karenna, 25, and her husband, Andrew Schiff - was born July 4 at 10:05 a.m. at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell campus. Baby Wyatt, 6 pounds 3 ounces and 20 inches long, arrived a week after his official "due" date. The veep and wife Tipper are taking time off the 2000 campaign ...

Senate a Haven for Senior Citizens By JIM ABRAMS .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Ernest Hollings, 77, last year handily defeated a challenger exactly half his age to extend his record of being a junior senator longer than any man in history. The South Carolina Democrat has been in the Senate for 33 years, going back to the Johnson administration. Still, he is far outranked by his 96-year-old Republican colleague Strom Thurmond, who entered the Senate in 1954. In a nation that puts a premium on youth, the Senate remains a bastion of senior power. Including Thurmond ...

The rocky relations between NATO and Russia have, for the moment at least, found level ground again. The two sides have resolved their dispute over peacekeeping deployments in Kosovo and Russian reinforcements can resume flights to Pristina. But the truce is an uneasy one, in a climate of the worst distrust and enmity between the two former arch-rivals since the Cold War. Russia has infuriated NATO in recent days: NATO had accused Moscow of seeking to expand its area of influence into the Italian-patrolled sector of Kosovo. And last week, Russian strategic bombers flew into NATO's air defences near Iceland. ...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- After playing five World Cup games in two weeks, the U.S. and Chinese women won't be complaining about four straight days of practice. They'll practically relish the break from competition. The Chinese, who have been the strongest team in the tournament, crisscrossed the country so often they probably have enough frequent flyer miles to get back home for free. The Americans didn't have such travel woes, but they had far more difficult knockout-round games. Nor are these teams used to such a frenetic playing schedule. Indeed, the women will have played six games in three weeks ...

A thoughtful reader, Allan Hoving, sent me a note asking an intriguing question: Was Kosovo actually World War III? "OK, so it was a short one, as world wars go, just 80 days," he wrote. "But think about it: There was genocide by indicted war criminals, and the threat of nuclear war. Nearly every major power was involved -- even China. And historic realignments have emerged. . . . All this without a single allied combat casualty -- not too shabby for a world war." The truth is Kosovo was not comparable to World War I or II. Those ...

July 6, 1999 Networks Cover Pro Wrestling Over Chinese Espionage By L. Brent Bozell III, chairman of the Media Research Center. On May 25, the Cox report on Chinese espionage was released. The report, which enjoyed unanimous, bipartisan support in Congress, revealed perhaps the most serious nuclear security breach in history. The panel listed 11 cases of espionage, of which eight took place during the Clinton era. At least 24 times, the declassified version of the report states: "The Clinton administration has determined further information cannot be made public," especially when the subject dealt with espionage in the mid-to-late ...

Do populists really pine for sound money? As I visit local radio shows to discuss my new book, we often hear from a group of fellows who assert all the troubles in the world can be traced to the Federal Reserve. The punchline of these jeremiads is usually: "And did you realize the Federal Reserve Board is actually a private corporation?!" Well yes-though it's certainly an unusual one. But when I ask in turn, "OK, assume everything you say is true. What does it change? What should we do about it?" the response is rarely more than a mouselike: ...

Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. (1-2-3-4…1-2-3-4…1-2-3-4) They're gonna need exorcism…call up the priest, exorcism They're gonna need exorcism…call up the priest, exorcism (La-la-la-la…la-la-la-la…la-la-la-la…la-la) Because Satan grows where Hillary goes New Yorkers all know it's true She's an evil…evil presence Because Satan grows where Hillary goes New Yorkers all know it's true Oh yes some people followed…they believed Oh yes some people swallowed…they're deceived She's an evil…evil presence Because Satan grows where Hillary goes New Yorkers all know 'Cause Satan grows where Hillary goes New Yorkers all know it's true ...

Court rulings shield states By Claire Cooper Bee Legal Affairs Writer (Published July 5, 1999) In a series of revolutionary states' rights decisions last month, the U.S. Supreme Court sharply curtailed the right of private parties to sue when the states pay them below the federal minimum wage, expose them to toxic contamination or violate an untold number of federal statutes that have given people critical legal protections. With few exceptions, suits seeking monetary damages for state violations of federal laws no longer can be filed in state courts, the high court said. And since it had ruled three years ...

Weicker considering Reform Party presidential bid From News Services GREENWICH, CONN. -- Five winters ago, Lowell Weicker moved out of the Connecticut governor's mansion, apparently ending a 30-year career as one of the nation's best-known political mavericks. At 6 feet 6 and with a voice to match, he had tormented the Republican Party from within as a U.S. senator, then led Connecticut as that uncommon political animal, an independent. After leaving Hartford, he settled into life at Applejack Farm, a former orchard. But he never lost his taste for the game that had been his life. He flirted with ...

EDITORIALCrunchtime for the IRShink again if you believed that the IRS has reformed its ways in the aftermath of the devastating congressional hearings in the fall of 1997 which revealed a state of affairs at the agency so bad that the new IRS commissioner, Charles Rossotti, felt compelled to issue an official apology. The agency still shows disturbing signs of being heavily politicized, a tool for the Clinton administration to apply with a heavy hand to its critics on the right.     As will be recalled, a great number of conservative nonprofit organizations have found themselves slapped with IRS audits during the ...

Here she is. I ran into a problem so the timeline only runs until January 1998, however. I should have the rest fixed shortly. I hope you like it. Enjoy. JANUARY 1993: - President Clinton takes office. - Clinton signs Presidential Decision Directive 2 (PDD 2) that approved a National Security Council (NSC) decision-making system that enlarged the membership of the NSC. The new membership of the NSC included the Treasury Secretary, the U.S. Representative to the U.N., the Asst. to the President for National Security Affairs, the Asst. to the President for Economic Policy, and the Chief of Staff ...

E D I T O R I A L S 'The Animating Contest For Freedom' Date: 7/6/99 This July 4th we celebrate once again the beginning of an amazing venture - the American experiment in ordered liberty. In the conflict and tumult of politics today it is easy to forget the spirit of 1776 and the ideas on which this nation was founded. We must not. Two revolutions contend for the American soul. The first exploded onto the world stage when Thomas Jefferson's quill touched parchment. The American Revolution was already in motion, of course. But it soared to majestic ...

For educational and discussion purposes only. My title used above. Protests against Milosevic grow; NATO, Russia reach new accord PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - In the latest sign of growing anger at President Slobodan Milosevic's government, up to 10,000 chanting protesters took to the streets in a southern Serbian town on Monday. Meanwhile, Moscow and NATO reached a deal that opens to way for more Russian troops to deploy in Kosovo as part of the peacekeeping force there. Local media said about 20,000 people marched through the southern Serbian town of Leskovac about 150 miles south of Belgrade to demand change and ...

Court Bans Bizarre Curriculum in New York Schools June 30, 1999 column by: Phyllis Schlafly Parents have won another remarkable victory over the psychological abuse of children that takes place in public school classrooms. It isn't the court decision that's so remarkable; it's the evidence of what was actually going on inside the schools. A federal district judge in White Plains, NY, ruled last month that the Bedford Central School District must stop requiring schoolchildren to create paper images of a Hindu god, to make toothpick and yarn "worry dolls" to ward off anxiety, and to take part in Earth ...

0151 GMT, 990706 Russia – In the July 6 edition of the Russian paper Izvestia, Russian President Boris Yeltsin said he still plans to step down next year after the elections, and called for new leaders in Russia. Yeltsin was quoted as saying, "New leaders, young and energetic and with new governing ideas, must emerge. We need fresh forces to tackle the new challenges of a new century." When asked if he was planning on banning the Communist Party, Yeltsin replied, "I think the Communists have banned themselves on their own. They have failed politically. They are losing chances of ...

Supreme Court Folly By CHARLES FRIED Congress misbehaves. It does heedless, self-promoting things, like making it a Federal crime to bring a gun to a public school or to commit an act of violence against a woman. Guns in schools and violence against women are national problems only in the sense that they are problems everywhere, but state law everywhere makes them crimes and unlike, say, securities fraud or organized crime, there is nothing about Federal courts and Federal prosecutions that makes them particularly apt engines of solution. Even when a problem requires a national solution, like the siting of ...

ABROAD AT HOME / By ANTHONY LEWIS Back to a Republican System When Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation ended in a lame plea bargain last week, it was with an air of unreality that we remembered what Mr. Starr had put this country through. A year of prosecutorial inquisition over the sexual antics of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. Impeachment of the President. A Senate trial. It all seems fantastic now -- and hard to believe that a single prosecutor could have so distorted our constitutional system. What drove Kenneth Starr? Many tried to puzzle out this bland figure as he ...

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the National Education Association Representative Assembly today and called for greater support and resources for public education and teachers. Mrs. Clinton received wild applause for virtually every point she made and received several standing ovations. But it was the non-reaction of the assembly when she delivered fulsome praise for the nation's charter schools that was the only unplanned-for incident during the entire speech. "I also hope you will continue to stand behind the charter school public school movement," Mrs. Clinton began, "because I believe that parents do deserve greater choice within the public school ...