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IT JUST GOES ON AND ON, this amazing saga of "Dubya, Son of the New World Order." The exciting sequel to "Poppy, the Pastel President" stars George W. Bush in the title role. "Dubya" is Texas talk for the governor's middle initial, used to distinguish the future from the former President. It's easier than saying "the one who hasn't burned his lips on a tax pledge yet." The Bush campaign appears to be taking the nomination for granted, though the heir to the throne will no doubt come around to shake more hands and slap more backs in New ...

You can't turn on political talk shows these days without seeing the man who will one day be president of the United States, Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, formerly known as Jesse "The Body" Ventura, pro wrestler. What a unique breath of fresh air this guy is. Smart, wise, grounded, articulate, charismatic, an original thinker; he makes all the other politicians seem like self-serving, hypocritical, careerists which for the most part they are. Ventura is right for these politically-cynical times and although he's refusing all attempts to get him to admit an eventual interest in the presidency, the court ...

In a survey sponsored by the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, 53 percent, of those surveyed said they believe the press has too much freedom, an increase of 15 percentage points since 1997. It is difficult to know whether the results point out a growing frustration with media content or a genuine belief that Americans are getting more information than they need. Does the survey show that people are dissatisfied with the quality of news reporting or that they simply believe movies are too violent and daytime television is out of control? The poll does seem to make ...

WASHINGTON - The Associated Press: The images hark back to 1994's universal health-care debate: Families can't afford health insurance; workers worry the boss will drop their coverage. But this time it's businesses and insurance companies, not advocates for the poor, trying to sway the health-care discussion by championing the uninsured. Their chief goal is to stop the so-called patients' bill of rights, which would give Americans without insurance new power in dealing with HMOs. They argue that the new rights, while wildly popular, will raise the cost of insurance and force some employers to eliminate their employees' coverage. The argument ...

SLA fugitive may waive extradition Gov. Jesse Ventura signed extradition papers Tuesday to return Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Kathleen Soliah, known to her St. Paul friends and neighbors as Sara Jane Olson, to California, where she faces an indictment that alleges she tried to blow up two Los Angeles police cars in 1975. The 52-year-old mother of three is scheduled to appear July 15 in Ramsey County District Court for a hearing on the extradition request. However, an attorney representing her said Tuesday that the matter could be resolved as early as this week. "It appears that extradition is ...

(UPI Focus) Hillary wants to raise $20 million SYRACUSE, N.Y., July 6 (UPI) - The man who broke fund-raising records for Bill Clinton's 1996 presidential race is now the head of fund- raising for Hillary Rodham Clinton's still unofficial U.S. Senate bid in New York. Terence McAuliffe, who calls himself the first lady's campaign- finance quarterback, told the Syracuse Post-Standard today the first lady wants to raise $20 million for her race for the Senate. That's $4 million more than Brooklyn Democrat Charles Schumer spent on his senate race last year to unseat Republican Alfonse D'Amato. McAuliffe said Clinton's ...

Sometimes I just have to pinch myself and ask, "Is this the end of Western civilization as we've known it?" My latest 'decline-and-fall' moment came the Sunday before last, standing in the oppressive mid-day heat with thousands of other camera-toting suburbanites who came pouring into the heart of downtown Toronto to gawk and cheer at the hedonistic spectacle of Ontario's largest Gay Pride Parade ever. Comments I overheard indicated many of the rubberneckers weren't there to support gay rights, but to gape at an exhibitionist freak show. I was there to verify or refute reports about just how raunchy ...

WASHINGTON - The 13 House members who served as prosecutors in the impeachment trial of President Clinton have established their own Web site and political action committee to raise money for themselves and other Republicans targeted by Clinton supporters. An initial goal of the "House Managers PAC" is to develop a base of at least 500,000 people who will provide contributions and volunteer support for Republican candidates across the United States. "It's an on-line, grass-roots organization designed to harvest thousands and thousands of e-mail addresses to help conservatives be organized on line," says Mark Emerson, chief of staff for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Clinton has had a rocky time with his diplomatic nominations, and now another selection appears in trouble: that of retired Adm. Joseph W. Prueher as ambassador to China. He can't blame the Senate this time. Instead, in an apparent lapse of protocol, the administration neglected to tell the Chinese about the proposed nomination before it became widely reported. Even today, a Chinese Embassy official said that China has yet to be consulted. Still furious about the U.S. bombing of their embassy in Yugoslavia, Chinese officials reportedly have registered displeasure at the snub, according to congressional ...

Taliban says US sanctions 'attack against Muslim people' AMIR SHAH Associated Press DISTRIBUTION: Europe;Britian;Scandinavia;England;Africa July 07, 1999; Wednesday 04:29 Eastern Time Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said Wednesday they did not know the whereabouts of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and called U.S. sanctions an ''attack against Muslim people.'' ''We are the government, we are in Afghanistan and we don't know where Bin Laden is but Clinton who is thousands of miles away he says he knows here he is. U.S. President Bill Clinton signed an executive order Monday imposing financial sanctions against Afghanistan's Taliban rulers in retaliation for their reputed ...

In her new book, "The Corruption of American Politics," Elizabeth Drew, the veteran Washington journalist, has a searing description of what has happened to the nation's capital since she and I began working here and became friends. "Indisputably," she writes, "the greatest change in Washington over the past 25 years . . . has been in the preoccupation with money. . . . It has transformed politics and it has subverted values. It has led good people to do things that are morally questionable, if not reprehensible. It has cut a deep gash, if not inflicted a mortal wound, ...

Philadelphia Justice A case heard in a Philadelphia courtroom this Thursday will say a lot about how the right of political expression is handled in the city that will host the Republican National Convention next year. Last October, Philadelphia law enforcement moved glacially to charge two Teamsters who attacked anti-Clinton protesters outside a Presidential appearance. Now this week, the man they beat the most severely will himself go on trial on what appear to be trumped-up charges that he struck a female Teamster. "Teamsters For Clinton," in Philadelphia, Oct. 2, 1998 Television cameras captured the entire incident in which the ...

Philadelphia Justice A case heard in a Philadelphia courtroom this Thursday will say a lot about how the right of political expression is handled in the city that will host the Republican National Convention next year. Last October, Philadelphia law enforcement moved glacially to charge two Teamsters who attacked anti-Clinton protesters outside a Presidential appearance. Now this week, the man they beat the most severely will himself go on trial on what appear to be trumped-up charges that he struck a female Teamster. "Teamsters For Clinton," in Philadelphia, Oct. 2, 1998 Television cameras captured the entire incident in which the ...

NEW YORK, July 7 (Itar-Tass) - Leaders of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) deny full recognition of legal rights to the United Nations civilian administration in Kosovo and even threaten to take up arms again if the United Nations opposes the territory's striving for independence. Such is the gist of statements of militants' leaders expressing KLA's reaction to the appointment of Bernard Kouchner as chief of the UN mission in Kosovo last Saturday. His purpose is to restore civilian rule in Kosovo, the Wall Street Journal whites. KLA political leader Hashim Thaqi who proclaims himself head of the Kosovo ...

July 7, 1999 Reappoint Greenspan Now By Lawrence B. Lindsey, a former governor of the Federal Reserve. He is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. A week ago the Federal Open Market Committee raised interest rates for the first time in 21/2 years. Under different circumstances, this would probably have had a dampening effect, yet the markets rallied sharply, taking comfort in the perception that the Federal Reserve would not raise rates again soon. Commodity prices, led by gold, copper and oil, all jumped significantly, as did the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which closed Friday at a ...

July 7, 1999 Philadelphia Justice A case heard in a Philadelphia courtroom this Thursday will say a lot about how the right of political expression is handled in the city that will host the Republican National Convention next year. Last October, Philadelphia law enforcement moved glacially to charge two Teamsters who attacked anti-Clinton protesters outside a Presidential appearance. Now this week, the man they beat the most severely will himself go on trial on what appear to be trumped-up charges that he struck a female Teamster. Television cameras captured the entire incident in which the Philadelphia Daily News reported ...

The Tories today stepped up their campaign for an inquiry into Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia, claiming that allied planes had inflicted only light damage on the Serbian war machine. Shadow Defence Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said senior military figures now supported their calls for an inquiry and there was evidence that the Yugoslav army was far from destroyed by the 11-week bombing campaign. Mr Duncan Smith stressed, on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, that the Conservatives supported the campaign and the British troops in Kosovo. But he said Labour politicians had claimed one of the military aims was to debilitate ...

This comic strip is the perfect commentary on social promotion, education unions, and performance pay.

ITAR- TASS info- Jordan newspaper" Al Mardje" has published on Tuesday that idea about NATO troops presence in Egipt ,Jordan, Mauritania , Tunis and Maroc was under consideration during President Mubarack visit to Washington.Clinton has offered to Mubarack to concider this opportunity with his collegues. "Al mardje" has stated that consultations with Algeria on the same issue question were in place. Some unnamed US official has said that he knows nothing about this.

AN inquiry was launched last night into claims that organs from a donor were accepted on the condition that they went to white patients. Frank Dobson, the Health Secretary, announced the investigation into the circumstances of the donation at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield. Last July a number of organs were taken from one person and it was agreed that they would only be given to white patients. No details of the donor were available last night. Whether it was the Northern General Hospital or the UK Transplant Support Service Authority, which administers the transplant system, which had agreed ...