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Buchanan calls for expanded border fencing, criticizes Bush on immigration 3.33 p.m. ET (1933 GMT) July 7, 1999 By Mike Glover, Associated Press JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — Commentator Pat Buchanan called Wednesday for expanded security fencing along the southern border with Mexico as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. "The great threat to America, the great crime problem in this nation, the growing crime problem comes from illegal immigration,'' said Buchanan, who is making his third bid for president. "The administration has done little or nothing about it'' and Republicans won't talk about it, he added. He said Texas ...

MORE Humorous Court Transcripts **************************************************************** Q: What is your relationship with the plaintiff? A: She is my daughter. Q: Was she your daughter on February 13, 1979? **************************************************************** Q: ...and what did he do then? A: He came home, and next morning he was dead. Q: So when he woke up the next morning he was dead? **************************************************************** Q: So, after the anesthesia, when you came out of it, what did you observe with respect to your scalp? A: I didn't see my scalp the whole time I was in the hospital. Q: It was covered? A: Yes, bandaged. Q: ...

Clinton Sheds Light On Indian Poverty By Randall Mikkelsen PINE RIDGE S.D. (Reuters) - President Clinton Wednesday became the first president in 63 years to visit American Indian country, touring the hardscrabble Pine Ridge reservation before unveiling programs aimed at reducing the grinding poverty that many Indians face. At Pine Ridge, site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre and home of the poorest county in the nation, the White House was set to introduce more than $1.5 billion in private investment programs and government assistance to boost housing and economic development on Indian reservations. President Franklin Roosevelt was the last ...

SHIPPING BILLIONAIRE, 37, KILLED BY COCAINE – INQUEST 07 July 1999 20:00 Experts today warned of the potentially fatal effects of cocaine following an inquest on a 37-year-old Greek shipping billionaire who died after taking a massive amount of the drug. Constantine Niarchos died after eating and snorting quantities of cocaine in his Mayfair flat last month, Westminster Coroner's Court was told. He was said to have eaten the drug from a bag while he waited for a separate quantity to dry out in a microwave oven. Coroner Dr Paul Knapman recorded a verdict of death by non-dependent abuse of ...

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 staff had asked supporters to hold off making ...

Learn a Lesson from Australia's Mistake: Say 'No' to More Gun Control Steve Stakem TheOrator.com With the antigun lobby losers after the US House of Representatives failed to pass any of their own, and the Senate's, suggested gun control measures, now seems like the time to remind people how lucky we are because of that. Surely the Clintons, McCarthys, O'Donnells and Shalalas of this world aren't about to shut their traps after the defeat of the proposals they supported. Alas they will scream and holler right into the 2000 general elections, trying once again to chip away at your individual ...

SAN FRANCISCO In the cusp of a new century, Americans give themselves a somewhat surprising report card on the one just ending. In evaluating their greatest accomplishments of the 1900s, people think the civil rights movement and the advent of Social Security were nice. So too was winning World War II. But Americans are proudest of the century's advances in technology, according to an ambitious survey just out from the Pew Research Center in Washington. While reverence for technology fits neatly into the United States' culture and history, the age of the computer has deepened that faith to a ...

This is a sheer vanity post--but didn't find that listed! Anyway, I need you people out there to tell me if my foil hat is causing me to see a conspiracy everywere I go. Maybe I'm wearing it too tight! Here's what happened:I was nonchalantly running errands in a rather large strip shopping center in Plano about an hour ago. As I was returning to my car, a very loud male voice boomed over some enhanced audio system, but where it was coming from, I never did figure out. This voice said "Attention, attention, attention! This is the Plano Civil ...

Worker gene tests could save health care dollars NEW YORK, Jul 07 (Reuters) -- Genetic testing of workers to determine their risk for job-related disease raises difficult legal questions, but could be cost-effective in situations where it prevents many cases of disease, according to a report published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. But the overall cost-effectiveness of work-related genetic screening programs would ``vary greatly from one set of circumstances to another,'' write Dr. Mark Nicas and Geoffrey Lomax of the University of California, Berkeley. Recent genetic research suggests that some individuals may be especially vulnerable to specific ...

LISLE, Ill., July 7 (UPI) - The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission says (Wednesday) that safety systems at all 103 operating nuclear power plants in the nation are ready for the Year 2000 problem. The NRC says none of the facilities have Y2K-related safety problems although 35 plants must complete work on non-safety-related computer systems.

DJINDJIC CALLS FOR MASS PROTESTS. Some 10,000 people attended a protest in Uzice on 6 July to demand Milosevic's resignation, free elections, and an end to controls over the media, RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported. Democratic Party leader Zoran Djindjic called for two to three months of street protests in "free cities" across Serbia to oust the Yugoslav president. Djindjic proposed the following scenario: "The people go onto the streets, the Church calls the people to go onto the streets.... Serbia as a whole is in a state of civil disobedience and general strike. He goes." Djindjic added: "I can ...

WASHINGTON--This column is about America's walk on the moon and the untold story of one of the most poignant presidential speeches in American history--a speech that never had to be delivered. In two weeks, this country will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the day when Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. stepped onto the surface of the moon. Over the past three decades, many of the details of that epic trip have been told over and over again in books and movies. And so, naturally, we now take it as a given that the trip was destined to ...

According to Fox News, every single stop on Hillary's "Listening Tour" is using "pre-selected" audiences. In other words, only people who will say what Hillary wants to hear are allowed in. Not even elected and already Hillary is ignoring much of the potential constituency.

CHICAGO (AP) - Racial shooting rampage suspect Benjamin Smith warned in a recent video that violence and terrorism was ``inevitable.'' The video was shown today on ABC's ``Good Morning America,'' which told viewers ABC News had purchased it. The network didn't disclose how much it paid but ABC News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said later it was made by a student documentary filmmaker working on a project on white supremacy groups in Illinois. ABC said the video was recorded three weeks ago. Smith is seen driving his car in Peoria and tossing pamphlets out the window while complaining of police ...

How seriously should we take President Clinton's latest Medicare initiative? As with everything he does, this gambit carries an effective political hook -- in this case, Medicare coverage for prescription drugs. Clinton also proposed what's billed as a major restructuring of Medicare itself. He calls for spending $794 billion more at the program over the next decade and a half, yet even that will only allow Medicare to continue to 2027, a dozen years beyond its currently projected belly-up date. Yet if Clinton is serious about restructuring Medicare, why did he walk away from the recommendations of the bipartisan ...

Republican presidential hopeful George W Bush received a $300,000 birthday present Tuesday, along with the solid support of Republican state party leadership and the backing of some Democrats as well.About 25 Colorado Hispanic leaders turned out to welcome the Texas governor and son of former President Bush.Bush, who turned 53 Tuesday, was greeted at Centennial Airport by several hundred people singing Happy Birthday.Greeting the group in Spanish, he quickly switched to a Texas twang and said,"You know what?There's quite a few Democrats standing up here. We welcome 'm. My message for America includes everybody." Among those sharing the dais with ...

It is easy to control the minds of a people. All one has to do is change history by lying about the past. This is exactly what has happened with the legacy of former Democratic U.S. Senator Al Gore, Sr. of Tennessee - the father of our current vice president - and his mythical "support" of civil rights. In a recent speech to the NAACP, Vice President Gore said his father lost his Senate seat because he supported civil rights legislation. Fellow black Americans, let me set history straight. Al Gore, Sr., together with the rest of the southern Democrats, ...

Bush Adviser Chose Foreign Policy Over Mozart By Alan Elsner, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Texas Gov. George W. Bush wins next year's presidential election, many eyes will be trained on Condoleezza Rice, one of his chief foreign policy advisers. Rice, 44, is a rarity in Republican Party politics. A black woman who was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, she grew up dreaming of a career as a concert pianist before becoming an expert on the Soviet Union and a key adviser in the administration of President George Bush, the governor's father. ``I was probably the only little girl ...

Bush Adviser Chose Foreign Policy Over Mozart By Alan Elsner, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Texas Gov. George W. Bush wins next year's presidential election, many eyes will be trained on Condoleezza Rice, one of his chief foreign policy advisers. Rice, 44, is a rarity in Republican Party politics. A black woman who was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, she grew up dreaming of a career as a concert pianist before becoming an expert on the Soviet Union and a key adviser in the administration of President George Bush, the governor's father. ``I was probably the only little girl ...

White House Hopeful Bradley Ready To Go On TV By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley, who normally addresses crowds of a few dozen while on the campaign trail, will speak to an estimated 6 million people Friday when he steps on stage at NBC's ``Tonight Show with Jay Leno.'' Bradley's appearance will coincide with plans to crank up what has been thus far his low-key campaign against Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination. ``Campaigns have a certain rhythm, and ours is starting a gradual buildup,'' Eric Hauser, Bradley's press secretary, said Wednesday. ...