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MOSCOW, July 8 (Itar-Tass) - "The problem of our relations with countries of the West and NATO is very subtle and delicate : we shall not quarrel with NATO downright, but we do not intend to flirt with it either," Russian President Boris Yeltsin said at ceremony welcoming Russia top officers who were presented to the president on Thursday. "We shall closely follow NATO activities and work out our tactics jointly with you," Yeltsin said, addressing the generals.

Whether or not Gov. George Bush of the great state of Texas is the next President of the United States, his candidacy has illustrated the fault lines between moderates and conservatives in the Republican party.The tension between these two wings is nothing new. It goes back at least as far as the primary race between Senator Taft and the future President Eisenhower. It continued to flame up through the decades, both before and after Ronald Reagan. The two factions have never been easy bedfellows, and after a decade of betrayals the tensions between the two have reached a boiling point. ...

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AUCKLAND, July 8 (AFP) - A New Zealand boys high school whose crest features a bird driven to extinction by a British royal fashion fad is to host an international conference on the ethics and science of cloning the bird back into existence. A live huia has not been seen for 70 years but there are thousands of stuffed huia around the world -- suggesting the possibility of cloning from intact cells. New Zealand scientists are also debating reviving the worlds biggest bird, the moa, which has been extinct for hundreds of years while government scientists have already cloned from ...

Alan Keyes, the nation’s foremost articulator of the principles within our Declaration of Independence, spent a classic Fourth of July weekend in New Hampshire and Iowa. Folks from both the seacoast and lakes regions of New Hampshire joined together to hear Alan Keyes talk about the founding of our country and why we have to return to those principles.Dr. Keyes delivered a classic speech and wowed the crowd when he quoted verbatim, from memory, from the Declaration of Independence. He spoke of its importance to us today and gave out a plan wherein we can return to its principles by ...

July 8, 1999 The Natural By Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal and author of "Simply Speaking" (HarperCollins, 1998). Hand it to her. Hillary Clinton had a spectacular day yesterday as she stood on the edge of a rolling field on Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's upstate farm and announced that she may announce. It was as deft and clever a political presentation as I've seen, a marvel of spin and more. She was poised, articulate, both cool and warm and--a first for her--modest. She was in fact a natural. I watched all morning rapt as ...

Months after allegedly ending the Senate's practice of placing anonymous holds on bills or nominations, Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) has sparked a new controversy by secretly blocking the nomination of Richard Holbrooke to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Senate aides on both sides of the aisle said yesterday that Lott's maneuver violated the spirit of a Feb. 25 agreement requiring Senators to inform the committee of jurisdiction when they place a hold on a bill or a nomination. Common Cause also lashed out yesterday at Lott and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for using their anonymous ...

Hand it to her. Hillary Clinton had a spectacular day yesterday as she stood on the edge of a rolling field on Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's upstate farm and announced that she may announce. It was as deft and clever a political presentation as I've seen, a marvel of spin and more. She was poised, articulate, both cool and warm and--a first for her--modest. She was in fact a natural. I watched all morning rapt as CNN and MSNBC went live, and I think I saw some of what the future will hold. The media presence was huge, a ...

Americans have become cowards. Weak, pitifull victims. In every corner of America, you can be told a story of how somebody was victimized by the Government. The best one being of course that Bill Clinton ruined America by engaging in Oral Sex in the Oval Office. Blame blame blame. Blah blah blah. Rule of Law, Ha ha ha. Somewhere in a smoke-filled room full of men who didn't sleep much and yelled alot, Patrick Henry spoke those awe-inspiring words: "Give me Liberty or give me death." And in reality, while that quote stands by itself as an important artifact of ...

The media's hypocrisy on Bush It is much too early in the 2000 presidential campaign to predict who will next be anointed with the free world's most powerful office of public service -- the presidency of the United States. And, with some 17 months left before I will cast my ballot for the nation's next president, I can't honestly say who I will vote for -- though I know already who won't get my vote (sorry Al -- no how, no way). However, after last Sunday's hit piece in the Los Angeles Times against GOP frontrunner and Texas Governor George ...

Senate confirmation continues to look like a receding target for Richard Holbrooke in his long quest to be U.N. ambassador. Four senators, including Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., are now known to have placed ``holds'' on the veteran diplomat's nomination, putting off a floor vote for an indeterminate period. And more naysayers may be waiting in the wings. Holbrooke, an investment banker and veteran diplomat, was announced for the post in June 1998. When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the nomination late last month, a full year later, it finally looked like clear sailing. But that was not ...

LONDON---Biological and genetic weapons designed to kill specific ethnic or racial groups are no longer the stuff of science fiction, British researchers say. A designer plague that would only kill Serbs or a toxin engineered to affect Israelis or Kurds does not exist yet, but advances in biotechnology and the mapping of all human genes could be used to develop lethal weapons within five to ten years. Fears of such ethnocentric weapons arise as arms control experts from 70 countries ended three weeks of negotiations yesterday with modest progress on the text of an inspection regime to put teeth into ...

LONDON---Biological and genetic weapons designed to kill specific ethnic or racial groups are no longer the stuff of science fiction, British researchers say. A designer plague that would only kill Serbs or a toxin engineered to affect Israelis or Kurds does not exist yet, but advances in biotechnology and the mapping of all human genes could be used to develop lethal weapons within five to ten years. Fears of such ethnocentric weapons arise as arms control experts from 70 countries ended three weeks of negotiations yesterday with modest progress on the text of an inspection regime to put teeth into ...

Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. Meghan, you've been on my mind If you come over, I know you will find We'll have fun, girl…yes, you're the one, girl I understand you're just fourteen That's somewhat young, I will not lie But I am told by aides that 'cause your name's spelled differently That Megan's Law does not apply Oh, oh, oh Meghan, you've been on my mind If you come over, I know you will find We'll have fun, girl…yes, you're the one, girl When you are talking to ...

North Korea is building what appears to be an underground missile-launching base within miles of the Chinese border, a South Korean presidential spokesman told the Washington Post in an interview published Thursday. ``Something is being built in that location, and the South Korean and American military are very concerned about it,'' Chung Eun Sung, press secretary to President Kim Dae Jung, told the newspaper. Chung said that based on intelligence reports, South Korea has a ``well-grounded assumption'' that the site under construction in the mountainous area of Yeongjeo-dong about 12 miles (19 km) from China is a launching platform ...

Does anyone know the time and location of Tripotus visit to Watts, in Los Angeles tomorrow?

WASHINGTON — A week after Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura called for new leadership in Ross Perot's Reform Party, Russ Verney announced Wednesday he would not seek reelection as its chairman later this month. Verney said his decision "was not influenced in the least'' by Ventura, who has threatened to distance himself from the national party unless it embraces his choice as chairman. Ventura, a former professional wrestler elected governor last year as a Reform Party candidate, has also said the party should have someone other than Perot as its 2000 presidential nominee. "I think Jesse Ventura has been misinformed about ...

THE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO UPSTATE By BOB McMANUS ON Day One of Hillary 2000, the reporters swarmed thicker than Adirondack deer flies, and most of them seemed just a little lost. Memo to the crackerjack press corps: Pindars Corners is not a "tiny upstate town" - it's what Pat Moynihan calls his farm. As this campaign stands to last longer than the Siege of Leningrad - it may turn almost as nasty - clearly there is a need for a geography lesson. And not just for the reporters. So here's the short course: That portion at the top of ...

It's always a kick to run into writer's who put words together just the way you would -- if you had the talent, brains, experience. Vin Suprynocicz is one of those writers. Some of his columns are posted here and are required reading. Then I run into this guy: L. Neil Smith. After you read this piece, pay his page a visit: http://webley.zq.com/lneil/index.html And while you're there, make sure to check out http://webley.zq.com/tle/index.html You can thank me later. BW Why Did It Have To Be...Guns? Over the past 30 years, I've been paid to write almost two million words, ...

HILLARY'S RUNNING - FROM BILL, IT SEEMS By MEREDITH BERKMAN CALL me an incurable romantic, but I can't help thinking that there's pathos in the Clintons' conflicting travel schedules this week. The President is winding up his four-day "poverty tour," promising to pour money into parts of the country that have been bypassed by the economic boom. Thousands of miles away, his wife, who has at last formed her Senate campaign exploratory committee, has launched her very own "listening tour" of voters in upstate New York. At least for the moment, it seems like there's not even a pretense ...