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Clinton Offers Hope to South L.A. By SONYA ROSS .c The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - President Clinton took his campaign to promote investment in economically distressed areas to a Los Angeles neighborhood still recovering from deadly race riots today to highlight the need to invest directly in the people who live in impoverished communities. The president visited the community of Watts, scarred by riots nearly 30 years apart, to make the case today for private firms to help disadvantaged young people gain the skills they need for high-tech jobs in the new millennium. ``We can put in place ...

Today Hillary made stops in Central New York: Clinton- a small New England like town and home of a top ranked liberal arts college( Hamilton). Essentially a town of professors, teachers, administration and townies who are a largely liberal leaning group. Utica- a city which has been hammered by the Clinton economy as well as having a large senior population and many children who are children to their own.

House GOP Wants Education Tax Cuts By CURT ANDERSON .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Continuing a weeklong trickle of announcements, House Republicans said Thursday that tax breaks to help pay for private education and public school construction will be part of their tax cut bill. The latest proposal from Rep. Bill Archer, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, sets the GOP on a collision course with President Clinton, who vetoed a bill with similar private school benefits last year. But Archer, R-Texas, said the measure - a priority for Republican conservatives - would ``lighten the education ...

Al Gore Goes a-Courting... the Woman Voter Rebuffed by nearly every other group, the veep is casting his lot with the female half of the nation Why, at almost every campaign opportunity, does Al Gore mention his mother, his wife, his daughters and his granddaughter? Why does he keep making a raft of promises, from gun control to education to child care, that may well constitute the most female-attuned agenda of any presidential candidate ever? The answer: He desperately needs women's votes. "The truth is that Gore is simply not doing well with anybody in the polls," says TIME White ...

PACIFICA CRISIS Not only are the operating heads of NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ex-government propagandists, not only is the chair of the Pacifica board a Clinton appointee and buddy, but the chair of CPB is closely linked to the Clintons as well. Bob Feldman has uncovered this passage from 'Blood Sport' by James Stewart about Diane Kincaid-Blair: "Kincaid had known Bill Clinton since 1972, when she was vice chairman of the Arkansas delegation to the Democratic National Convention .... Hillary and Diane liked to play tennis, sometimes joined by Jim Blair...Ten years older than the Clintons, he ...

NATO's 78-day air war on Serbia took a heavy toll on the U.S. Air Force, and some units could take eight months to resume full training and combat readiness, a top Air Force official said on Thursday. ``It's going to take us some time to recover out of that and come back up'' to normal training and deployment, the official told reporters in discussing the campaign, for which the United States provided most of a NATO force of 1,000 warplanes. ``About a six months recovery period is what we're looking at. It goes from anywhere from 90 days for ...

Here they are folks, those who have been "honored" after appearing on Sunday's news shows PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLY Be sure to check out the "THINKING MAN" cartoon at the bottom of the page. Thanks.

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Online Racial Divide Grows By Ted Bridis Associated Press Writer Thursday, July 8, 1999; 3:58 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The disparity on the Internet between whites and black and Hispanic Americans is growing toward a ``racial ravine,'' in many cases even after accounting for differences in income, a new government report said Thursday. The Commerce Department's latest survey, ``Falling Through the Net,'' showed dramatic gains in the number of Americans who own computers and use the Internet. But it also cited money, education and whether a person lives in an urban area as key factors affecting whether they ...

Helping hand or the big hurt? Would President Bill Clinton help or hurt the first lady's Senate bid? Yes. He would help. No. He would hurt her campaign. VOTE HERE http://www.msnbc.com/news/156460.asp

not for commercial purposes - for information & discussion onlyLAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- Teachers scolded Ruby Melancon and classmates constantly teased her because she spoke only French when she started school in the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country."They always said we were stupid, poor and uneducated,", said Ms. Melancon, who has now spoken English for 63 of her 69 years, but still has a French accent.Now it's cool to be Cajun, and they're planning their second Congres Mondial Acadien Louisiane, or World Acadian Congress Louisiana, for tens of thousands of French-speaking Americans and Canadians, plus friends and relatives from as ...

By John McWethy ABCNEWS.com S H A W A I R F O R C E B A S E, S.C., July 7 — In the 78-day air campaign against Yugoslavia, NATO flew 35,000 sorties using 1,000 planes and dropped 23,000 bombs and missiles. The brunt of the attack was born by some 18,000 pilots and crew in the U.S. Air Force. Not a single pilot was lost to enemy fire, but the war did take a major toll. The Price of Victory. United States Air Force and it's commanders say their men and machines are exhausted. At air ...

Can somebody coherently explain in layman's terms (I'm no computer geek)why the following is happening, and how do I correct it.I set my preferences to choose the "current window" in FreeRepublic Preferences. (I hate change) Everytime I open a topic to read, and/or reply....after I have completed the task and hit the "back" button, I end up with an "old" former "Latest 100 Topics" page that I might have seen days ago.The only solution then is to hit the "refresh" button in order to get back the current posts.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers who pulled over a speeding car had no idea a backseat passenger was carrying drugs in her purse. But they ended up looking inside it anyway, a search now condoned by the nation's highest court. That ruling is part of an annual summer ritual in which police departments across America are detailing for officers the Supreme Court's latest ``dos'' and ``don'ts'' of their work - guidelines that become part of the fabric of daily life. The Wyoming troopers had noticed a hypodermic syringe in the driver's shirt pocket, and he admitted having ...

The new international space station will cost an estimated $54 billion. How do you feel about spending this amount of tax money on the space station? o Excellent use of tax money o Good use of tax money o Fair use of tax money o Poor use of tax money o Not sure Click here to vote

WASHINGTON -- Police can easily "eavesdrop" on pagers if a bill approved by the US Senate becomes law. The bill says law enforcement officials can monitor all messages sent to targeted pagers without having to convince a judge that the information can be found only in that way. "Congress is trying to do an end run around the Constitution and gut the privacy of millions of pager owners," said David Banisar, author of The Electronic Privacy Papers. The measure is part of a sprawling juvenile crime bill, which passed the Senate overwhelmingly after the Littleton, Colorado shootings. It isn't in ...

*** Your Title Here *** Class Actions: Fine-Tune the Law, Don't Trash It After a decade of controversy, science has rendered its verdict on the dangers of breast implants: On June 21, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences declared that silicone implants don't cause serious disease. That means the $7 billion that Dow Chemical Corp. (DOW), 3M (COMS), and others shelled out in settlement ransom was apparently for nothing. Would-be tort reformers have embraced the IOM report as an indictment of plaintiffs' lawyers everywhere. Just as the implant cases were bogus, they argue, so are ...

LOS ANGELES — President Clinton says he is confident Vice President Al Gore will turn his political fortunes around but is flattered by how close the rhetoric of Republican Gov. George W. Bush is to his own, according to an interview released Thursday. Clinton, in Los Angeles to wrap-up a four-day tour to economically depressed areas of the country, mused at length about how the 2000 presidential election is shaping up. "I think there's a constant desire for change,'' Clinton told the Los Angeles Times in discussing the fact that Gore has been trailing the Republican presidential front-runner in ...

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**** Clinton: 'I Do Believe in the New Economy' President Clinton has a plan to spread the wealth On the eve of a barnstorming tour to promote his new Medicare plan and unveil an initiative to bring the New Economy boom to inner cities, President Clinton sat down with Business Week White House Correspondent Richard S. Dunham on June 29. Note: This is an extended, edited, online-only version of the Q&A that appears in the July 12 issue of Business Week. Q: Do you think the New Economy is as big a boon as its backers claim? A: I ...