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Thursday, June 20, 1996 By Jo Mannies Post-Dispatch Political Correspondent 1996, St. Louis Post-Dispatch A volunteer for Rep. Richard A. Gephardt's campaign apparently violated federal law when he obtained the credit reports of a Republican running for the seat held by the House minority leader. The campaign Wednesday turned over Republican John Moore's credit records to the U.S. attorney's office here, the lawyer for Gephardt's campaign said. The campaign gave a copy of the report to the FBI here several weeks ago, the lawyer said. The campaign and Moore identify the volunteer as George Boettcher, 24, formerly of south St. ...

About a year ago, I read an article -- I think in the Washington Post, but I'm not sure -- that said that the fastest-growing segment of startup schools in the country was church-affiliated elementary schools formed by mostly black churches in the South. Anybody got a lead to this? Thanks.

N e w s w o r l d L i v e Thursday, December 2 | Ongoing SEATTLE - Newsworld will have live coverage if protests in Seattle grow violent again.

CARMEL--The Board of Zoning Appeals granted a request for a new cellular phone antenna to be built into the brickwork of Northview Christian Life Church. Omnipoint Telecommunications will now install the antenna into the cross on the east side of the church at the intersection of Hazel Dell Parkway and 131st Street. The site is the highest elevation in Hamilton County. The move meets the city's hopes that cellular service companies would place new antennae on existing structures rather than build new, free-standing towers. Following the BZA approval of the Northview Christian Life Church site request, Omnipoint retracted its request ...

Dolly Kyle Browning will be on Larry Elder's 4:00 PM hour on KABC Los Angeles. You should be able to hear it on real audio by going to www.kabc.com. Larry just said that Dolly is going to talk about a prominent politician using the "N" word.

FOX NEWS VIOLATES JOURNALISTIC ETHICS AND AGREEMENT WITH JUDICIAL WATCH Klayman Had Agreed To Go On O'Reilly To Discuss Libelous Harvey Berkman Hit Piece On Judicial Watch's Form 990, Which Is Posted, Along with Accountants and Legal Reports, on Judicial Watch's Website (Washington, DC) -- In recent days, using its liberal surrogates in the news media, the Clinton Administration has published articles which libel Judicial Watch and Larry Klayman. In response, Larry Klayman sued two of the reporters which the White House likes and who smear Clinton critics, Harvey Berkman of The National Law Journal and David Segal of The ...

The day Cajun was Rajun about 'Rudy and his men being a thug', I recognized how it might be exploited as a way to reach for the elusive, extremely important Victim Mantle, since Thug = Mafia = Italian = Smear against Rudy. So I got busy posting at least three or four copies of how this could be exploited, following up with emails all over Rudy's various sites.Well, today Cajun retreated, saying he does not want to smear Italians.Dammit. Next time I shut up and email Rudy quietly. Ok, Cajun, you got away with it this time, but next time ...

Did any Chicago Freepers hear the WLS morning new today with the news that Chicago Police officers will no longer be allowed to question suspects with weapons in their possession? I tried looking in the Chicago Trib., and the Sun Times online versions, but could not find a reference to it any place. IMHO this is the first step in removing all those nasty guns from the hands of the police. For the Children don't you know!

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - Actors Whoopi Goldberg and Gregory Peck joined President Clinton at a Beverly Hills dinner on Tuesday in calling for tighter gun control laws to mark the Brady Bill's sixth anniversary. A host of Hollywood stars and musicians turned out to attend the fund-raising dinner to celebrate the 1993 law that imposed background checks on gun purchasers and to donate $250 to $10,000 each to promote gun control. The law, named for former White House spokesman Jim Brady who was seriously injured in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has stopped 470,000 people ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said today that it's not involved in a concert performance planned by President Clinton's brother in communist North Korea but that it generally doesn't oppose such visits by Americans. ``As a rule, we do not oppose cultural exchanges'' with North Korea, the State Department said in a statement, adding: ``The U.S. government has no official connection with this event.'' Roger Clinton, the president's half brother, is scheduled to perform Sunday at a pop concert in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The entertainer and band leader is to join South Korean teen-age pop stars ...

Valli Sharpe-Giesler has been out in the streets of Seattle. Here's her perspective on what's happening with the demonstrators and police there...a little different from what we're hearing on CNN and other broadcasts. Donna D. In a message dated 12/1/1999 6:20:12 AM, VALLI1 writes: Meet Fiona a local resident from the Magnolia on the outskirts of Seattle. She came up to the city on business and stayed for part of the demonstration from 11 to 1 o’clock and observed these things: Fiona walked up to the West Lake Center area to watch the parade go by and was shocked to ...

12/1/99 -- 1:46 PM Cohen calls on Germany to be a European defense leader BERLIN (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen praised Germans on Wednesday for moving successfully past their militaristic history and said the country must now take its proper place as a leader in European defense. Speaking to a gathering of German army commanders in Hamburg, Cohen said the United States will expect Germany in the coming years to increase its defense spending and take a leading role in NATO. ``Perhaps now more than ever, the alliance looks to German leadership to contribute to the capabilities ...

Once, not so long ago, trade was the province of policy wonks and special interests--and the experts and lobbyists liked it that way. No longer. Now it's a hot political issue. One reason is the growth of trade; just 4 percent of GDP in the early fifties, it's more than 13 percent today. Another is that international capital flows, ranging from productive pursuits like building factories to speculative ones like betting against national currencies, have grown even more strongly. And still another is that the areas covered by trade agreements have widened from traditional concerns with tariffs and quotas to ...

It is illegal to purchase, sell, convey, possess, carry or transport gas masks within the Seattle city limits. Violators are subject to fines of up to 500 dollars and imprisonment of up to 180 days...

The irony just keeps coming. Clinton spreads love and joy to the globalists and unwashed, while the last days of the canal count down. He is going to have the blood of alot of young Americans on his hands. In 2000, it's China Canal Clinton admits Beijing to control crucial waterway through Panama By David Kupelian © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com President Clinton admitted yesterday that the Communist Chinese will, in fact, run the Panama Canal when the United States pulls all of its troops out and relinquishes control of the vital waterway Jan. 1, 2000. Speaking to reporters in the Oval ...

amazon.com is down. Aren't they in Seattle?

Once upon a time, not so long ago, Communist regimes dotted the globe and Americans knew what we thought of them. We disliked them. Because we saw ourselves as the heart and mind and muscle of liberty, we felt obliged, as a matter of principle, to resist the advance of these dictatorships—and to remember and speak for their already conquered victims. For 40-plus years following World War II, anti-communism was a central means by which America defined its place in the community of nations. Not anymore. These past 10 years, with the Berlin Wall a ruin, the United States has ...

Mark Hume National Post Peter Dejong, The Associated PressSeattle police douse seated protesters with tear gas yesterday. Thousands took to the streets to disrupt a meeting of the World Trade Organization. SEATTLE - Half naked, with a cold November rain pouring out of a dark sky and a mesmeric beat pounding out of the loud speakers, protesters at the World Trade Organization demonstration danced around a pier of burning money yesterday. At first the crowd, gathered outside the First United Methodist Church on Marion Street, just burned play money -- bills that depicted Bill Clinton in a clown mask instead ...

by Henry Clay UAPI Press Writer Monday, Nov. 1, 1999; WASHINGTON- Democratic presidential nominee Bill Bradley unveiled a series of tough anti-2nd Amendment measures today, including making it illegal for anyone who has been the victim of violence to possess a handgun. At a press conference, Bradley outlined his views on violence and offered the following proposals: Eliminating future gun manufacturing completely and permanently. Requiring existing handgun owners to pass a rigorous safety course and extensive background check before they are allowed keep there existing guns. Limiting the purchase of bow and arrows and hunting knives, by any one person ...

Democrats' L.A. Convention Plans in Need of a Nudge Politics: Personal conflicts, labor issues and other headaches beset the event, but officials insist they'll be ready. By JIM NEWTON, BETH SHUSTER, Times Staff Writers 2 December 1999 Political agendas and personal conflicts have conspired to delay the planning of next year's Democratic National Convention, a signature moment for Los Angeles that is being overseen by men so used to having their own ways that President Clinton himself has been called upon to prod them into working together. There are still months to go before the convention is scheduled to ...