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DECEMBER 01, 19:12 EST Gun Rights Group Sues Mayors By CASSANDRA BURRELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A string of lawsuits cities have filed against gun makers is nothing more than an attempt to erode Americans' right to bear arms, a gun advocacy group said Wednesday, a day after it struck back with its own suit. The Second Amendment Foundation said it suspects the mayors of 23 cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors are trying to drive gun manufacturers out of business. ``Now, they are being sued while their meritless and frivolous lawsuits are being dealt serious ...

Mexican police search home 300 times, find nothing November 29, 1999 Web posted at: 8:01 AM EST (1301 GMT) CIUDAD NEZAHUALCOYOTL, Mexico (Reuters) -- Andres Vazquez thought his recurring nightmare was over, but it has come back to haunt him. The Mexican man says his home has been searched by police more than 300 times over the past eight years. They come looking for Mexico's most wanted drug lords, kidnappers, assassins and thieves. They never find any evidence, yet they keep coming back. Vazquez, 65, who makes a living tanning goat and lamb hides in his two-story home in ...

MIDI - ON MY OWN On my own…I’ll finally leave that bastard “About Time”…I see those headlines plastered Don’t cry…for me in Argentina I’ll meet some younger stud in a discreet New York cantina What a toll…embarrassment’s weighed heavy That stained dress…had finally broke the levee She did him where we both were living She gave to him the things that I just couldn’t stomach giving I must try to time the whole thing right I will pump up loyal minions every night You will see support that I’ll receive They will cry…they’ll shout “We believe” They love me ...

Key events in the 50-year history of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor 132-member World Trade Organisation. Back in 1947, with the Second World War just ended, countries met in Geneva to try to give an early boost to trade liberalisation. Some 23 countries decided to negotiate to reduce customs tariffs. On October 30, 1947, they signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The first round of trade negotiations resulted in 45,000 tariff concessions affecting one fifth of total world trade. In November, delegates from 56 countries met in Havana to start negotiating the ...

SixString (infrequent poster and my close personal friend) was approached this past weekend whilst taking a smoke break at the TV station in Hollywood where he works by a woman who obviously was selling a political newspaper. She was virulently anti-WTO, and went into a tirade about how the American people need to rise up against this threat, and how it would be awful because big corporations would be growing on the backs of the workers, etc. "Don't you know what it would do to us?" Six, being a mild-mannered gent not without a sense of humor and always ...

Protests shocking, useful say WTO delegates STEVE MERTL SEATTLE (CP) - The visceral nature of anti-WTO protests shocked delegates to the trade body's ministerial meeting this week but some consider them useful. Thousands of protesters succeeded in disrupting the start of the four-day conference Tuesday, and a few laid waste to Seattle's shopping district in the city's largest demonstration in memory. The meeting's program got back on track Wednesday and police aggressively pushed protesters out of a downtown no-go zone. Crowds were a fraction of the 50,000 who marched and blocked the conference venue Tuesday. Police arrested 200 sit-down protesters ...

It's open season on the right to keep and bear arms as UN globocrats gear up for international gun controls. The United Nations is very troubled that the United States has retained its Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Radical new UN proposals treat free people with the means to effect their own self-defense as a vital threat to the United Nations and its quest for what it calls the "peace-building process." More troubling still is the fact that for the first time ...

Protests, Ceremonies Mark World AIDS Day LONDON (Reuters) - The world marked the last World AIDS Day of the millennium Wednesday with ceremonies, protests and calls for greater efforts to fight the disease in the next millennium.In London and South Africa public buildings were dramatically bathed in red light as World AIDS Day dawned, while in Washington hundreds of protesters charged the United States on the eve of the event with hindering the access of developing countries to AIDS drugs.In France, the French medical charity Medecins du Monde urged countries meeting at the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit to allow ...

It only takes one fish to wipe out a population EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 1 DECEMBER 1999 AT 14:00 ET US UK Contact: Claire Bowles claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk 44-0-20-7331-2751 New Scientist US Contact: New Scientist Washington office newscidc@idt.net 202-452-1178 It only takes one fish to wipe out a population A SINGLE genetically modified fish could turn Darwinian evolution upside down and wipe out local populations of the species if released into the wild, biologists warn. They add that other organisms could face the same risk from transgenic relatives. William Muir and Richard Howard of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, made the ...

I'm wondering if Seattle is just a preview of things to come folks. I just watched a lady on TV , with nothing more than business papers under her arm, and wanting to do nothing more than cross the street in Seattle, being repeatedly shoved by police, when she finally told them to get out of her face, they slammed her into a wall and arrested her. She did NOTHING but say get out of my face, and rightfully so. Folks, I was law enforcement for 20 years, this is a Department TOTALLY out of control. Granted last night a ...

VIDEOPlease, check out all of the video feeds and stills, and remember to save stills with any importance! May G-d have mercy on their souls...APBnews scanner of Seattle HERE

<> NOVEMBER 30, 18:15 EST 10 AIDS Activists Arrested in D.C. WASHINGTON (AP) &#151; About 400 AIDS activists demonstrated in front of the White House on Tuesday to protest U.S. policies they say prevent poor countries from getting drugs needed to fight the disease. Ten were arrested. The protest was the latest by members of the group ACT-UP of the Clinton administration's drug and trade policies. ACT-UP members earlier protested at the offices of U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. Lt. Leonard Chertoff of the U.S. Park Police said 10 people were arrested, charged with crossing a police line and released. ...

Starr aides subpoenaed to testify during immunity hearing 6.51 p.m. ET (003 GMT) December 1, 1999 ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — Prosecutors in Linda Tripp's state wiretap case have subpoenaed five current and former members of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's staff, hoping they may be able to clarify when Mrs. Tripp's federal immunity took effect. In subpoenas dated Nov. 30, the staff members were ordered to appear at a Dec. 13 hearing by Judge Diane O. Leasure. Mrs. Tripp's secretly tape-recorded phone calls with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, in which Ms. Lewinsky confided an affair with President Clinton, ...

Sooner Gun Shows presents the Grand National Gun and Knife Show this weekend, Dec. 4th and 5th, 1999, in Tulsa OK, at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Expo Building; Sat. 8-6pm, Sun 9-5pm. This promises to be a great event with over 2200 dealers. Along with the usual assortment of hardware available you can also meet several celebrities, including Randy Weaver of Ruby Ridge fame, and the most decorated Green Beret Commander: Lt Col. James “Bo” Gritz, who is currently conducting freedom seminars. They will certainly be in good company as the show also boasts the appearance of Jerry Furland, author of ...

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2250 GMT, 991201 – Europe's New Defense Force Western European nations, reportedly including Britain, France, Germany and Italy, have agreed to a draft document on a new European defense architecture. Originally presented at the 74th Franco-German summit on Nov. 30, the new military arm would provide Europe the capability to make its own defense decisions and conduct operations in areas where NATO has not committed troops. While German and French spokesmen at the summit were careful to state that this proposed structure would not supplant NATO authority, it will inevitably make Europe more independent from the United States. German ...

Story Filed: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 4:04 PM EST UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J., Dec 1, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Century Corp, in collaboration with The US Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has published EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND THE YEAR 2000 PROBLEM. The November 22, 1999 technical report disputes the myth that embedded systems can be ignored if they don't appear to use a date. This misconception has caused testing procedures to miss many critical time dependent functions that should have been tested. The report also concludes the vast majority of Y2K embedded failures will occur on January ...

US criticises German defence cuts German fighters flew combat missions over Kosovo and Serbia The US Defence Secretary, William Cohen, has sharply criticised cuts in German military spending, calling on the government in Berlin to take a leadership role in Nato's modernisation plans Mr Cohen also warned that the disparity between the American and European military capabilities within Nato threatened the alliance. Addressing a conference of the German armed forces in Berlin, Mr Cohen said that in relative terms, Germany was spending less on defence than Hungary, Poland or the Czech Republic. This he said was setting the new members ...

Tom Hayden, the former 1960s activist, decalred that WTO protests have proven the "power of the street". "This may be one those turning-point events when the waters of invisibility are parted and people see what is going on all around them,'' Hayden tells KNIGHT RIDDER in Thursday cycles. Hayden: "A lot of these groups have had their heads down, or they've been accepting token crumbs from the Clinton table for so long that they haven't looked around much,'' Hayden said. ``The change that occurred here is a change in psychology. We stopped the WTO. They deserved to be stopped. ...