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A recent exchange in The Washington Post had ABC's Ted Koppel defending the indefensible, a medical misstatement put forth in the November ''Frontline'' special on bioterrorism. His consultants had advised him that death from the dread bacteria anthrax occurs two to three days after exposure. That is just wrong. As is well known from the 1979 outbreak in Sverdlovsk in the former Soviet Union, the average time of death is about 12 days after inhaling the lethal aerosol, and some victims died weeks later. A small point, perhaps, but timing is everything in the spate of scary bioweapons scenarios ...

SEATTLE –– Conservative presidential candidate Pat Buchanan praised the thousands of demonstrators marching against the World Trade Organization, calling the Geneva-based organization that sets the rules of global trade an "embryonic monster." Buchanan said Tuesday that the WTO was taking away the sovereignty of the United States and the thousands of WTO demonstrators were right to take to the streets to disrupt the opening day of meetings. "If there is one message we are trying to get across, it is that we stand against global government and an undemocratic new world order," said Buchanan, who is seeking the Reform Party ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton's tin ear for New York was on display once again yesterday morning, as her attack on Mayor Giuliani's vagrancy policies competed for attention with news of the arrest of Paris Drake -- a career vagrant, and an ex-con with a rap sheet longer than a list of presidential girlfriends. Police say Paris is the fellow who smashed Nicole Barrett's skull with a granite paving-block last month -- leaving her for dead and prompting Giuliani to announce that whatever residual patience New York might have harbored for the potentially violent homeless had expired. Henceforth, the mayor said, ...

http://mimagazin.com The view from Slovenia Milosevic in the Service of the West The author is a colonel in the Slovenian Army and is recognized as one of the best military experts in Slovenia. For many years he served as the director of the Slovenian Centre for Strategic Studies where he taught strategy and tactics. For AIM he now analyzes the consequences of the latest war and explains why the politics of Yugoslav President Milosevic are in West’s interest. Author: Milan GORJANC A half a year has passed since NATO stopped bombing Serbia; forces of the leading NATO states are now ...

TORONTO - A pregnant woman in an irreversible coma is at the centre of an ethical storm as her family and her doctors square off over the fate of her 10-week-old foetus. Sophia Park, 25, lost consciousness on Nov. 17, finally succumbing to the effects of an advanced case of tuberculosis-meningitis that five different Ontario doctors failed to diagnose over a two-month period. Ms. Park, a York University education student, is recently married and pregnant with her first child. Although she was declared legally brain dead on Nov. 27, doctors in the intensive care unit at Toronto Western Hospital have ...

The tens of thousands of demonstrators marching in the streets of Seattle this week represent a formidable new protest movement likely to make itself felt at the Republican National Convention here next summer. The protesters, representing a diverse array of groups from right-wing protectionists to centrist trade unions to left-leaning environmentalists, have thrown the World Trade Organization meeting in the normally laid-back city into turmoil and forced officials to call in state troopers and the National Guard. In tear gas-filled scenes reminiscent of the historic protests of the 1960s, police have clashed repeatedly with more militant demonstrators. But the ...

WASHINGTON -- Tonight, six Republican presidential candidates are scheduled to square off in a crowded debate in Manchester, N.H. They will be treated equally because that's the "democratic" thing to do. I would argue, however, that voters and democracy itself would have been better served if the debate's sponsors had limited the number of participants to three candidates: George W. Bush, Steve Forbes and John McCain. Debates have always been an essential element of our presidential selection process. Today, however, our fast-track primary season severely limits the country's political conversation with presidential hopefuls. Take tonight's debate. Six candidates will compete ...

Charlton Heston says he won't back down from giving a reading at a Jewish center in Los Angeles despite opposition from a group that advocates gun control. Heston's appearance today at the Skirball Center is inappropriate in the light of a shooting in August at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, said a group called Women Against Gun Violence. A white supremacist is charged with wounding several people at the center and later killing a postal worker. Ann Reiss Lane, chairwoman of the group, wrote a letter to the Skirball Center saying that Heston is president of ...

Condoms fall from the sky on World AIDS Day; more children become AIDS orphans JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - AP World News : AIDS activists handed out condoms in city buses in Bangkok and dropped them from a helicopter in Pretoria, but on World AIDS Day much of the focus was on the children who have been orphaned by the pandemic. In a Salvation Army home in Johannesburg, babies with the AIDS virus blew bubbles and tooted party favors Wednesday at a World AIDS Day party _ a rare moment of pure joy for the toddlers. In some cases, the ...

International money laundering is a multibillion-dollar problem in Israel, the chief of the police investigating unit said yesterday, urging new laws be passed to combat the financial criminals. Police Maj.-Gen. Yossi Sedbon said Israel is a "promised land for money laundering," partly because it currently has no law making it illegal to handle funds from organized crime, invested in legitimate businesses as "laundering." After addressing a United Nations-sponsored seminar aimed at prodding Israel towards enacting a law to combat the practice, Sedbon told The Associated Press that money laundering here amounts to "billions of dollars, many billions." A draft law ...

(Paraphrased, cut/copy problems with browser) Hillary Clinton may be the darling of the far-left fringe now that Lola Falani has joined forces with Pat Buchanan, but she is losing ground with mainstream voters. Hillary expected, even needed a major bump in the polls from her "I'm Running (sorta of)" announcement, but it simply wasn't there. Even after her announcement, with all the media coverage it received, and her attacks on the Mayor, she is further down in critical polling areas. The New York Senate race is won by appealing to segments of the voting population. Gulliani will win most Republican ...

GLENDALE - Assemblyman Jack Scott announced at a hearing on gun violence Wednesday that he will introduce legislation requiring licensing and registration of all handguns in California. "When police can't trace a gun back to its owner, it is often impossible to convict criminals for murders, robberies and other crimes, said Scott, whose son was killed in an accidental shooting in 199 3. "Just as we license drivers and require automobiles to be registered, one day California will require licensing and registration of handguns." Scott, D-Pasadena, announced the proposal at a hearing of the Assembly Select Committee on Gun Violence ...

Florida is suspending production of "Choose Life" license plates. The state produces the plate to support adoption, but pro-choice advocates say it is a political statement against abortion, The Associated Press said. Money from the plate goes to organizations that help pregnant women put their babies up for adoption. The state has stopped production of the plates, which feature a drawing of two children and the slogan "Choose Life," because the National Organization of Women sought a legal injunction against them. "We're not doing anything at this point because of pending litigation," said John Whitney, general counsel for the Department ...

2Y2Kor not 2Y2K By John David Powell TMNS contributor November 30, 1999 2Y2K or not 2Y2K? Now, there’s a question. Whether it is wiser to suffer the outrageous possibility of cyber doom, or, through our wisdom, ignore it. Maybe folks are getting tired of the end-of-the-world scenarios. NBC’s apocalyptic movie crashed and burned in the ratings last week. Still, I predict the doomsayers will launch one last offensive in the few weeks remaining. The equity market is one front where a major campaign is underway. As the story goes, investors should sell most of their stock and put their money ...

Accuracy In Media Media Monitor Queer Standards At The Post By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid December 2, 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Washington Post is probably the nation’s most influential newspaper. It is the one paper that is read by most, if not all, members of Congress and their staffs, senior Washington officials, judges and journalists. The Post is also one of the few newspapers that has an ombudsman, an employee who fields complaints and defends or criticizes the editors and reporters who are targets of criticism. The current ombudsman, a woman named E. R. Shipp, is the best the Post ...

"It's remarkable how often the predictions of economics professor Ravi Batra have proven prescient. Years in advance he predicted the rise of fundamentalism in Iran, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the decline of communism, the stock market crash of 1987, and the September market slump of 1998. " The author of five international best-sellers, Batra is known for successfully predicting: the stock market crash of 1987 the fall 1998 U.S. stock market slump the current market turmoil in Asia and Latin America a fundamentalist revolution in Iran in 1979 the decline of communism the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

The arrest of a panhandler who attacked a young woman with a brick on a mid-Manhattan street corner would hardly qualify as an exotic entry in the city's police blotter. Random, inexplicable violence has always been part of this city's life. But with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton expected to face off for a Senate seat, the arrest has brought into focus the substantial differences between the two political rivals. It may also mean that Mrs. Clinton's opening strategy in this new phase of her campaign could backfire. In the wake of the Nov. 16 attack on ...

REFORM PARTY TRADE LEADERS JOIN PROTEST AT WTO EVENT IN SEATTLE “The United States must not surrender any part of its sovereignty in negotiating trade agreements.” In 1993, Reform Party founder Ross Perot prefaced his book, Save Your Job, Save Our Country, with this admonition. In the work, co-authored by Dr. Pat Choate, Perot detailed for America why NAFTA was the ultimate “insider” deal, would cost U.S. jobs and was not in our country's best interests. Six years later, members of the Reform Party are continuing the fight to protect our country's sovereignty and future, joining protesters in Seattle to ...

Officer's loyalty, diligence huge presence in precinct By Tom Bailey Jr. He measured about 6-4 and 250, but the huge hole created Wednesday by the death of Patrolman John Harold Robinson Jr. had nothing to do with his size. What's missing now, said family, friends and officers, is his immense character. And they weren't talking about any Looney Toons comic character so often on the T-shirts the 39-year-old officer and father of three wore at home. They described a 17-year police veteran who, despite seniority, preferred the midnight shift and whose dedication to his job was downright inspirational. Services will ...

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