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Iran-Contra file affair uncovered during murder conspiracy investigation 9.59 p.m. ET (311 GMT) December 1, 1999 By Dina Kraft, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Police said Wednesday they unexpectedly found a top secret document linked to the Iran-Contra affair while investigating the case of a prominent newspaper publisher suspected in an alleged murder conspiracy. Chief of the police investigating unit, Maj. Gen. Yossi Sedbon, said the document was found Wednesday during a search of the office of private detective Oded Ben-Dov. Sedbon would not reveal the document's contents. The private detective is a suspect in the case of Ofer ...

"Eggheads unite: you have nothing to lose but your yolks." - Adlai Stevenson At the first sight of him, my shoulders sagged from relief, and a broad, joyful smile came across my face. He was all the evidence I ever needed. There was a God after all! I first saw him this past Sunday, on the sixth floor of Madison Square Garden, in the building's grim concrete-walled security office. At the time I was flanked by four security guards in maroon sportcoats, who had escorted me arm in arm from my seat in the stadium, where I had been ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton, trying to reignite her U.S. Senate hopes, last night promised to drive GOP opponent Rudolph Giuliani ``crazy'' by waging a hard-fought campaign focusing on health care and education. The first lady, at a Boston fund-raiser which netted her campaign $450,000, fired up her Massachusetts supporters and sent a strong signal she will wage an aggressive race against the New York City mayor. ``This will be a very tough election, a hard-fought campaign, but I'm committed to making it,'' Clinton told hundreds of backers at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. ``I could not have a starker contrast to ...

Barnes' editorial said KOMO might cover such stories. It just wouldn't give free publicity to disruptive elements. "So if you see us doing a story on a disruption but we tell you we won't name the group or the cause," Barnes said in the editorial, "you'll know why." Thus, to use the Rosa Parks example again, KOMO apparently would report it this way: "Police today arrested an African American woman who refused to surrender her seat on a municipal bus when a white passenger demanded it. We're not identifying the woman or the organization to which she belongs because her ...

Dodie Shallman had something to say about Cambridge's scandalous debt, beastly taxes, and the clowns who got the town into this mess. With the dirt-dishing Observer, the doyenne turned her crusade into news. http://www.citypages.com/databank/20/991/article8258.asp?page=0

Thursday December 2 2:04 AM ET Venezuelan Oil Follows the Sun for Y2K Tips Venezuelan Oil Follows the Sun for Y2K Tips By Tom AshbyCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) plans to take advantage of a 17-hour time lag after the millennium first dawns in New Zealand to fine-tune its own Y2K contingency plans.``We play an active role in the so-called follow-the-sun initiative through which we will have information online as the year begins in the first important land mass which is New Zealand,'' Ivan Crespo, PDVSA's executive in charge of its Y2K program, ...

Greetings from New Hampshire! For those of you who are Fox News Channel impaired, here are a couple of links to view tonight's debate: WMUR-TV, Manchester, New Hampshire http://www.wmur.com/news/main/videonews.htm Fox News Channel (They've assured me they will have a working link): www.FoxNews.com

Boy, 9, charged with hitting girl at school By WILL GREENLEE, Stuart News Web-posted: 3:32 p.m. Dec. 1, 1999 PORT ST. LUCIE - Port St. Lucie police arrested a 9-year-old elementary school student after he allegedly punched a girl on the abdomen and back and pushed her, a police report states. The 90-pound child was charged with battery in connection with the 12:30 p.m. Monday incident. After the incident, the boy allegedly said to the 8-year-old girl, "Come on, you want some more of me? I don't think so 'cause you're too scared of me." The third-grader's arrest comes less ...

Protests in Seattle are no longer focused on the WTO. They are focused on the police and civil authority's response to the protests. Day 1 protests were aimed at the WTO. Day 2 protests were aimed at the Police and civil authorities emergency orders. Last night in the trendy Capitol Hill neighborhood, violence erupted for a second night. Although the neighborhood was well-outside the "No-Protest Zone" designated by the State of Emergency, Police were determined to disburse any gathering of "civil disobedience". Residents of that neighborhood were upset that the police herded Monday night's protesters into the Capitol Hill neighborhood, ...

They call it the perfect protest: a city snarled. Traffic tied up. Banners hang from buildings. Protesters have chained themselves to trees. Enter the The Ruckus Society, which teaches these things, which espouses these methods, which really wants to disrupt life in Seattle when the World Trade Organization meets here later this year. Beginning today, the Ruckus Society will be at the Pragtri Farm just outside of Arlington to teach 160 activists from around the world how to do just that. The society, based in Berkeley, Calif, promotes its weeklong workshop as a camp. Instead it is a training ...

S>EATTLE -- It took only a few minutes for the people in the monarch butterfly costumes and union jackets to realize that what was planned as the biggest American demonstration yet against global trade here had turned into a burst of window-breaking and looting late Tuesday afternoon. A surge of violence that ended in a civil emergency began when a knot of people dressed in black broke away from the main demonstration and started overturning trash containers, stoking fires and smashing windows of stores and restaurants. It died out with the image of a grinning young man in a ...

PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO Missionaries have wings clipped for Y2K LDS Church orders employees, others grounded -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By David M. Bresnahan © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Mormons are being told to stay on the ground during the change from 1999 to 2000 "as a precaution," according to a church spokesman. "This is a precautionary measure only and may be subject to change in some parts of the world as developments unfold," was the explanation given in an official statement issued by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. No LDS leaders, employees or missionaries will be in the air between ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (JTA) — While Jewish groups got few of the key things they were lobbying for during the first session of the 106th Congress, activists say much of the groundwork has been laid for next year. "The legislative highway is littered with more failed legislation than successes," said Matthew Dorf, director of governmental and public affairs at the American Jewish Congress. Some of the issues pushed by activists this session deal with hate crimes,religious liberty and gun control. Jewish groups did win a major battle on one of their top priorities: securing $1.8 billion in aid to fund ...

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High and dry in Y2K? By Stacie OultonDenver Post Staff Writer Dec. 2 - LAKEWOOD - The infamous Y2K bug could prompt an uphill battle, literally, for some metro area residents. Homeowners perched on places such as Green Mountain could end up without water if the power goes out when the clock strikes midnight, Jan. 1. "If Public Service is down for more than 48 hours, we're basically out of water,'' said Judy Dahl, general manager for Green Mountain Water and Sanitation District, which serves about 10,000 homes in Lakewood. The chance of a long-term power outage is nearly nonexistent, ...

Something curious is happening in Europe. In a spate of recent elections, national-populist parties have made unprecedented advances. In Austria, Jorg Haider's Freedom Party has bitten deeply into the constituencies of the two traditional governing parties and is now the second-most-powerful political force in the country. In Switzerland, Christoph Blocher and his supporters have pried open the long-standing, cozy division of votes among the old ruling coalition and are demanding a share of governmental power commensurate with their swelling support. The Flemish far right in Belgium, the Vlaams Blok, now gets the greatest number of votes in Antwerp, the ...

IT'S TIME FOR THE REPUBLICANS TO ADVOCATE A TAX INCREASE By: William B. Kaliher Democrats are going to continue to push for higher taxes to segregate Americans, cause envy among citizens and steal from the most productive in society. Because the Republican Congress is unable to stop the Democrats' appeal to greed and selfishness, they should continue advocating a platform and basic ideology of minimal taxes. But, since the game is going to be played that we must tax, the Republican party needs to propose of taxes that would: 1) make the Democrats realize how vicious their taxes are, ...

More Police Violence on Capitol Hill by conform 4:51am Thu Dec 2 '99 Police invaded Capitol Hill again tonight, violently attacking people in front of their homes. I just returned from Capitol Hill, a dense residential area where, for the second night in a row, police used tear gas and rubber bullets (I got souveniers!) in an attempt to disperse a crowd that was peaceful and frustrated. I estimate that at it's peak there were at least 3,000 protesters, mostly neighborhood residents who were angry that they were being treated like criminals. The police hospitalized a number of protesters, ...

China's WTO deal with the US is a crowning foreign-policy victory for Bill Clinton and a historic event that paves the way for China to firmly integrate itself into the rule-based global system. China's WTO membership is positive in the long run, but it is profoundly destabilizing in the short run and will seriously aggravate the already worrisome unemployment situation, anger entrenched vested interests, and renew potentially explosive policy debates within the leadership. The likelihood of sociopolitical instability - great and small - is increasing. Until recently, China was a success story among the ''transitioning'' economies. By employing a gradualist ...

The website FBIcover-up.com with documented proof of an FBI and Independent Counsel cover-up of the murder of Vincent Foster, now has new photographs including the crime scene at Fort Marcy Park. This is the hard to find that the American press will not tell the public. Hugh Turley