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Aside from at least three books by President Clinton’s former lovers, none of the many volumes on the Clinton scandals has been written by women, and that fact alone makes Gail Sheehy’s new book, Hillary’s Choice (Random House, 416 pages, $24), welcome. The writer spent quality time with Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1992, on assignment for Vanity Fair, and though Hillary evidently chose not to lie back down on Ms. Sheehy’s couch for this book, Ms. Sheehy has in the last year interviewed many F.O.H.’s. Not that she interviewed any of Hillary’s enemies. The author of Passages is bound and ...

On this forum, coffeemate and Please release me have been challenged to answer the following. So far they have refused. I suspect that both are Clinton buttboys who are here simply to cause trouble. Please release me challenged me about presumption of innocence. Certainly I believe in the Constitution and the presumption of innocence. We are not talking here of convicting Clinton without evidence. We are talking about sources and information and documents and common sense. We are talking about forming an opinion based on extensive research. In my case, I have seen many, many hard documents and interviewed many ...

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian Serb leaders are rolling back on terms of a U.S.-brokered accord that American officials hailed as a major step toward fulfilling the goal of a united, multiethnic country. Last month, U.S. officials said the three members of Bosnia's collective, multiethnic presidency agreed to a declaration proposed by Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to end ethnic strife and work more closely together. The declaration, unveiled in New York, is aimed at getting Muslims, Serbs and Croats working together — from the president's office down to a new border patrol. On Thursday, ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: After Clinton's Push, Questions About Motive By DAVID E. SANGER SEATTLE -- The rebellion that is getting all the attention here is the one that is happening on the streets, as protest groups who argue vociferously with each other about what's wrong with the global economy march together to insist that the system must change. But an equally fascinating struggle is happening six floors up, in the convention center where President Clinton made a last appeal today to the representatives of the 135 nations gathered here. It is a struggle over how much influence the United States should ...

This has been a good week for Pat Buchanan. Even Bill Clinton is speaking his language, with a good ol' boy's accent. A president, even this president, couldn't look at the ragtag army in the streets of Seattle, the unionists and protectionists, the Dyke Action and the Raging Grannies, the anarchists and the greenies, and not want someone, a cop or a Guardsman, to (as Jimmy Carter might phrase it) "whup their arse." But Bill Clinton, organizer of riots against the Vietnam War he dodged, couldn't help himself. So he lined up with the Dykes and Grannies, the aging ...

December 3, 1999 STREET RAGE: Dark Parallels With Anarchy Concocted in Oregon By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK and JOSEPH KAHN SEATTLE -- They call themselves anarchists, and they go by first names only: Spider, Possum, Nimo, Hawaii, Burdock, Rob. Some come from Eugene, Ore., where the anarchists have had regular clashes with the police, most seriously after a march last June turned into a riot, with smashed windows and 19 people arrested. And early this week, just before the World Trade Organization meeting was getting under way here, the teenagers and young 20-somethings came to Seattle. They took over a privately ...

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Individualistic interpretations of the English language haven't fallen out of vogue at the White House, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is doing her part to keep the trend alive. Revealing a flair for Clintonspeak, Mrs. Albright said last week that Congress held United Nations funding "hostage to an extremist agenda on international family planning," by linking it to a bill that restricts U.S. aid to organizations that perform or promote abortions in foreign countries. The legislation was passed by Congress two weeks ago. A poll on a closely related issue, however, suggests that about half of Americans don't support ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THURSDAY, DECEMBER 02, 1999 23:08:44 ET XXXXX BUSH OFFICIAL FURIOUS AT NETWORK POLL THAT NAMED KEYES BIG WINNER OF DEBATE! "This is bullshit!" roared a furious George Bush campaign official late Thursday night in Texas. "What is this poll? Why do they keep showing it on TV?!" Controversy erupted just hours after a New Hampshire debate between Republican presidential candidates when a network repeatedly aired results of a poll that showed Alan Keyes the big winner of the night -- with nearly a 2 to 1 margin over the GOP frontrunner, Texas Governor Bush! The ...

24-hour curfew is imposed in Seattle By Andrew Gumbel and Andrew Marshall in Seattle 3 December 1999 With street battles between protesters and riot police still going on, the mayor of Seattle imposed a 24-hour curfew on the city centre yesterday. Paul Schell said that only people on official business would be allowed into a 46-block area around the centre where the World Trade Organisation is meeting. The curfew will last until the official end of the WTO meting tomorrow. "Our responses will be swift," Mr Schell said. "Anybody who engages in improper behaviour will be dealt with." More than ...

And now, what was that all about in Seattle. The scenery on the streets did not depict democracy at work! What U.S. has been showing the rest of the world is a VERY WRONG example on how DEMOCRACY handles democratically given rights to the masses to express themselves when their lives are being mishandled by the sheer power of their leaders. Pictures from Seattle are eyes opener to the rest of the world, those unforgettable pictures of police uncontrollably gassing not only the demonstrators, but bystanders alike, spraying them with pepper spray, and shooting at them with rubber bullets, are ...

Maran holds sway, India sits pretty at WTO CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA SEATTLE, DECEMBER 2: As a writer of 30 Tamil film scripts and a couple of novels, Murasoli Maran sure knows how to grab attention. At the WTO meeting in Seattle, India's Commerce Minister is doing it in a style that isn't often an Indian trademark: blunt and engaging. This is a man who is not inhibited by the limitations of language or the thickness of accent. ``Yevvery'' time he starts to speak, Maran is direct and compelling. Not for him the finessed position or the nuanced statement. Or the irksome ...

Fruitful conclusion to [WTO] summit unlikely Agriculture remains a sticky issue By Gary Seidman MSNBC SEATTLE, Dec. 2 — “Bananas, bananas, bananas!” That, says Dominica’s delegate to the World Trade Organization, “is why I’m here.” Agriculture is turning out to be among the hottest issues at this trade summit, as was expected. But it also looks as if the differences between the WTO’s most powerful players — the European Union and the United States — on that issue and others are too extreme to be easily patched up. And that spells trouble. WITH JUST ONE DAY LEFT to this get-together ...

Ozone layer over Europe dwindling -space agency Updated 11:30 AM ET December 2, 1999 PARIS (Reuters) - The ozone layer over Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia has dwindled to worrying levels nearly as low as those found in the Antarctic, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday. Measurements taken in the Netherlands showed local ozone levels were some two-thirds below the norm for this time of year, confirming the abnormally low levels detected over northwest Europe this week, ESA said in a statement. The ozone layer, high up in the atmosphere, shields Earth from much of the sun's harmful ...

Other cities studying lessons of WTO: Police observers using Seattle as living laboratory By Pete Williams NBC NEWS WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 — As Seattle police clashed with protesters this week during the World Trade Organization meetings, officials in many of the nation’s police departments wondered, “What if the same thing happened here?” But at least two cities went beyond idle speculation, sending some of their own police officers to walk the streets, attend planning meetings and quietly observe what worked and what didn’t. ONE OF THOSE cities — Los Angeles — is preparing to host next year’s Democratic National Convention ...

Seattle protests active, but peaceful By Kari Huus MSNBC SEATTLE, Dec. 2 — Thousands of protesters surrounded the King County Jail on Thursday afternoon as the protest marches against the World Trade Organization became a sit-in to protest the arrests of fellow activists. Demonstrators demanded the release of the “Seattle 500” — those arrested over the last two days — while city officials met with activist leaders. BY EARLY EVENING, the jail was under lockdown, a group of protesters was staging a sit-in at the jail’s entrance and many other protesters who’d dispersed were regrouping in the Capitol Hill neighborhood ...

I really didn't want to start a new thread on this but I haven't had a vanity for a while so I thought I'd go ahead. Is anyone else having problems with the KIRO internet feed tonight? (12:45 AM EST 12/03/99) Last night it worked fine. KVI is working and so is the scanner feed from APBNews, but KIRO just won't start for me and I'm on a T1 line. Adjusting my Tin Foil Hat, let me say that if I were of the conspiracy bent, I'd think the net feed may have been pulled, and I may have had ...

President Clinton's attempt to bridge a divide in the Democratic Party by introducing labor and environmental issues into the world trade talks has backfired and is serving only to deepen dissent and political unrest in Seattle, trade experts said Thursday.     To the surprise of many involved in the Seattle talks, Mr. Clinton aired last-minute proposals to include labor and environmental standards backed by sanctions in the round of trade talks negotiators hope to launch this week.     He then gave his support to peaceful street protesters who have been blaming trade for lowering labor and environmental standards around the world. Thursday marked the ...

Nothing new to report. Can't get KIRO on the web. Can't get news on the box. So I guess I'm cut off. I'm disaffected as they say. No matter.The debate was handed to W. What a suprise. Alan Keyes was an also ran. How typical. So what am I left to do? Go to bed. I will. Wake up. we will not be deceived. We have had enough. Wanna come in to our homes and make us sheep? We'll just move on. Anarchists in Seattle, gimme a break. They were bought and paid for. You believe that. The truth will ...

Side of Rolaids?     Be prepared to lose your lunch while driving around Washington.     If nothing else, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' first-ever billboard ads targeting McDonald's will leave a bad taste in the mouths of Washingtonians.     Graphic 11- by 5-foot ads --picturing a bloody cow's head beside the caption, "Do you want fries with that?" -- was rejected by outdoor advertisers in several cities, but not Washington.     "The billboards are so graphic, in fact, that they've been turned down by a lot of magazines and most outdoor advertising companies in other cities in the U.S. But Washington has accepted them. I guess ...