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New York's Daily News May Be Forced To Close if Arbitration Award Is Upheld By MATTHEW ROSE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 3, 1999 NEW YORK -- The Daily News, one of the nation's biggest tabloid papers, had a loss of $17.9 million in 1998 during which it also received a $19 million cash infusion from part-owner Mortimer B. Zuckerman, and could be forced to close if a recent wage arbitration is upheld. The paper's deteriorating financial condition was disclosed Thursday with the unsealing of an opinion from U.S. District Court Judge Thomas P. Griesa in connection ...

Cohen recommends end to live-fire military training on Vieques December 3, 1999 -- Web posted at: 3:44 PM EST (2044 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary William Cohen today recommended ending military training on Vieques over the next five years and barring military personnel from using live weapons on the Puerto Rican island until that phaseout occurs. The recommendation, which President Clinton is expected to accept, leaves open the possibility of continued use of the island for military training if Vieques residents agree before the end of the five-year period. It also offers $40 million to redevelop the island, which ...

People are still wondering how Bill Clinton got that scratch on his chin shortly after Barbra Streisand's sleepover at the White House. Former White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers says in a new bio of the First Lady that reporters were right to be suspicious when the President appeared one morning in 1993 with what Sheehy calls a "mean claw mark along his jawline." "I'm the idiot who said he'd cut himself shaving, before I'd seen him," Myers tells author Gail Sheehy in "Hillary's Choice." "Then I saw him. It was a big scratch, and clearly not a shaving cut. ...

Hadn't seen much of, or heard much from, the folks at Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth over the past two years, since the United Nations' global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan. But then they turned up in Seattle this week for the yearly conference of the 135-nation World Trade Organization (joining more than a hundred fellow leftist groups that journeyed to the Pacific Northwest with the apparent intent to riot). As it turns out, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are no longer working the global warming issue (it just didn't take off the way they'd hoped). They're ...

Misinformation about driver's license requirements -- which the state admits might have enabled illegal immigrants to get licenses -- caused a rush on East Nashville's Hart Lane driver testing station yesterday, where examiners turned away about 60 people. The rush and the ensuing confusion occurred because information apparently passed from a state worker to a resident and broadcast on a local Spanish-language radio show yesterday was simply not correct. But the problem didn't start yesterday. Some Department of Safety workers, confused over documentation requirements, had improperly issued driver's licenses over the past few months, said department spokeswoman Dana Keeton. The ...

The firearms were unloaded, locked in the vehicle STATE COLLEGE - The State College Area school board voted 6-1 at a special meeting Thursday morning to fire teacher Karen L. Grieb because of a Sept. 15 incident in which she had three unloaded firearms stored in her locked car on school property. According to the board's decision, all references to this incident will be expunged from Grieb's personnel file two years from Thursday if she has no criminal record stemming from the incident. Grieb, 41, was a part-time physical education teacher in the State College Area High School south building. ...

It's hard to imagine most Americans getting worked up enough over a political issue these days that they would show up -- en masse -- to protest it. But that's exactly what has been happening in Seattle this week. Thousands of protestors, citing labor and environmental concerns, took to Seattle's usually calm streets to lodge their complaints against what they perceive as a globalist threat to their respective causes. If any one lesson is to be taken from this event, it is this: As I reported in a recent column, every American does not share a utopian, borderless world ...

From the Frontline  December 3, 1999 It will take some time to tally up the results of the "Battle of Seattle" but there is no doubt the globalists are running scared. Before Seattle they were smug: the op-ed columnists in the Times and Wall Street Journal talked about WTO and NAFTA foes with the patronizing tones reserved for folks trying to use hand looms long after it was established cotton could be spun with electric power. "Luddites", members of a left-right "Halloween coalition," -- so the epithets ran.  Americans understand, so the globalists claimed, that consumer choice is king; that ...

VICE-PRESIDENT Al Gore's penchant for self-promoting hyperbole has landed him in trouble again, after he told a schoolgirl he was responsible for cleaning up a toxic waterway called Love Canal. Mr Gore was forced to admit later that he was not involved in the 1978 case, when environmentalists and local politicians lobbied the government in Washington to do something about the canal, which was contaminated with chemicals from a waste site. He had told schoolchildren in New Hampshire on Tuesday: "I found a little place in upstate New York; had the first hearing [in Congress] on that issue." Mr Gore, ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes on Friday blasted rivals Texas Gov. George W. Bush and wealthy publisher Steve Forbes as nothing more than the products of rich fathers. Keyes, a former U.N. ambassador, has failed to rise out of the single digits in New Hampshire polls. But he said the fact that he is near or even in those surveys with Forbes, son of the late-billionaire Malcolm Forbes, is a sign he is a more effective candidate. "Who do you think is going to be more effective dealing with the challenges facing this country?'' he asked rhetorically. ...

The controversy over Florida's ''choose life'' license plate shows how radical the fringe element of the pro-choice movement has become. Earlier this year, state lawmakers voted to offer motorists the choice to buy a school bus-yellow tag with childlike sketches of a smiling boy and girl - and the words ''choose life.'' The tags are to cost $22 extra, and those proceeds will go to groups that help pregnant women find adoptive parents for their babies. This is not a new concept. The state offers 45 other specialty plates, supporting everything from sports teams and the space program to ...

THIS IS an ``only in San Francisco'' tale. In 1981, a San Francisco jury found Russell Coleman guilty of the 1979 beating, rape, sodomy and murder of Shirley Hill, a young mother with three jobs and an 8-year-old son. After two hours of deliberation, the jury sentenced Coleman to death. Last month, District Attorney Terence Hallinan railed against that conviction. He charged that the prosecutor in the case ``concealed blood evidence'' and had ``put a possibly innocent man on Death Row.'' He wasn't in a courtroom. He was a participant in a political debate fighting furiously to retain his ...

Friday, December 3, 1999 Airline has ticket for Y2K's big moment By LISA DEMERDaily News reporter Of all the ways to ring in the millennium, being squeezed into an airplane seat apparently doesn't make many people's list.Because of low bookings, Alaska Airlines has canceled 165 passenger flights, almost all of those scheduled between 9 p.m. Dec. 31 and 9 a.m. Jan 1.But all those idle jets present a new opportunity - if you're not worried about what the Y2K computer bug might do to aviation. For $15,000, more or less, you and 139 of your friends can celebrate New ...

SEATTLE -- Developing countries Friday threatened not to sign a trade liberalization deal under discussion here, saying rich countries had shut them out of talks and rejecting efforts to set labor standards. India said it rejected any efforts by the United States for a study group on minimum labor standards among World Trade Organization (WTO) countries and also an EU-Japan proposal for a study group outside the WTO. ``We are totally opposed to it and have no intention of yielding,'' Shipra Biswas, joint secretary of information at India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry, told Reuters. ``It is a Trojan horse ...

A fierce battle ended in tragedy today as a multi-jurisdictional force of federal and state law enforcement agents stormed a militant doomsday cult, The Branch Clausians, living in a heavily fortified compound at the North Pole. ATF agents were injured, after which the Clausians' compound exploded and burned to the ground. Cult members had been charged with child abuse, drug manufacturing, welfare law infringement, keeping secrets from the government, and stockpiling weapons. Another charge of "thinking private thoughts" was dropped, being deemed as still too difficult to prove. According to witnesses, federal agents hid in livestock trailers as they drove ...

Silenced in Seattle: Protesters Quiet as WTO Talks Near End December 3, 1999 Web posted at: 1:37 p.m. EST (1837 GMT) SEATTLE (CNN) -- With no new protests to disturb them, delegates to the World Trade Organization conference on Friday worked to reach agreement toward launching a new round of talks to reduce international trade barriers. Until the conclusion of the four-day gathering -- set for Friday evening -- activists were being kept well away from the downtown Seattle meeting site. By late morning, there were no reports of new demonstrations. On Thursday, up to 3,000 chanting demonstrators marched to ...

WASHINGTON -- Quantities of drugs seized as evidence by the Drug Enforcement Administration have been mysteriously disappearing from federal storage facilities, congressional investigators have found. According to a new report from the General Accounting Office, 28 percent of random drug samples tested at four federal facilities were found to have weight discrepancies. In some cases, the shrinkage was dramatic. At the DEA's Northeast Laboratory in New York, a sample of cocaine was found to be 50 grams light, while 300 grams were missing from a sample at the Southeast Laboratory in Miami. At a bulk storage facility in Miami, a ...

Wide powers allowing the police to arrest political and environmental activists are included in a bill published yesterday which lays down a new definition of terrorism designed to catch a broad range of domestic and foreign-based groups and individuals. Terrorism will be defined as the "use or threat, for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause, of action which involves serious violence against any person or property". It will also cover threats to endanger life or commit acts causing a "serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public," ...

The Battle In Seattle From the Frontline  December 3, 1999 It will take some time to tally up the results of the "Battle of Seattle" but there is no doubt the globalists are running scared. Before Seattle they were smug: the op-ed columnists in the Times and Wall Street Journal talked about WTO and NAFTA foes with the patronizing tones reserved for folks trying to use hand looms long after it was established cotton could be spun with electric power. "Luddites", members of a left-right "Halloween coalition," -- so the epithets ran.  Americans understand, so the globalists claimed, that consumer ...

China defies US on Israeli arms deal(Clinton does nothing.)By ABRAHAM RABINOVICH 3dec99 LI Peng, chairman of China's National People's Congress, secretly visited an Israeli aircraft factory to see a reconnaissance plane that Israel is building for China in defiance of Washington's request to halt the project, the Tel Aviv newspaper, Ha'aretz, reported on Wednesday. The aircraft contains an advanced Israeli-made radar system that reportedly can detect stealth aircraft and cruise missiles. Israel has informed Washington that no US-made components are used. A modified Russian Ilyushin-76 transport plane, it is capable of logging 60 targets simultaneously and can operate in ...