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December 5, 1999 U.N.'s Outgoing Arms Monitors to Bequeath Trove of Iraq Data By BARBARA CROSSETTE UNITED NATIONS -- With a group of mostly Western nations poised to force a vote this week in the Security Council on a new arms inspection system for Iraq, the existing monitoring team will pass into history -- but not without leaving a considerable legacy to its successor. In the year since the inspection team was evacuated from Baghdad before four days of U.S. and British bombing of Iraq, it has been downsized and sidelined, but not idle, the group's acting chairman, Charles Duelfer, ...

December 5, 1999 Monitors' Reports Provide Chronicle of Kosovo Terror By STEVEN ERLANGER PRAGUE -- Two extraordinarily detailed reports on human rights abuses in Kosovo, drawn from official Western sources, present a depressing picture of an ugly war, full of individual and collective cruelty and crime by the Serbs, followed by an ugly peace displaying many of the same depredations, if on a smaller scale, by the province's Albanians. The reports, obtained by The New York Times from the compilers, are prepared by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe from its own interviews. They do not fundamentally alter ...

Japan Economic Newswire December 4, 1999, Saturday LENGTH: 270 words HEADLINE: U.S. to give China permanent MFN status DATELINE: SEATTLE, Dec. 3 Kyodo BODY: The U.S. administration is preparing to send to Congress in May a bill to give China permanent most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status, diplomatic sources said Friday. The move signals that the United States is counting on China to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) next spring. The U.S. administration plans to set up a special team after China's entry into the WTO before hammering out the bill, the sources said. There had been speculation that the U.S. ...

Alan Keyes the Clear Winner of the Debate Last Night, Poll Shows If I were going to do a poll about who won last night's debate among the Republican Candidates, there would be only one question on it: When you decided you wanted a snack, during which candidate's comment did you run to the refrigerator? George W. Bush probably would have the most votes. The best that was said about George Bush's performance, by media commentators who are pushing his candidacy, was that "he didn't make mistakes" in his first debate with the other Republican Candidates. Based on the ...

Does anyone know what happened to the vote.com poll concerning Thursday's debate? I got home from work tonight to check on the latest results, and can't find it anywhere at vote.com. Did Dr. Keyes stunning lead cause them to panic and take it down? Was the poll declared invalid (all voluntary net polls are not scientifically valid, so why would this matter for this poll?) Thanks, G.K.C. God save the Republic! Let's help him by electing Alan Keyes in 2000!

I have just learned through contact with others, that BHowdy has been banned. Why was he banned? What did he post that lead to his removal. As far as I can see, his last post was this one:To: kristinnI am not Thomas Chappel Aldridge, or any of his emanations. It is a sad day when one cannot express a question about Free Republic without being called a liberal, a racist, a stalker, or explained away as Eschoir. But this seems to have been the case here for some time. You, as much as anyone of FR, have helped to contribute ...

THE MAI SHELL GAME: The World Trade Organization (WTO) Introduction: What is the WTO? The World Trade Organization was established in 1995 following the so-called Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations. The WTO transformed the GATT, which focused primarily on tariff and quota cuts, into a new global commerce agency with the same legal status as the United Nations. The WTO, unlike GATT, is empowered to enforce global commerce rules with the imposition of economic sanction. The WTO's rules are also much broader, covering food and environmental standards, regulation of services such as insurance and ...

biological species, yet un-caged, still wild:potus rapus

by Jim Desyllas Note: The author is a student in Portland Oregon. This report was called- in from a pay phone outside Seattle. Wed., 7:30 pm Pacific time. I just spent 4 days in Seattle. The "information" people are getting from the mass media is false. This was not, as Pres. Clinton claims, a peaceful protest marred by the actions of violent protesters. This was a massive, strong but peaceful demonstration which was attacked repeatedly by the police with the express purpose of provoking a violent response to provide photo opportunities for the Western media. I know because I ...

Republican Presidential Candidate Alan Keyes will appear on Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow and Brit Hume tomorrow, Sunday, December 5, 1999. Check your local listings for times in your area on the Fox Network.

Sunday, December 5, 1999 ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE On C-SPAN at 6:30pm ET New Hampshire Republican Presidential Debate Gov. George Bush (TX), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen.Orrin Hatch(R-UT),Steve Forbes,Gary Bauer,ALAN KEYES http://www.c-span.org/guide/executive/rwh

One of the unanswered questions about the government siege at Waco is the mystery of the missing pyrotechnic tear gas projectile. When investigators for special counsel John C. Danforth and Congress recently combed through the 12 tons of evidence from the scene of the assault, their most interesting findings concerned things that were not there, according to informed sources. The most important item missing was the 44 mm pyrotechnic tear gas projectile that reignited the Waco investigation last summer. The projectile may be relevant to one of the four major questions that Danforth is trying to answer: whether the government ...

LA Times Home | Discussions | Print Edition | Archives | Site Map | Home Delivery | Advertise | Help   News Politics Entertainment music, movies, art, TV, restaurants Business Travel Classifieds jobs, homes, cars, rentals SportsCommentary Shopping -->http://www.latimes.com/print/asection/19991204/t000110495.html Back to story   Labor Unions Revive Powerful Past as WTO March Looks to New Future By KIM MURPHY, NANCY CLEELAND, Times Staff Writers      SEATTLE--For Mike Miller and Sylver Pondolfino, the real work started months ago, long before the World Trade Organization talks opened this week. It started on the warehouse floor, on coffee breaks, at lunch. Did their fellow ...

Hannity made the point on the radio: why does Buchnanan says the republicans are too different from him, and he thus cannot be with them, but then he allies himself with a full tilt Marxist like Fulani and finds it OK? If it's a Bush-Buchanan-Gore or Bradley race, I do not know who I will vote for. To me Bush and Buchanan seem to be two liars, I have not found out which liar lied most or which one would be better for the safety of the nation. I tend toward Buchanan because he has helped make a courrageous stand ...

Saturday Night Live's Fake news named Alan Keyes as the winner of the Republican debate this week. They predicted he would get the vote of all Black Republicans, provided he remembered to vote.

Action America Uncommon Insight Into Common Issues This Page is a Public Service of GurusInc.com.   BIG BROTHER is flexing his muscles again. A bill sponsored by the liberals in the Clinton Justice Department is now pending in the U. S. Senate (bill number S. 1701, the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 1999), which will drive massive amounts of foreign TAXABLE investment out of the USA. This bill, should it become law, would give the U. S. government the right to seize "ex parte" the PRIVATE PROPERTY (money, real estate, stocks, etc.) of foreign nationals who have invested ...

December 5, 1999 Saying No to W.T.O. By MICHAEL KAZIN The protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle last week may seem like a postmodern update of the 1960's. "Whose streets? Our streets" was the chant as young demonstrators dared the flak-jacketed police to drag them away. But the antic style of the loose coalition of environmentalists, unionists and others obscures an earlier and more instructive historical parallel: the anticorporate insurgency of the 1890's. A century ago, there was mass outrage against big business in the United States. Best-selling books and popular magazines blasted the concentration of wealth and ...

WASHINGTON -- It's a thankless job, but somebody's got to do it, most of all in the holiday season. Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced her intention to essentially resign as first lady to devote her attention to running for the Senate from New York. But the White House demands a hostess for the holidays, so Mrs. Clinton will split her time between the travails of campaigning in New York and the rigors of White House entertaining. Mrs. Clinton will skip one traditional seasonal event, the lighting of the national Christmas tree on the Ellipse next week. President Clinton will pull ...

WASHINGTON -- The presidential candidates are setting out increasingly specific economic policy positions, highlighting differences within and between the parties over how to take advantage of and extend the nation's prosperity. From sweeping issues like taxes, trade and Social Security to narrower topics like the Microsoft antitrust case, the candidates are starting to debate ways of building on the economy's strengths while addressing the problems of an aging population and the needs of people who have not benefited from the long expansion. In some important areas, there is broad agreement across party lines. Although the large and sometimes violent protests ...

Seattle Sighs In Relief (CBS) At the county jail in Seattle, a dwindling band of protesters kept one last sit in going Saturday, CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone reports, demanding freedom for demonstrators still in custody. There was a sense of victory in the crowd -- the global trade talks that brought them to the city ended without agreement late Friday. Downtown, there was simply relief it was all over. Michael Graham gave roses from his flower stand to early morning shoppers. "We want to have Christmas back, Christmas was stolen from us," he explains. Businesses opened up again after ...