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Precedent Shattering’ Administration OKs Supercomputer Sale to China The Clinton administration has approved export of an IBM supercomputer intended for China’s Meteorological Administration. Critics of the deal say Beijing could use it to improve the targeting of its nuclear warheads. (ABCNEWS.com/ Magellan Geographix) By David Ruppe ABCNEWS.com Dec. 3 — The Clinton administration may soon allow China to buy an immensely powerful IBM computer that experts say Beijing could use to improve the targeting of its nuclear warheads. Sources tell ABCNEWS.com administration officials recently approved an unprecedented proposal to allow China to import an IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer with an ...

TWO ARTICLES:Saturday, December 4 7:13 PM SGT Former Kosovo guerrillas lay foundations for US-style National GuardPRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Dec 4 (AFP)Hardline ex-Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighters say they have laid the foundations for a US-style 'National Guard' in spite of a demilitarisation accord with NATO forbidding the ex-guerrillas from forming internal security units.Some 120 of the former separatists paraded in camouflage uniforms in the northwest town of Srbica last Sunday as part of ethnic Albanian celebrations marking Flag Day, which commemorates Albanian independence in 1912.They marched before a crowd of thousands of revellers which included the former political leader of the ...

The Fox News Channel will re-broadcast Fox News Sunday tonight from 6-7:00 pm EST. Alan Keyes is the first guest. The Fox News Channel doubled CNN's debate rating, getting over a 2 rating (closer to a 3 rating, but I'll get the actual numbers tomorrow) which is highly unusual for a cable show. Each rating point represents 800,000 people. Hannity & Colmes held the rating at a 1.7 during Alan Keyes appearance.

Why is this big story being continuall swept under the rug by certain people. We keep hearing this 50 year old Hitler crap but nothing about Cocaine or alcohol abuse by another prominent candidate

All these 'budget surpluses' have massively increased our national debt - perhaps we should call for more deficits, so we can bring the debt down. So far clinton's much vaunted budget cutting and 'surpluses' have resulted in an increase in our national debt of $1.2 TRILLION during his term in office. Last year alone the debt increased by $120 billion. So far this year, only 2 months old, they have increased the debt by $56 Billion. Check out the clinton treasury department's own reports on the national debt - National Debt to the Penny Hope this link works, if it ...

http://www.triblive.com/opinion/mcnickle.html There's an outrageously error-filled, left-plying little book on sale at your friendly neighborhood Toys R Us (and I can only suppose other stores) this yuletide. It's one parents need to be careful doesn't end up on ol' Saint Nick's list. It's one for which the publisher and those retailers stocking it should be ashamed. I found my copy of ``People Who Shaped History'' at the Toys R Us in the old Village Square complex in Bethel Park. The 320-page book is billed as a ``micropedia'' of the planet's ``greatest and most notorious figures.'' It's what publisher Dempsey Parr of ...

The following article is posted for discussion purposes only. Education Goals Elusive, but Encouraging Signs Emerge By Steve Piacente; Post and Courier; Charleston, SC; December 5, 1999 Washington - They met in 1989 and decided that by 2000: All children would start school ready to learn. The high school graduation rate would hit 90 percent U.S. students would be first in the world in math and science Every adult American would be literate. Every school would be free of guns, drugs and alcohol. There were a few more national goals established at the 1989 Education Summit in Charlottesville, Va., as ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro Sunday branded U.S. police action against protesters at a trade meeting in Seattle as worse than repression by Chile's former military ruler Augusto Pinochet. The fiery 73-year-old communist leader, often accused of repression at home, suggested that had such scenes been seen in Cuba, there would likely have been a NATO-led invasion of the island on grounds of human rights abuses. And he contrasted the absence of U.S. political leaders on the streets of Seattle to calm protesters with his own personal intervention during a rare outbreak of public disorder in Cuba ...

In a debate with Haley Barbour, Carville repeatedly tried to point out that GW was out of touch and an extremist because, "...he would propose a constitutional amendment to ban abortion". Why would Carville be so incenced about this? It is incredibly difficult to pass an amendment. It requires a 2/3 vote just to get out of the house. Then it must be ratified in every state. Jimmy Carter proposed the ever doomed Equal Rights Amendment for women, and it never came close to ratification in the states. My opinion is that Carville is afraid of a amendment to ban ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro Sunday branded U.S. police action against protesters at a trade meeting in Seattle as worse than repression by Chile's former military ruler Augusto Pinochet. The fiery 73-year-old communist leader, often accused of repression at home, suggested that had such scenes been seen in Cuba, there would likely have been a NATO-led invasion of the island on grounds of human rights abuses. And he contrasted the absence of U.S. political leaders on the streets of Seattle to calm protesters with his own personal intervention during a rare outbreak of public disorder in Cuba ...

May Be Falling Behind the Techno-Curve in Surveillance Techniques NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Security Agency is now drafting "memoranda of understanding" to clarify ways in which it can help the FBI track terrorists and criminals in the United States, territory in which it is generally off-limits, Newsweek has learned. The FBI, never known for its technical know-how, welcomes the help from the high-tech NSA, but some senators are uneasy about letting the NSA eavesdrop more in the United States, report Washington Correspondent Gregory Vistica and Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas in the current issue of ...

Sen. John McCain: Not acceptable to the dowager of The Washington Post. (Joe Marquette/AP file photo) This is the time of year that Washington is a truly delightful city to live in, to visit or to write about. The president and his secretary of state are traveling the world; the first lady also is away having finally made up her mind to run for the U.S. Senate seat in New York; and Congress is out of session. Still, even in a comparative paradise, true bliss is unobtainable while Katharine Graham, The Washington Post's dowager empress, is diverting herself by ...

Street Fight in Seattle Seattle After the Battle in Seattle one thing is certain: The next WTO confab will be held somewhere like Singapore or Jakarta. The corporate-dominated trade regimen enforced by the WTO is generating so much opposition that it can meet only under the sort of armed protection provided by a militarized state. Indeed, one silver lining of corporate-managed globalization is that it has harmonized US domestic protest against it to unprecedented levels of European-style militancy. Bill Clinton planned his appearance before the WTO as a showcase for successful free-trade policies, but he wound up having to give ...

Israelis Debate Immigration Laws By MARK LAVIE Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - The bedrock of the Jewish state - a law that grants Israeli citizenship to anyone with a Jewish grandparent - is coming under the harshest attack in years, amid allegations it has enabled hundreds of thousands of non-Jews to immigrate. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, with the support of some government officials, proposed this week that the Law of Return be tightened. ``Even sacred cows are slaughtered sometimes,'' Rahamim Malul, a lawmaker from the religious Shas party, asserted Monday. Prime Minister Ehud Barak staunchly opposes restricting immigration, angrily insisting at ...

Sunday December 5, 1:38 PM Ken Starr: 'FBI Believed Juanita' Former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr says that FBI agents who interviewed Juanita Broaddrick believed she was telling the truth when she claimed President Clinton raped her 21 years ago. "The investigators found her entirely credible," Starr told a gathering of reporters on Friday. Only Cox News Service's Julia Malone reported the former independent counsel's comments on the rape charge, breaking ranks with her Washington press corps colleagues who ignored the development. Starr did not personally meet with the Clinton accuser. Last January 20th the 55 year-old Arkansas nursing home operator ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Clinton's half-brother and two dozen South Korean pop stars performed a concert Sunday in communist North Korea, singing together hand-in-hand and inviting top performers from the North to the stage, television reported. Roger Clinton, a singer and bandleader, arrived in the North on Thursday with 37 South Korean pop stars and organizers to perform in a 2,000-seat concert hall in Pyongyang. The U.S. State Department said there was no official U.S. government connection to Clinton's visit. Nevertheless, Clinton has managed to meet high-ranking officials in Pyongyang and visit the birthplace of late President ...

THE Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has salted away billions of pounds for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in secret foreign bank accounts and investments, including property in London. The disclosure about the hidden wealth of his PLO comes amid deepening economic hardship in his Gaza and West Bank fiefdoms. It will also hamper his efforts to woo a huge influx of European aid for his fledgling Palestinian regime. The timing of the disclosures could not have been more embarrassing as Mr Arafat, seated before a stage built to resemble a giant Christmas crib, yesterday opened Millennium celebrations in Bethlehem. He hopes ...

. . . Arlington family of A&M cadet says he did not drink alcohol! When drinking and Jerry Don Self were mentioned in the same sentence, Dr Pepper was typically the beverage in question. But tests indicate Self, a 1997 graduate of Arlington's Lamar High School, was intoxicated when he was killed in the bonfire stack collapse at Texas A&M University on Nov. 18. The news shocked his father, Michael Self of Arlington. "I still find it hard to believe because I know how Jerry was, and he did not drink," Michael Self said. "Everybody that knew Jerry knew he ...

US leery of Europe's new defense plans By Jeffrey Ulbrich, Associated Press, 12/05/99 RUSSELS - For years, the United States pressed its European allies to shoulder more of the burden of their own defense. Now, Europe is forging ahead with a plan to do just that, and Washington is suddenly worried that the NATO alliance could split. Some fear the European Security and Defense Identity, a NATO program to be formalized at this week's European Union summit in Helsinki, is the first crack in the solidarity that has kept the peace in Europe for 50 years. Tidal changes are ...

China to Shut 200 Papers for Straying from Official Line      HONG KONG, Dec 5 (AFP) - Chinese authorities have decided to close some 200 local newspapers to reassert      control over a press they believe has strayed too far from the official line, a Hong Kong-based human rights      group said Sunday.      According to the Information Centre of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China, the first targets will      be popular tabloids that are overshadowing large papers run by the Chinese Communist Party.      "These newspapers emphasize court cases, crime, accidents and corruption: people are buying ...