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A number of South African judges have petitioned the United Nations in an attempt to stop government from introducing legislation setting up a so-called "punitive tribunal" by means of which judges could be tried for "misbehaviour". Die Beeld reports on Saturday that concerned judges have sent a draft law to the UN's special representative on the independence of the judiciary, Param Cumaraswamy. The newspaper, which has a copy of the proposed bill, said it is being kept under wraps and is not freely available. In terms of its proposals, disciplinary hearings will be held behind closed doors, unless the presiding ...

Shooting champion defends guns, sport By Carla CrowderDenver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer Guns have sent Shari LeGate to the Pan American Games and World Cup Championships. They have landed her a new career, even led her to a husband. She looks at a shotgun like Brandi Chastain looks at a soccer ball, or Bob Vila a hammer. Sporting equipment. Tools. But as director of the Women's Shooting Sports Foundation, LeGate, 44, has been thrust onto an uncomfortable podium. The foundation is based in Colorado Springs, less than 60 miles down the highway from the country's most notorious case of ...

Brace yourself Brace yourself. A month from now the newspapers and nightly news will no doubt be brimming with stories bemoaning the Decade of Downsizing. Date :12/03/1999 Brace yourself. A month from now the newspapers and nightly news will no doubt be brimming with stories bemoaning the Decade of Downsizing. This year is shaping up to lead the 1990s in corporate layoffs. Of course, if past reports are any guide, the new stories will brush over the fact that the decade?s more than 5 million layoffs were merely announcements. Many workers never got pink slips. And many corporations who ...

COLLATERAL DAMAGE IN SEATTLE by Portland student/reporter Jim Desyllas Called-in from a pay phone outside Seattle. Wed., 7:30 pm Pacific time. (Posted at www.emperors-clothes.com 12-2-99. Feel free to distribute in full including this note.) 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 ...

Police: Man Kills Five Children, Self 8.33 a.m. ET (1333 GMT) December 5, 1999    A Sacramento, Calif., father of seven murdered five of his children, ages 2 to 8, before shooting himself in the head in what one investigator called "a gruesome, gruesome scene" Saturday afternoon, police said. Rich Pedroncelli/AP Sacramento coroner's officials remove the body of one of six peopled killed in a murder-suicide The father, Kao Xiong, in his early 30s, according to television station KTXL, had been arguing with his wife. She left the apartment and Xiong made several phone calls to relatives, police said. ...

Shooting champion defends guns, sport By Carla Crowder Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer Guns have sent Shari LeGate to the Pan American Games and World Cup Championships. They have landed her a new career, even led her to a husband. She looks at a shotgun like Brandi Chastain looks at a soccer ball, or Bob Vila a hammer. Sporting equipment. Tools. But as director of the Women's Shooting Sports Foundation, LeGate, 44, has been thrust onto an uncomfortable podium. The foundation is based in Colorado Springs, less than 60 miles down the highway from the country's most notorious ...

Senator John Warner was first elected to the Senate in, I think, 1978. But his nomination had an unusual twist. The Republican primary in Virginia was originally won, not by Warner, but by one Richard Obenschain, a conservative Republican and one noted at the time -- slightly pre-Reagan -- as a rising star among conservative Republicans. He beat John Warner in that primary by a substantial margin; I do not recall the vote being close. Then Richard Obenschain was tragically killed in a plane crash, whereupon the Republican Party gave the nomination to Warner, and the rest is history. I ...

WASHINGTON- Sources close to the situation have told BSNN that there is not only talk of divorce around the White House these days, but also rampant discussion of Mrs. Clinton's new love interest. These same sources confirm that Mrs. Clinton and singer Harry Belafonte, seen here kissing at a recent staff meeting in her White House office, are preparing to make public their on again off again affair. "We all knew that Hillary was a big fan of Harry's," said one White House insider. "What we didn't know was the extent of her fanaticsism about him." With songs like Will ...

NRA winning gun fight Group thwarted passage of gun-control legislation By Michael Romano Denver Rocky Mountain News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association is credited by even its fiercest foes with the biggest political victory of 1999 -- steamrolling gun-control advocates with a powerful mix of political savvy and cold cash. Gun-control proposals, a top priority for Democrats, remain bottled up in the legislative limbo of a conference committee. And it's not certain whether those measures, including three-day background checks on gun-show sales, will be seriously addressed anytime soon. But the NRA's success is only the first ...

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Speaking Out Even as USS Liberty's Heroic Captain Receives New Honor, Coverup of Israeli Attack on His Ship Continues By Paul Findley March 1998 Issue, Pages 26, 88 For providing heroic leadership under fire, despite severe personal wounds, Captain William L. McGonagle, U.S. Navy retired, is the well-deserved recipient of two of the highest honors our nation can bestow. But on both occasions the presentation received little public notice, and the U.S. Navy took care to omit important details of his heroism and the identity of the attacking military forces. His heroism is exceptional, partly because it occurred when the ...

Seattle's army of anarchists heads for UK Tom Rhodes in Seattle AMERICAN anarchists who orchestrated last week's violent protests against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle are to join forces with British militants. They plan to take part in a day of action in Britain on May 1, signalling the growing strength of a transatlantic network of dissent. A group known as the Eugene anarchists, from Oregon, who were accused by police of attacking buildings in Seattle, has established links with British activists there. David Field, 31, from Brighton, who is associated with Reclaim the Streets - the main organisers ...

Misfire of neighbor's handgun killed activist's daughter Million moms plan march against guns By Carla Crowder Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer When Anne Coakley got the call that her daughter had been shot, she responded in quintessential mom fashion. I'll go there, she thought, I can fix her. The mother will take care of it. Everything will be fine. But before her plane had even left Chicago for Boulder, Coakley's daughter was dead. Next May, mothers from across the United States plan to gather in Washington, D.C., on a grass-roots mission for tougher gun laws. Coakley will be ...

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I was first introduced to George W. Bush by our common friend, the great game of baseball. The handsome son of the President and former CIA director had emerged from repeated lucrative business failures as an owner of the Texas Rangers. With a massive stadium deal in the works, it was an opportune time for the admitted party boy to be set up in the no-work partnership. The investment proved a bonanza. Bush and his Daddy's backers walked away with an astounding profit.The same shadowy circle that financed George's baseball scheme floated his run for governor in Texas. They helped ...

VIN SUPRYNOWICZ But no honest citizen needs a gun ... right? http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Dec-05-Sun-1999/opinion/12482257.html One of the staple mantras of the gun grabbers -- we're not supposed to think about it (since statistics show it's 99 percent wrong), just chant it until it lulls us into a feeling of sweet repose -- is that, "If you own a firearm you're just as likely to have it taken away and used against you." Right? I guess that's why I took so quickly to a new book which Floyd Coons at Master Shooters handed me the other day. "The Best Defense: True Stories of ...

HONG KONG, Dec 5, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) China sentenced a U.S.-based missile expert to 15 years in jail for leaking state secrets in a trial held last week, a Hong Kong-based human rights organization said Saturday. Hua Di, a Chinese-born U.S. green card holder was tried and sentenced on November 25 by the Beijing Intermediate People's Court, the Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said. Hua filed an appeal with the Supreme People's Court on Thursday the center said. Hua, 63, had been studying at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford ...

There was a question that Fox News should have asked Alan Keyes: Why is your campaign falling apart in Iowa? Why did your State Campaign Vice Chairman resign in August and your State Campaign Chairman Ron Granzow resign, last week? Why did you have to rush in a worker from UTAH to IOWA to oversee your campaign? How can you go forward when you are in last place in Iowa?

Timeline of NATO Response to Albanian Mob Attack and Murder of Aged Serbs By The Associated Press12/5/99 A timeline of U.N. police response to mob assault on Serb family in Pristina: 12:30 a.m. -- Two U.N. officers see fire in street 200 yards away. 12:40 a.m. -- First unit arrives close to scene of burning car, sees victims, tries to get patrol car through mob. Officer who sticks his head out window punched in face; efforts to get one victim into car fail. Mob rocks vehicle, and officers retreat. 12:50 a.m. -- Second units arrive, but still unable to get ...

Rosy assessments of the nation's declining crime rate wrongly focus on short-term drops from crime peaks early in the decade and ignore the overall rise of violence since the 1960s, according to a new report. The 30-year update of a landmark study by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence found that violent crime in major cities reported to the FBI has risen by 40 percent since 1969. The new study is intended as a counterpoint to the drumbeat of optimistic reports describing the current drop in crime, and it offers a sober reminder that the United ...