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WTO in Seattle: Deal struck to free all jailed protesters on own recognizance By Byron Acohido and Nancy Bartley, Seattle Times staff reporters A deal was struck last night to release all protesters still in jail after the tumultuous World Trade Organization conference last week, as long as those arrested agreed to return to court to face charges. The agreement, negotiated with city attorneys, called for as many as 300 protesters to be released on their own recognizance, said defense attorney Jackie Walsh. The first to be processed walked out the front door of the King County Jail about 7:30 ...

Failure of the Public Trust, FBIcover-up.com Frequently Asked Questions Both supporters and critics have asked us the same questions about various aspects of the investigations into the death, and about our motives in pursuing the case. Many of those questions appear below, along with our answers. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for revisions to this area of the site. ------------------------------------------------------------ The Foster family appears to have accepted the official suicide conclusion. So, isn't pursuing this case thoughtless of the feelings of Mr. Foster's family? Isn't it time to let Mr. Foster rest in peace? The Foster ...

The History Channel just ran an interesting program on the events leading up to Pearl Harbor, concluding on the basis of recently declassified documents that Franklin Roosevelt did indeed know in advance of the attack on Pearl Harbor and allowed it to happen in order to enrage Americans into a war they otherwise would have not supported. The revelation that Roosevelt knew of the attack and allowed it to happen is not exactly news, although this History Chennel program is the first time the story has gone "mainstream". But it's important to look at how Roosevelt maneuvered the American ...

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 estimated processing speed of at least 30 billion operations per second. Nearly all high-performance computers previously exported to China were estimated to perform 7 billion operations per second or less. The IBM supercomputer, one of the most capable on the market, is intended for China's Meteorological Administration, a branch ...

WTO in Seattle: Agricultural issues toppled WTO talks By Stephen H. Dunphy, Seattle Times business columnist It was Wednesday, midweek in the World Trade Organization marathon, and President Clinton and WTO Director General Mike Moore were lunching with delegates in the Spanish Ballroom of the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel, far from the madding crowd in the streets outside. As Clinton and Moore prepared to give their speeches to the delegates, a television film-crew member stepped in front of the podium, holding up a white napkin for a color check for news cameras. Moore joked that the white napkin could become ...

Sorry for the Vanity.. I will make it quick Has the possibility of a FR webring ever been considered, discussed or mentioned to Jim or John? Is this a good idea, bad idea...etc? Input Please

Civil-rights groups call for investigation By Lisa Pemberton-Butler, Seattle Times South bureau Two local civil-rights groups are calling for an independent investigation on the way Seattle police and city officials handled protest activities during the World Trade Organization meeting last week. The Seattle chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has asked the city to form an independent commission to review policies and police tactics used to stop WTO protests. In addition, a coalition of local minority civil-rights groups - including the Seattle branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Urban League of ...

Not So Serious in Seattle President Yuks it Up Over Protests On at least three occasions, Clinton made light of the violent confrontations in which demonstrators and passers-by were tear-gassed, downtown Seattle businesses had their windows broken and hundreds of people were arrested. (Khue Bui/AP Photo)   By Josh Gerstein ABCNEWS.com W A S H I N G T O N, Dec. 3 — President Clinton judged the protests that marred the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle this week worthy of condemnation — and laughter.     On at least three occasions, Clinton made light of the violent confrontations in ...

Mrs. Clinton Spokeswoman Stepping Down 8.15 p.m. ET (128 GMT) December 5, 1999 WASHINGTON — The spokeswoman who saw Hillary Rodham Clinton through the Monica Lewinsky scandal but was sidelined as the first lady began preparing for a Senate campaign said on Sunday she plans to step down. Marsha Berry told Reuters she will leave her job as the first lady's spokeswoman soon after the first of the year to take a job as vice president of communications for the Export-Import Bank, an overseas lending agency. "It's time. I've been here three-and-a-half years and it all comes to an ...

Yahoo! Asia - News Entertainment Sunday, December 5 10:19 AM SGT US president's singer brother meets North Korean officials SEOUL, Dec 5 (AFP) - The singer brother of US President Bill Clinton held talks with North Korean officials on the eve of his rare concert Sunday with pop singers from the two Koreas, Pyongyang's media said. The meeting between Roger Clinton and North Korean officials led by Kim Yong-Sun, chairman of the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, took place Saturday, according to North Korean state radio monitored in Seoul. Details of the talks were not given. The president's brother had been ...

Yahoo! Asia - News Entertainment Sunday, December 5 10:19 AM SGT US president's singer brother meets North Korean officials SEOUL, Dec 5 (AFP) - The singer brother of US President Bill Clinton held talks with North Korean officials on the eve of his rare concert Sunday with pop singers from the two Koreas, Pyongyang's media said. The meeting between Roger Clinton and North Korean officials led by Kim Yong-Sun, chairman of the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, took place Saturday, according to North Korean state radio monitored in Seoul. Details of the talks were not given. The president's brother had been ...

The more pressure there is to regulate firearms, the stronger the National Rifle Association becomes. But like the besieged tobacco lobby, the NRA can't resist forever. If ever there was a time when the gun lobby should be vanquished, it is now. This year alone, there have been Columbine (15 dead, 23 wounded), the Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth (eight dead, seven wounded), and the North Valley Jewish Community Center near Los Angeles (five wounded). Then Atlanta (nine dead, 13 wounded), and just the other week, Honolulu (seven dead) and Seattle (two dead, two wounded). But the National Rifle ...

Then there's the money. Lots of it. With $7 million to disperse, the NRA's political action committee, confidently called the Political Victory Fund, regularly ranks in the top ten of givers to candidates for federal office, mostly Republicans. Its infamous antigovernment, pro-gun direct-mail solicitations (which once referred to federal employees as "jackbooted government thugs") bring in nearly three times as much money by tapping a loyal band of 900,000 donors. Small but regular contributions from this group help finance lobbying efforts in Washington and in the states by the NRA's fearsome advocacy arm, the Institute for Legislative Action. Lately the ...

Once again, the NRA righted itself. After years of losing on the issues, especially the Brady bill (1993) and the assault weapons ban (1994), the Knox wing fell into disrepute, and the moderates (a relative term) began to ascend. Last year LaPierre persuaded Heston to become president, giving the organization a more friendly public face. Who could complain about Moses? James Jay Baker also returned after a five-year exile; as chief lobbyist, he is credited with being a comparatively reasonable voice on Capitol Hill. This year the NRA will have a budget surplus of about $5 million. It rents out ...

The partisan underpinnings of the battle make it ripe for a protracted conflict. "This is going to be a major issue in the presidential election," says Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York), the Senate's leading gun-control advocate. "It could be George W. Bush's Achilles' heel." In general, Democrats love to depict the NRA as the devil incarnate, while Republicans accuse Democrats of failing to enforce the laws already on the books. Democrats are secretly as eager as the other side to delay action on gun-control legislation through next year--even if compromise were possible--in order to bludgeon Republicans on election day for ...

PEMBROKE, N.H. - Only eight weeks before the New Hampshire primary, Gov. George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain find themselves in a ferocious competition for first place in the polls here. Mr. Bush views Mr. McCain as his only impediment to the Republican presidential nomination. And that is how Mr. McCain views Mr. Bush. But the two foes have not been behaving like arch rivals. The senator from Arizona and the governor of Texas are going out of their way to be nice to each other. "Normally, when you have two candidates running this close in the polls ...

Rush talking, March 1, 1996, about Alan Keyes being banned from South Carolina debate and then recounts speech made by Keyes in Aiken, South Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I watched a speech last night that Alan Keyes gave because there was another candidate's forum (this was in, I think, Aiken, South Carolina,) and I gotta tell you....you come out of your chair and you stand up and you CHEER...and he took on Forbes and the flat tax and he did it in a way that I'm sure he's done before. I hadn't heard it, though he... he... did touch on what ...

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                                SYDNEY, Australia -- Any data seem different on your computer                               today?                               If you're in Australia, the government has the ability to modify                               your files. Its cyber spooks have been given legal power not only                               to monitor private computers around the country, but to change                               the data they contain.                               The new powers are contained in a bill passed by Australia's                               parliament late last month (the Australian Security Intelligence                               Organization Legislation Amendment 1999). They now await only                               the largely ceremonial assent of Australia's governor general                               before becoming law.                               ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of mostly Jewish demonstrators on Sunday rallied on the doorstep of Hillary Clinton's U.S. Senate campaign headquarters, demanding the first lady use her influence with the president to win the release of a convicted Israeli spy. The rally of rabbis and community leaders was the second in recent months calling on Clinton to state her position on whether former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard -- who has served 14 years of a life sentence after pleading guilty to selling U.S. military secrets to Israel -- should be freed. ``We are not going away. ...