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MONTREAL — Thousands attended somber memorials marking the 10th anniversary on Monday of Canada's worst mass murder, the slaying of 14 young women by a gunman in a hate-filled anti-feminist rampage at the Universite de Montreal's engineering school. Montreal public schools were closed in memory of those who died in the Ecole polytechnique massacre on December 6, 1989. About 7,000 teachers and school employees gathered at the city's main hockey arena for a morning of speeches and musical performances led by children. The theme was a plea for an end to violence against women. At noon, hundreds of engineering students ...

Mrs. Clinton expects to move soon Monday, 6 December 1999 19:05 (GMT) (UPI Focus) Mrs. Clinton expects to move soon WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she is waiting for the Secret Service to complete its preparations before she begins moving into her new New York home, perhaps as early as the end of the month. The first lady, showing off the White House Christmas decorations to reporters, said she has been packing and sorting through the first family's belongings as she prepares to head off to the $1.7 million home in Chappaqua, N.Y., ...

"LOOK, don't get me wrong. I think those guys who marched around dressed up like turtles are probably fairies. But as long as they're against the same thing as me, I got no problem. I think this shows how bad the World Trade Organisation is, that so many different people can protest together." Thus the wonderfully named Mike Crudes, trade union member and Seattle protester, to a reporter from The New Republic in Seattle last week. His was not the only epiphany to be found on the mocha-strewn pavements of the northwest capital. The Nation, an old leftist magazine, ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 5—Hundreds of mostly Jewish demonstrators rallied today on the doorstep of Hillary Rodham Clinton'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. This is only the beginning of ...

I don't normally do vanities, but I had to do this one. I got up this morning and watched the news for a while. Fox was running the story about the shootings in Oklahoma non-stop for 45 min! Even at the top of the hour they didn't take a break, just kept repeating the "details" ad naseum. I turned to CNN which I normally don't watch and their top story was the Miranda case and the also talked about the Mars probe as well as the shooting. But not Fox. Just more and more details (one student was wonded in ...

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 Newsweek. While a secret court must approve any national-security wiretaps on U.S. citizens, there is still ...

That Pat Buchanan recently left the Republican party is not news. That he is attempting to join forces with the Labor Movement is not news either. However, Buchanan made news last week in Seattle by expressing his desire to see the World Trade Organization(WTO) enforce U.S. labor law world-wide. This is not Conservatism, and neither is it in the best interest of the United States. One of the unhappy by-products of our declining educational system is a lack of basic understanding about economics and how the free market system works. To say that working conditions need to be improved in ...

Latest ABC report is that the student who opened fire on a school this morning was still pulling the trigger on an empty gun when catured. He is reported as being "unrepentent", unable to recall who he shot, or more telling, why. I want to knoew if this kid was on mood altering drugs.

December 6 All orders, issued by the head of the UN civilian mission in Kosovo Bernard Coushner, are infringing on Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity. This is the opinion of the popular Yugoslav "Politika" newspaper. Among other things, today's issue of the "Politika" newspaper says that Mr. Coushner's order, providing for the introduction of the new car registration numbers means the realization of the idea on independent Kosovo, which is running counter to the resolution of the UN Security Council on Kosovo. The "Politika" newspaper mentions that before holding his post Mr. Coushner said that this resolution is his "bible" ...

The world watches as Russia wages war to reclaim control of its breakaway province of Chechnya. Is that all its military is up to there? A writer for a respected independent newspaper published daily in Moscow recently raised that question and came up with a horrifying prospect: Chechnya could be a real-life proving ground for a nightmarish new Russian super-bomb designed to exterminate — like rats in a cellar — enemy troops dug in to defend cities. Should that fail to dislodge Muslim rebel forces now holed up in subterranean bunkers beneath Grozny, the capital city, even-more awesome weapons of ...

  Mrs. Clinton expects to move soon Monday, 6 December 1999 19:05 (GMT) (UPI Focus) Mrs. Clinton expects to move soon WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she is waiting for the Secret Service to complete its preparations before she begins moving into her new New York home, perhaps as early as the end of the month. The first lady, showing off the White House Christmas decorations to reporters, said she has been packing and sorting through the first family's belongings as she prepares to head off to the $1.7 million home in ...

Cuban fishing boat hijacked by five gunman who are cuban in the Florida straight. US Coast Guard on the way video upcoming.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court set the stage today for determining the fate of the Miranda police warnings, familiar to generations of Americans who have witnessed countless arrests in movies and on television. The justices agreed to decide whether a federal law overturned - or at least dramatically limited - one of the court's most famous decisions, one that since 1966 has required police to warn criminal suspects of their rights before questioning them. The law says any confession or incriminating statement is admissible in court "if it is voluntarily given." Getting a Miranda warning is one factor ...

MEDIUM RARE December 6, 1999 IDOLATRY IN U.S. FOREST SERVICE? Is the U.S. Forest Service actually worshipping trees? Logging interests in Minnesota have filed a law suit against the U.S. Forest Service and two environmental groups who have tied up logging in that state. According to a Los Angeles Times article by Stephanie Simon, the suit essentially claims that environmental groups have persuaded the Forest Service that trees have “spiritual” value and thus should not be cut down. The Times article says the Forest Service is accused of “foisting the ‘religion’ of the Deep Ecology movement on all Americans by ...

Monday, Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends; We're so glad you could attend, Come inside, come inside. . . (Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Karn Evil 9) Let's face it. Campaign 2000 is not about issues. It's not about political parties. It's not even about candidates. It's a show. Well, farce, actually. It's George W. Bush, up there on stage, mouthing his carefully-rehearsed words, reminding up, for the umpteenth time, that Texas is the 11th largest country in the world, knowing full well that money and political momentum can overcome substance any day of the week. ...

BRADLEY'S HOMAGE TO A RACE-BAITER www.jewishworldreview.com -- BILL BRADLEY LIKES TO TALK about race. He likes to talk about it a lot. He has made it a central theme of his presidential campaign. He describes how his career with the New York Knicks gave him keen insights into racism. He says he became a Democrat because "it was Democrats that stepped forward ... in the Senate and cast their vote for the Civil Rights Act in 1964." (Actually, Republicans voted for the bill en masse while nearly one-third of the Democrats voted against it.) His campaign web site (www.billbradley.com) ...

Parole and escapes put Young on street By Bartholomew Sullivan It's hard to figure why Leonard Jasper `Sonny' Young was free during the time he is suspected of abducting Hillary Johnson from Midtown Memphis. But a still incomplete criminal history of the ex-convict indicates he got the benefit of many doubts and had the advantage in many situations. Born in Hernando, Miss., the last of 12 children, Young was 14 when his father abandoned the family. His tangles with the law apparently began, according to Tennessee Department of Correction records, with an April 1963 arrest for an investigation of homicide. ...

John and Barbara Cochran, those fabulous Beltway insiders and distinguished journalists, took a lot of heat last week, all because they threw a dinner party for Al and Tipper Gore and some of Washington's press elite. When word of the swanky gathering seeped out, there was a little storm. As a senior ABC political correspondent, John Cochran had been assigned to cover the Gore campaign. He swiftly realized how easy it would be for low, suspicious people -- mean-spirited right-wingers, mostly -- to cast his dinner with Al in a negative light. So he told ABC all about it. ...

From the Newsweek issue dated December 13, 1999 HILLARY Next Step: Choosing the Chintz Now that Hillary Clinton is definitely running for Senate, New Yorkers are focusing on when she'll actually take up residence in her house in Chappaqua. Last week the First Lady and her mother, Dorothy Rodham, dropped in to mull paint samples and furnishing styles. But no one in her camp will say who she's chosen to decorate the 110-year-old Colonial, other than to say it's an "old family friend." When Hillary decided to refurbish several rooms at the White House in 1993, she turned to ...

Spokeswoman: Gov. likely to push another flat income tax Associated Press NASHVILLE -- Gov. Don Sundquist (R) may push for a flat income tax similar to the one he proposed in October if a third special legislative session is called next month, his spokeswoman says. Sundquist's plan included a 3.75 percent income tax, rolled back the sales tax from 6 percent to 3.75 percent, and eliminated the 6 percent sales tax on groceries and the 6 percent Hall income tax on investment proceeds. Sundquist called a special session on Nov. 1 to consider the plan but the proposal went nowhere, ...