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Lawyers representing the American relatives of a six-year-old Cuban boy at the centre of an international custody dispute have filed a petition demanding that he be granted political asylum in the United States. The lawyers said they were worried that the boy, Elian Gonzalez, would have been returned to Cuba if they had not filed the application. Both sides are playing politics with Elian Elian was rescued from the Atlantic Ocean two weeks ago after apparently surviving three days clinging to an inner tube after the boat carrying him and a dozen other Cuban refugees capsized and sank. Ten drowned ...

I believe from the polls that I have studied and the interviews that I have conducted with voters, that most Americans are wanting a president who has a positive, optimistic message and vision concerning our Nation and a leader that will maintain the status quo. People are tired of scandal and partisan bickering. They don't want to dwell on our short-comings and faults but our strengths. They don't want radical surgery but band-aid cures for our ills. They don't want to feel guilty about anything or anybody. What does this lead to, in practical terms, for the presidential election of ...

LEGAL GRINCH -- PART 2 There sometimes comes a time when writers catch a little flack for what they publish. Actually, if a writer is not careful, someone could call an unscrupulous attorney into play and take the publication to court. One such instance for this publication was because of an article titled "Legal Grinch" in issue #97 on August 9, 1998. That story was about Rick Ganulin, an attorney employed as assistant solicitor for the City of Cincinnati. As Cincinnati newspapers reported, Ganulin took a day off from work to file a federal lawsuit to ban Christmas as ...

GUNS AND THE GARGOYLE © by Norman Liebmann Among the mournful remembrances of the Holocaust, there is told an event that occurred at Buchenwald. As doomed Jews, stripped and shivering, lined up about to enter the gas chambers, a Jewish woman, in order to distract the SS guard, began dancing naked before him, and, as he watched, amused and his attention diverted from the grisly business at hand, she grabbed the pistol from his belt and shot him dead. (Jehovah must have shed tears of sadness for his people, but now they were mixed with tears of pride - for ...

With Hillary, Al off and running, Clinton left alone By Thomas Hargrove WASHINGTON -- Life at the top is becoming increasingly lonely for President Clinton. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton announced this week she will move to their Chappaqua, N.Y., home after the Christmas holidays to focus on her Senate campaign. Vice President Al Gore, once a regular lunch companion, has vowed to spend most of his time outside of Washington as his own presidential bid heats up. Almost all of the inner circle of friends and advisers that surrounded Clinton at the beginning of his presidency have left, ...

NO EXCUSE FOR SEATTLE Late in the day, that Tuesday in Seattle, the Secret Service placed the downtown Westin hotel, where President Clinton stayed during the WTO conference, under lockdown, The Associated Press reported. The mayor also put downtown Seattle under curfew. Wednesday was the second night downtown Seattle was under a curfew to keep demonstrators from disrupting the World Trade Organization conference that virtually ground to a halt when violence erupted Tuesday, another news report said. Other reports stated that the tear gas was so strong that non-protesters were forced against the store- front windows. The gas spread ...

  Kosovo's Thaqi urges quick power-sharing By Andrew Gray Hashim Thaqi (credit: Süddeutsche Zeitung) PRISTINA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The leader of Kosovo's self- proclaimed provisional government has urged the territory's U.N. mission to speed up the process of forming a joint administration with local politicians. ``It should be formed very quickly. Time is running out,'' Hashim Thaqi, a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), told Reuters. U.N. officials and local leaders have been working for months on a formula to get politicians from Kosovo more directly involved in the international administration established here in June, after NATO ...

  CLINTON TO DISARM MINORITIES It happens during every Democratic administration and sometimes even during a Republican administration when there is a strong Democratic Congress. But, this time, Congress has been completely circumvented. When judged only by the results the action would have, it appears that the Clinton administration wants to disarm most minorities. This isn't the first Democratic administration with that intention, though. From the Roosevelt administration to LBJ, Democrats have been trying to disarm the Black community. First it was gun registration and licensing. Then they went after the "Saturday Night Specials," inexpensive handguns that are the ...

NATO’s Latest Problem: Montenegro 9 December 1999 SUMMARY In the most significant incident since Montenegro began to assert its independence, a Yugoslav military unit on Dec. 8 seized the airport at Podgorica, the capital. The army controlled the airport for 12 hours and then left, allowing normal operations to resume. But the tit-for-tat exchanges between Montenegro and Belgrade threaten to draw NATO into the confrontation, unless the alliance launches a diplomatic effort to avoid another Balkan war. ANALYSIS In response to increasing provocations by the[Albanian-backed] government of Montenegro, a Yugoslav military unit on Dec. 8 briefly took control of ...

My 'Conversation' with AlGore Rush Limbaugh The Limbaugh Letter  9-99 Rush: Mr. Vice President. To begin, I understand that you still stand by every word in your 1993 book, Earth in the Balance - which warns us, among other things, that the internal combustion engine is one of the greatest threats to the planet.  Gore: Although the book has been attacked - chiefly by political opponents of the sweeping changes in policy it recommends - no challenge to the accuracy of its facts or the fairness of its analysis has been sustained. Moi? Rush: Well, before we get to ...

LISBON, Portugal, Dec. 11 — A Portuguese passenger plane with 35 people aboard crashed on Saturday in the mid-Atlantic Azores islands and rescue officials said it was not known if there were any survivors.

  NEW YORK: PLEASE VOTE "ABC" He is an accomplished con artist. She is an adroit illusionist, skilled at deceiving in the arenas of honesty and integrity. Both are proficient, self-serving propagandists and out and out liars. We have been blessed with the benefit of term limits and we'll soon be rid of the professional con artist. But she wants to continue working to impose the dark forces of socialism on the American people by running for the Senate. A dangerous socialist ideologue, an obsessive patron of a form of government controlled health care that would ruin the world's ...

Dec. 10, 1999, 8:56PM `New left' stirs Chile's presidential race By ANTHONY FAIOLA Washington Post VILLA HERMOSA, Chile -- Cold rain drenched the crowd gathered for a political rally in this poverty-stricken pocket of mud roads and wooden huts in southern Chile. A blue-gray Peugeot approached, and applause erupted as a union leader grabbed his makeshift bull horn and shouted: "Here he is! The next president of Chile! The president of the poor! Mr. Ricardo Lagos!" On cue, Lagos, 61, stepped out of the car, exuding confidence. And why not? In a nation long considered an international model of the ...

For a couple of reasons last night I was searching news sources for Houston Texas, went to several News Talk Radio stations' webpages and the Chronicle paper and a few other obscure sources and began to see a particular pattern of "road work", "road closures" and "lane closures" and other reasons WHY HUGE cement barricades happen to up in MAJOR FREEWAY interchanges and major intersections throughout Houston...granted we have year round road work...but some of these are suspicious! The pattern is quite simple, the city authorities HAVE established an action plan to control traffic in the event of a catastrophe. ...

December 3, 1999 Dear Family, Friends and Fellow Americans: I have lost faith and trust with the leadership of the Republican Party. A wife should never trust her husband with the title to their home if he were going to Las Vegas to gamble. I believe you and I have trusted, the Establishment of both parties, for far too,long with the title to our country. The Internationalists and Insiders in Washington are willing to gamble with our birthright, our inheritance. They are willing to surrender the sovereignty of this great Republic on the altar of a "New World Order." I ...

Saturday December 11 10:34 AM ET Clinton Promotes Food Safety for Holidays ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - President Clinton promoted two food safety measures on Saturday -- one to block salmonella contamination in eggs and another to keep tainted imports from American tables. ``With the actions we're taking today, our families can have the peace of mind they deserve every holiday season, and indeed, every day of the year,'' Clinton said in his weekly radio address. Clinton said 3.3 million eggs each year are infected with salmonella bacteria, causing 300,000 cases of illness, and the new program aimed to eliminate these ...

THE TORONTO STAR, Friday, December 10, 1999 OPINION  Where is our western morality now?  Richard Gwyn  Home and Away CHECHNYA IS EXACTLY like Kosovo. It's a small Muslim enclave within a much larger Christian Orthodox country from which it is trying to gain its independence in order to end grievous oppression, both today and in history. Chechnya also is completely different from Kosovo. The present conflict began when some Chechens invaded Dagestan, a neighbouring republic of Russia. The Chechens also provoked the attack by the fact they had breached the ceasefire they had won - it included a provision ...

MIDI - ONE TIN SOLDIER There was once a German madman who lived a long time ago He had plans and if they followed peace and joy they all would know He had said give up your weapons, you’d don’t need a single one They had followed very blindly and they gave up every gun Government is built on power…unrestrained if they so choose If you have no way to fight them…you will be the one to lose So wake up patriotic people…face the light of day When the last gun has been taken…all your liberty fades away History ...

Bradley Dismisses Heart Condition As 'Nuisance' Updated 4:04 PM ET December 11, 1999 PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley, who admitted himself to a California hospital on Friday because of an irregular heartbeat, Saturday dismissed the condition as "a nuisance" that would not impede his campaign. "It will have no effect whatsoever," Bradley told reporters at a news conference here. Bradley, 56, once a star professional basketball player who says he works out regularly on a stair climber, was released Friday without undergoing treatment for the condition called atrial fibrillation. The former U.S. senator from New ...

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