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Israel says it can't foot bill for Golan pullback Updated 5:17 AM ET December 12, 1999 By Megan Goldin JERUSALEM, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Israel could not fund the cost of a pullout from the Golan Heights if it hands over the strategic plateau to Syria under a future peace treaty, Israel's Finance Minister Avraham Shohat said on Sunday. Shohat said the cost of removing the 17,000 settlers who live in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in mostly rural villages and kibbutzim was exorbitant. He indicated Israel was hoping the United States would help fund any pullback. "I have no doubt ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The activist who successfully lobbied the White House for the release of 14 jailed Puerto Rican separatists was a leader in the terrorist organization FALN, a congressional report obtained on Saturday alleges. The report said that Luis Nieves Falcon corresponded with several top Clinton administration officials on the clemency and was a member and leader of the militant Puerto Rican independence group. The report, prepared by Rep. Daniel Burton's Committee on Government Reform, included letters documenting Falcon's correspondence and at least one meeting with the Clinton administration. And it cited federal law enforcement sources who had ...

Archive Photos Fur Flies Between Naomi Campbell and PETA It may not be a cat fight, but the fur is definitely flying between Naomi Campbell and animal-rights activist Dan Matthews, reports the New York Daily News. The lovely Naomi says she was sickened to hear that Matthews, of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, admires Gianni Versace's killer, Andrew Cunanan, "because he got Versace to finally stop using furs." The supermodel told the New York paper that Matthew's remarks were "unbelievably insensitive" and "extremely offensive." Campbell, who's pro-fur and now anti-PETA, says, "I am doubly thrilled to no longer ...

Had the American Civil Liberties Union been active in 1785, James Madison might have been in big trouble on June 20. Madison, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, had the temerity that day to say, ''We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.'' Possibly, Madison could have defended himself against charges of mixing religion with government by pleading ignorance. After ...

Market Watch: Chasing Ghosts at Nasdaq December 12, 1999 MARKET WATCH Chasing Ghosts at Nasdaq By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Although several factors contribute to the increasingly common roller-coaster action in stocks, some veteran traders have an intriguing theory about what's driving many of the moves. They say many of the biggest price swings are a result of manipulation by traders who place sizable orders to buy stocks on electronic trading systems and withdraw them seconds later. MORE ON INVESTING Related Articles Cola Makers Leave Their Bottlers Flat Investing With: Richard T. Weiss, Strong Common Stock Market Insight: Sleepy Steps for ...

McCain the new frontrunner in N.H. By BRIAN DEKONING Democrat Staff Writer PORTSMOUTH — Arizona Sen. John McCain is officially the front-runner in New Hampshire. The results of three polls released this week show McCain leading Texas Gov. George W. Bush among those likely to vote in the state primary. A poll released Thursday by Franklin Pierce College and WNDS-TV shows McCain with 43 percent of the vote and Bush with 28 percent, his lowest to date in a state poll. The margin of error in that poll was five percent. "If someone had told me that we’d be leading ...

COSCO (Group) Company singed a contract with Guangzhou Ship Engineering International Co., Ltd. at 11:30 on the morning of Dec. 8, 1999, for the building of two 18,000ton submersible vessels. The proposed building of this two submersible vessels is based on COSCO's Guangzhou's operation principle which focuses on special-purpose vessels. The order of this two ships is also required by the formation of COSCO Guangzhou's special-purpose fleet. The designs of the two ships were introduced from the works European companies. An advanced electronic propelling system was included into the design. This is the first order that the domestic ship yards ...

The Third Way was my idea, says Gaddafi By Philip Jacobson MUAMMAR GADDAFI, the maverick Libyan leader who sees himself as one of the world's great philosophers, last week was credited by his acolytes with another notable feat - inventing Tony Blair's political credo. The London bureau of the Jana state news agency disclosed that the fount for New Labour's "Third Way" is Col Gaddafi's own celebrated Green Book. Jana announced: "The wisdoms contained in the Green Book clearly form the basis for the Third Way." The colonel, it said, stressed that "the third way, about which they are currently ...

President Clinton's threat to launch a nationwide class-action lawsuit against gun makers is no surprise: Coming up with a constitutionally dubious and wholly inappropriate response to a legitimate problem is standard operating procedure at this White House. To obtain legal standing, the Clintonites say they'll file suit through the Department of Housing and Urban Development on behalf of federally-financed housing projects, where gun violence allegedly remains prevalent. Ironically, however, the announcement comes just weeks after the FBI disclosed that the homicide rate is at its lowest level since the nationwide crime explosion began in 1967 -- and that the drop ...

The poll is from November but... So what do we think about this?

The 1888 Presidential election was very close. Democratic party candidate President Grover Cleveland and running mate Allen G. Thurman of Ohio won the popular election by 95, 713 votes. President Cleveland, however, was not re-elected because he lost the electoral college vote by 65 votes. Instead Benjamin Harrison, former senator from Indiana and the Grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was elected as the 23rd President of the United States. Today a President must win 270 electoral votes, a majority, to become President. If no candidate wins a majority of electoral votes, the 12th Amendment to the Constitution provides for ...

Publisher Steve Forbes, campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination in western Iowa on Friday, questioned Texas Gov. George W. Bush's commitment to opposing abortion and cutting taxes. "If you are not willing to take the pledge, that makes it very difficult to cut taxes," Forbes said during a break in visits to Orange City, Hawarden, Sioux Center and Storm Lake. "That's what the flat tax is all about." Forbes was referring to comments by Bush adviser Karl Rove, who told reporters in Washington, D.C., this week that they shouldn't expect Bush to make the pledge that helped sink his ...

BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : DECEMBER 20, 1999 ISSUE NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Whose World Is It, Anyway? What the Seattle debacle means for the future of globalization Has the U.S. really grown weary of globalization? It's hard to imagine, after more than two decades in which free trade has been the mantra and expansion into new markets the mission. Harder still to believe that the process that has helped sustain the greatest U.S. economic expansion in history and raised millions of people in developing nations from privation might now be halted because of street demonstrations by American youths outside the World ...

Russians Raid Billion-Dollar Silver Mine By John Helmer Dec 10, 1999 -- (The Moscow Tribune) A raid is under way by a group of Russians, never seen before in the mining sector, to capture the assets and the mining license of one of the world’s largest silver mines - the Dukat deposit in the Magadan region. Standing in their way is the Pan American Silver Corporation of Canada, and a group of Russian mining partners, who are backed by the governor of Magadan, Valentin Tsvetkov; the Union of Goldminers headed by Valery Braiko; and indeed, by every major Russian official ...

Cal Thomas Homeless make a comeback THE HOMELESS are making a comeback in the public mind, just in time for Hillary Rodham Clinton's prospective run for a New York Senate seat. The major media forgot about the homeless after Bill Clinton's election because they were only useful in bashing Republican Presidents Bush and Reagan for their "heartless" and "uncaring" policies. In the aftermath of an attack on a woman by a man thought to be homeless, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani ordered police to get the homeless off the streets and put them in shelters, even if they did ...

Bring on the baby in the party hat: Winter storms more of a concern than Y2K There's been a lot of skullduggery about this Y2K thing. For anyone who's been on another planet for the past 18 months, "Y2K" refers to the advent of the year 2000, a turn of events that's supposed to make some computers — not all, mind you — go haywire because they can't count past anything beginning with 19. Because there are so many potentially flawed computers running so much of what passes for the trappings of civilization, the doomsayers among us have made an ...

As the presidential campaign finally gets under way (even George W. Bush is actually showing up for debates), we should wonder if the most important primary of the season is the Media Primary. According to the media conventional wisdom, the Republican race has had one candidate. While they claim to hate the influence of big money in politics, so wowed are they by Bush's fundraising prowess that they forgot their hostility in favor of trumpeting his "inevitability." Picking a nominee through the smoke-filled room has been replaced. All that matters now is the Media Primary. The media shrink the ...

The answer for little Elian: Here is a game we can play with Castro The solution to the case of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez is not to throw him back to Castro's Communist outpost of Cuba like some little fish that is under the weight limit. The solution is for the American government to invite Elian's father to come join his son and aunts and uncles and cousins and live in the freedom of the United States. That is what an American government under Ronald Reagan would have done. That is what a Republican Congress ought to be demanding. But today ...

Forbes basks in the endorsement spotlight By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI, Union Leader Staff Part Three in a continuing series MILFORD — Steve Forbes has no clue the heckler calling himself "the mayor of Milford" is the town's best-known street person. And many in the brightly-lit Milford VFW hall wonder if the gentlemanly millionaire can handle this man with the baseball cap and beer belly. An embarrassed tension fills the room. Someone tries to shush the intruder as Forbes' handlers circle him. Things only get worse. His bellicose protests grow louder, drowning out Forbes' answer to a pig-tailed girl's question of whether ...

Trading liberty for 'free' trade In the fall of 1994 the American people elected a Republican Congress by an overwhelming majority. Part of the message of that election was that the citizens of America wanted their money home, and they wanted their power back at the grass roots. The lame duck Congress which met after that election voted approval for American entry into the World Trade Organization. At the time, I asked every senator who voted for it why he had chosen to repudiate the clear will of the voters and vote for a treaty that put American sovereignty ...