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Paris Drake is quite a piece of work. His criminal career started when he was 14, and he has been arrested 22 times in the intervening 18 years. Drake, a New York native who has no fixed address, has served time for drug-dealing, assault, weapons possession, larceny, and burglary. His prison sentences have ranged from a day to four years, and each time he was released he picked up where he left off. Then, on November 16, he became enraged because he couldn’t raise enough money to buy crack. So he picked up a six-pound paving stone and hurled ...

Dec 13, 1999 - 01:20 AM The Lewinsky Story Revisited By Greg Toppo Associated Press Writer ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) - Maryland prosecutors allege that Linda Tripp committed a crime when she taped her phone calls with Monica Lewinsky. This week they hope to convince a judge that their prosecution is untainted by Mrs. Tripp's immunized statements in the investigation of President Clinton. Five of Ken Starr's investigators, New York book agent Luciane Goldberg and possibly Ms. Lewinsky herself are to testify in a hearing that could determine whether the case will go to trial. Mrs. Tripp on Saturday ...

Russian Political Ads Reflect Economic Focus Promises to End Poverty, Corruption Outweigh Foreign Policy Concerns By David Hoffman Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, December 13, 1999; Page A19 MOSCOW, Dec. 12—In the Communist Party's television advertisement, a construction hard hat is slammed down on a table. Then a mobile phone. The muscular arm of a laborer takes up an arm-wrestling pose. A businessman's arm, with cuff links and a fancy watch, accepts the challenge. As the years of the 1990s tick by, the businessman almost wins. But in the closing scene, the worker triumphs. In the final week of Russia's ...

U.S., Cuba Discuss Immigration Pact Washington and Havana at Odds on Smuggling, Return of Illegal Migrants By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 13, 1999; Page A19 HAVANA—Cuba says the United States promotes the smuggling of illegal immigrants by sea to Florida even as it professes to want to stop the practice. Washington says Havana impedes the legal emigration of Cuban physicians and other medical personnel to the United States in violation of existing agreements. While the fate of one small Cuban boy found floating off the Florida coast has dominated relations between the two countries in recent ...

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. -- Back in the 30's, my Uncle Fred, a collector of political jokes, told one about a president falling out of an airplane over an Iowa cornfield. When rescuers arrived, fearing the worst, they found a farmer behind his plow but no sign of the chief executive. Under excited questioning, the farmer confirmed that the great man had hit the ground right over there. Then where was he now? "Buried him," the farmer said. In his anguish, one of the president's men cried out, "Then he's dead?" The farmer replied, "He kept saying he wasn't, but everybody ...

To anyone interested: There are 2 petitions online at e-thepeople.com. While I have seen the debates on Freerepublic on the sales tax or flat tax and we may disagree on which would be best, I think we would all agree that the income tax has to go. Not too long ago, I stumbled across this site. It basically allows anyone to create a petition, collect signatures and have the petition sent to the right "officials" anywhere in the country. I thought why not put it to good use. Currently there are two petitions at the site dealing with ending ...

www.washtimes.com Waiting for John Huang By Published 12/13/99 The House Government Reform Committee, whose efforts to investigate the wide-ranging campaign-finance scandal involving the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign have been relentlessly impeded in its work. The House Government Reform Committee, whose efforts to investigate the wide-ranging campaign-finance scandal involving the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign have been relentlessly impeded in its work. Soon, however, the committee will finally hear testimony from John Huang, the man at the center of the scandal. Last month, the committee voted unanimously to grant immunity to ...

WASHINGTON -- Competition is the driving force of free enterprise. Concentrated power is the greatest danger to capitalism. Two government watchdogs are charged with protecting competition: the Justice Department's antitrust division, a creature of the executive branch, and the Federal Trade Commission, an independent agency created by Congress. Oversight pays for itself; indeed, Justice brings in $10 in fines for every $1 in its budget. But the F.T.C. and Justice are overwhelmed by the rising momentum toward concentration throughout American big business. If AT&T ultimately faces off against the proposed MCI-Worldcom-Sprint merger, the two would control 70 percent of their ...

The Real Threat to National Security The current policy being enforced by the Department of Defense that requires the American Military to submit to untested anthrax vaccines has caused an unprecedented rift between the DoD and the Armed Forces. While the Secretary of Defense and his underlings hold fast to their undocumented claims, the American Gulf War Veterans Association (AGWVA) and other organizations continue to provide evidence and documentation that clearly show these vaccines and drugs are not only unsafe, but are in many cases causing injury, severe reactions and long term disabilities. Senate Report 103-97, the Anthrax Safety Sheet ...

Dec 12, 1999 - 09:04 PM Yugoslav Premier Warns NATO to Stay Out of Montenegro Tensions The Associated Press [Emphasis added] BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Yugoslavia's premier warned NATO against any attempt to intervene in tensions between Montenegro and Serbia, saying the army would defend the country, a newspaper reported Sunday. Premier Momir Bulatovic made the comments Saturday after U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark said NATO was watching "very closely" the situation in Montenegro. The republic, long chafing at Serbia's domination of Yugoslavia, has sought greater autonomy, or even independence. Fears were raised of a new conflict in the region ...

British gay pair father surrogate twins in US ISSUE 1662Monday 13 December 1999 British gay pair father surrogate twins in USBy Tara Womersley    Latest news - Stonewall  Family Pride Coalition  Gay Parent Magazine Online  TWO British homosexuals have become joint fathers of twins by an American surrogate mother in a £200,000 deal. Barrie Drewitt and Tony Barlow will be registered as the parents of a boy and a girl called Aspen and Saffron. Neither the mother nor the woman who donated the egg will be on the birth certificates, although it is thought that they will become godparents. ...

Dateline North Pole--A fierce battle ended in a stand-off today as a multi-jurisdictional task force of federal law enforcement agents tried to arrest the leader of a militant doomsday cult who called themselves "Elves," living in a heavily fortified compound at the North Pole. Elves & Claus Cult, cont'd.

ISSUE 1662Monday 13 December 1999 Hate and fury revealed in Columbine killers' videosBy Toby Harnden in Washington    Columbine: Tragedy and recovery - Denver Post Online  Memorial for Columbine High school  Keep Schools Safe [US]  THE motives of two teenagers who killed 13 people in the Columbine High School massacre became clearer yesterday as details were released of home videos they had made. These show them arguing about whether Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino would be best suited to make a film about the atrocity. It was disclosed that Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, made five tapes ...

U.S. migration policy doesn't deter treacherous journeys Cuban smuggling on rise BY JAY WEAVER jweaver@herald.com Lost in the custody -- and Cold War -- clash over Elian Gonzalez is the dangerous trade of smuggling Cubans to the United States. The 6-year-old Cuban boy could be the illegal industry's poster child. Elian lost his mother, stepfather and nine others when their boat capsized in the Straits of Florida during Thanksgiving week. The only lucky survivors in this suspected smuggling operation were two other adults and Elian, who was miraculously rescued from an inner tube by fishermen. The boy is now caught ...

Washington Bulletin: National Review's Internet Update for 12/6/99 http://www.nationalreview.com/ by Ramesh Ponnuru and John J. Miller McCAIN'S PICK Asked over the weekend whether he shared George W. Bush's admiration for Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, John McCain said yes and volunteered Sandra Day O'Connor as another Justice he admires. Well, at least he didn't name David Souter - a protégé of McCain campaign chairman Warren Rudman and the most left-wing Supreme. Justice O'Connor votes with the conservatives on many issues, including federalism. Home-state pride ought to be considered, too, since O'Connor is from Arizona. Still, McCain's answer ...

The Lessons of Seattle by Bruce Elmore Well, the Circus-in-Seattle appears to be winding down, and upon close examination of the events that occurred there, I have gleaned what I feel are a number of useful tactics which will be necessary for freedom lovers to use sooner or later. It must be obvious to all but the most completely stupid among us that the protestors won this battle. While I personally disagree with this band of Luddites, I must admit that their tactical and strategic planning was completely successful. Smart people learn from others, whether they agree with them ...

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Where should rafter boy live? S. Florida split 9 of 10 local Cubans want Elian here BY CAROL ROSENBERG crosenberg@herald.com A Herald poll on little Elian Gonzalez's future shows a sharply divided South Florida: Cuban Americans overwhelmingly believe the 6-year-old shipwreck survivor should stay in Miami. White non-Hispanics and blacks believe, with far less conviction, that the boy should go to Cuba to live with his father. The results were somewhat surprising, pollster Rob Schroth said, because Cuban Americans were even more strident than expected and non-Cubans were more sympathetic to the father. Illustrating a nearly unanimous community, a staggering ...

U.S. team heads to Cuba for talks MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS HAVANA, Dec. 12 — With a custody dispute still raging over a 6-year-old Cuban boy rescued at sea, a high-level U.S. delegation arrived in Havana on Saturday for crucial migration talks with President Fidel Castro’s government. The battle for the boy’s heart also continued, as Elian Gonzalez was introduced to Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters in Florida on Sunday. THE EMOTION-CHARGED case of Elian Gonzalez, which has brought the worst bilateral flare-up in years between the decades-old political foes, was sure to dominate the talks. “The Cubans ...

Just a quick update from the field: Keyes spoke to about 125 people on Friday night in Storm Lake, Iowa. President of the local College Republicans admitted that Bush had refused an invitation to address a crowd there, although Forbes had accepted and was coming in the next week. Keyes was half an hour late owing to wind (he flew in in a two-engine prop plane), but no one left the venue until well after he was finished speaking. The campaign collected about 100 volunteer cards. On Friday, he spoke in Omaha to what the Director of Metro Right-to-Life called ...