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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton has joined the debate over when to celebrate the new millennium, saying he sides with those who plan to do it this New Year rather than next. But in true Clinton fashion, he also held out the possibility of celebrating twice. ``Maybe I can do it twice, and I'll be the president of two millennial changes,'' Clinton said in a CBS radio interview released on Monday. In the interview, recorded on Saturday, Clinton also voiced a desire to follow the public-service example of former president Jimmy Carter and dismissed calls by former independent counsel Ken ...

Tough on crime One reason that Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush is running even in the presidential polls in Arizona with home state Sen. John McCain is that “he’s the only one who talks about crime,” says legendary Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. “He’s very tough on crime and very tough on juvenile justice,” says Sheriff Arpaio, who instituted the nation’s first female chain gang three years ago. Attending a recent Bush event in Phoenix, Sheriff Arpaio said that even though crime statistics are down nationwide, “Crime is still an issue in the United States.” The sheriff, who calls ...

The gun industry won a round in its legal battles, as a Connecticut state judge dismissed a suit filed against handgun manufacturers and retailers by the city of Bridgeport, Conn. Superior Court Judge Robert McWeeny said in a 35-page ruling Friday that the city lacked authority to file such a suit. The judge didn't address the merits of whether the industry has been negligent in the manufacture or distribution of handguns. But he indicated that individual victims of gun violence would be more appropriate plaintiffs to make these legal claims. Although judges considering similar suits filed by 27 other municipalities ...

SEATTLE -- The riots are over and most of the shattered plate-glass windows have been replaced, but for the city on Puget Sound -- and its mayor -- the fallout is just beginning. Paul Schell, a Democrat elected by a wide margin in 1997, is still taking the heat that some figured would cool down after Police Chief Norm Stamper announced he would resign, making him the first political casualty of the mayhem that marked the World Trade Organization meeting. While no influential Seattleite has publicly called for the mayor's resignation, there is no lack of grumbling over the cracks ...

Daily thought for; Monday December 13th, 1999 You want your pastor to do what??? So, what do You want your pastor to do what??? Oh how many times I have heard folks complain about their pastor. He isn't a good administrator, or he can't even fix the plumbing, or it's just he's been here too long. I worry about those churches, I worry not only about the church, but the members within. And I'll tell you why. The pastor of the church is like the father in a family. He is the man the church should love and respect the ...

Santa, I've been good this year! Honest! Hardly any vanity posts, and I've worked REAL hard for The Cause! So I hope you can find a way to give me what I want for Christmas. And that would be... Available for Sale in Florida, RUSSIAN submarine! "Project 651" is a long range, cruise-missile-carrying diesel submarine. NATO designation - Juliett. Juliett was designed for launching nuclear strikes on the US East Coast cities, using four launchers armed with nuclear cruise missiles. Juliett is the largest existing non-nuclear submarine. Since I'm not a wiz at html, I couldn't imbed the pictures or ...

Original Sources Why Was Clinton's Buddy, the brutal Franjo Tudjman, Never Indicted as a War Criminal? Croatia's Tudjman's Claim to Fame: "Ridding Croatia of Its Serbs" By Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) December 13, 1999 Franjo Tudjman, President of Croatia died Saturday after a long bout with stomach cancer. His claim to fame was, he himself boasted, was "ridding Croatia of its Serbs," with the help, of course, of the U.S. Airforce. Although Knin had been 89% Serbian before the war in Bosnia, Tudjman described the city as "a royal Croatian Town" a reference that harked back to ...

Ask your children something about current TV programs, movies, video games and music, and they likely will tell you many things you have never even heard of before. Do you know why? That's where they are spending an average of 33 hours a week -- almost as much time as the average full-time employee puts in on his or her job. That's what the Kaiser Foundation tells us after an extensive survey: A typical American kid 2 years old and up is spending 33 hours a week being electronically entertained. How much time on homework? Maybe zero to a ...

LAKE BUENA VISTA -- Bill Bradley urged Florida Democrats yesterday to insist on solutions to the problems of health care, Social Security, gun control, campaign financing and racial discrimination, rather than tinkering around the edges. Bradley, who is challenging Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination, spoke to nearly 2,000 delegates at the close of the party's three-day state convention and hinted that his opponent is too timid in his approach to the country's needs. The former U.S. senator from New Jersey was introduced by Jacksonville Sheriff Nat Glover, who said Bradley would expand the country's current ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 13, 1999 A Magellanic Starfield Credit: Sally Heap (NASA/ GSFC) et al. & the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/ STScI/ NASA) Explanation: Stars of many types and colors are visible in this Hubble Space Telescope vista of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Over 10,000 stars are visible -- the brightest of which are giant stars. Were our Sun 170,000 light-years distant and among these stars, it would hardly ...

12/13/99 By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The Census Bureau unwraps a special millennial edition Monday of its annual look at the USA that's packed with reams of data on how the nation has changed this century. This year's Statistical Abstract of the United States includes 23 pages and 37 tables comparing everything from birth rates to air pollution in the early 1900s and today. It offers a striking portrait of America then and now: Influenza and pneumonia killed 202 out of every 100,000 people in 1900 and 33 in 1997. From 1901 to 1910, 2 million ...

December 13 1999 FROM IAN BRODIE IN WASHINGTON THE highly charged question of whether grandparents have a right to see their grandchildren when a parent objects is coming to a head in America. Next month the Supreme Court will step into what has increasingly become a legal minefield of family hostility and heartbreak. More Americans are turning to the courts for answers as the baby-boom generation reaches grandparenting age and more parents either split up while their children are young or are already single and raising them alone. The nine judges, six of them grandparents, will hear arguments on both ...

MOSCOW -- What is to be done about Russia? That eternal question is being asked again as Russia accelerates the slaughter of its own citizens in Chechnya. The West has been threatening to hurt Russia in recent days if it doesn't temper its raw behaviour in the Caucasus. This is only bluster. The West intends to do nothing about Russia because of Chechnya. This is only partially because the West still stupidly prefers Boris Yeltsin's regime to any of the alternatives. A much bigger reason the West will not act against Russia over Chechnya is that it cannot. Much ...

December 13, 1999 Coalition Worries About Bias Against Asians in Scientist's Arrest By JAMES STERNGOLD LOS ANGELES -- More than a dozen Asian-American organizations are forming an ad hoc coalition to speak out on behalf of the scientist indicted on charges of mishandling nuclear weapons secrets, fearing he has been unfairly singled out because of his Chinese descent. Various Asian-American groups, including the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, the Chinese Physics Association and the Asian American Manufacturers Association, continued discussions today after holding a three-hour telephone conference following the arrest of the scientist, Wen Ho Lee. Many Asian-Americans said ...

The latest Newsweek presidential primary poll showed that support for Forbes in New Hampshire nearly doubled from December 2 to December 3, up from 9% to 17% overnight. Forbes response to the 8 point jump in a single day: We must take advantage of this momentum. I've ordered a new round of TV and radio ads featuring the Union-Leader endorsement and promoting my bold and positive ideas for America to start running in New Hampshire, Iowa and other key states as soon as possible. We are in strong position in Iowa Ð the first major test of strength Ð and ...

3 Dead in Pennsylvania Plane CrashHome - Yahoo! - My Yahoo! - News Alerts - Help Home | Top Stories | Business | Tech | Politics | World | Local | Entertainment | Sports | Science | Health Top Stories HeadlinesAdd to My Yahoo! Monday December 13 4:10 AM ET 3 Dead in Pennsylvania Plane Crash 3 Dead in Pennsylvania Plane Crash GOULDSBORO, Pa. (AP) - A small private jet crashed in the Poconos in northeastern Pennsylvania Sunday afternoon, killing all three people aboard, authorities said.The Westwind 24 aircraft - a 12-seat, twin-engine turbo jet - went down about 4:45 p.m. near Gouldsboro, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathryn Creedy said.The plane departed from King County International Airport in Seattle and was en route ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- President Clinton told a story Saturday, repeated often since the Thanksgiving weekend, of how a small child at his holiday gathering posed him a bold question (even though it's entirely fiction). ``How old are you?'' the child asked. ``Fifty-three,'' Clinton says he replied. The audience at the Florida Democratic Convention laughed when, with a rueful (phony, and hopefully warm, charming and sincere) smile, the president related the child's reaction: ``She said, 'That's a lot.''' He told the girl's story six times during political and fund-raising speeches this past week -- each time getting a chuckle ...

Businesses fight EU's anti-cartel plans By Kevin Brown, Industry Editor, in London European business leaders are mounting a vigorous campaign to thwart European Commission proposals to hand over most competition law enforcement to national authorities. They say the move would fragment the single market and hold up cross-border deals. The commission wants to release resources for big investigations by withdrawing from day-to-day enforcement of articles 81 and 82 of the European Union treaties, which outlaw price-fixing and abuse of market dominance. The commission would give up its exclusive power to grant exemptions from competition law and would hand over enforcement ...

Myth Of U Myth Of U.S.S.R.'s Strong Economy - Media 'Experts' Often Believed Soviets' Crude Propaganda Date :12/10/1999 Author :Brian Mitchell Copyright :Investor’s Business Daily Once upon a time, the Soviet economy was healthy and strong. The Soviet people were well-fed and happy. They drove tanks and tractors, if not cars. They beat the Americans into space. They were catching up to the West in wealth and power. All they needed were just a few more five-year plans and. . Alas, it was just a dream. Or a fairy tale, retold for decades by Soviet propagandists and Western sympathizers, ...

Southern Partisan Magazine: Blow Some My Way (Tobacco Legislation) All rights reserved. Southern Partisan Magazine Corporation, 1999. The Moral Defense of the Confederate Flag:A Special Message for South Carolina Christians Prepared for: The Citizens of the State of South CarolinaDecember 11, 1996 Columbia, South Carolina &#160 &#160 &#160 &#160 &#160 &#160In April, 1863, ninety-eight ministers of the gospel in the American South placed their names on a document entitled The Address to Christians Throughout the World. It was the intention of those ministers-Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and German Reformed-to explain clearly to a watching world their ...