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31-Jul-2001 -- EWTN News Brief BRITISH CATHOLIC LAWMAKER LOSES JOB BECAUSE OF PRO-LIFE VIEWS LONDON, (CWNews.com) - A Conservative member of Britain's Parliament (MP) has been forced to withdraw his nomination to a key committee because Labor MPs thought he would try to impose his Catholic pro-life views on their work.Edward Leigh was forced to withdraw his nomination as chairman of the House of Commons select committee on international development. The nomination had already been agreed upon by members of both parties and would normally have been routinely approved. During the hearing he was questioned on whether he would ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday approved $113 billion for space, science, environmental and other programs after squashing an effort to curb funds for international space station Alpha. Voting 336-89 shortly after midnight, the Republican-led House approved the spending bill for next fiscal year starting on October 1. The Democratic-led Senate has not yet taken up its version of the bill. The House, on a voice vote, rejected an amendment to cap U.S. spending for Alpha. The space station faces $4 billion in overruns in the next five years and has cost tens of billions more than ...

  Gail Sheehy's Olympian Myth Metaphor By Peter Carlson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 31, 2001; Page C01   One of the pleasures of reading Gail Sheehy is sitting back and watching while she starts babbling pseudo-intellectual gibberish like some junior college professor who's been smoking too much wacky weed. Sheehy, the author of "Passages" and a pioneer in the dubious art of pop psychoanalysis of political celebrities, is back. In the August issue of Vanity Fair, Sheehy profiles Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and although she doesn't reveal anything new about the former first lady, she does churn ...

Skopje, - The World Macedonian Congress calls upon the ethnic Albanian paramilitary units to stop invading Macedonian villages and to stop terrorizing Macedonian population on the entire territory of Macedonia. The World Macedonian Congress gives a deadline to ethnic Albanian militants – August 5th midnight, to move out of Macedonia, says the announcement released by this non-government organization. The World Macedonian Congress urges the ethnic Albanian paramilitary units to remove the land mines that have been planted in civilian areas and on public roads, to withdraw from Macedonia or to lay down their weapons to the nearest police station or ...

Anti-Abortion Message Lining Northern Highways 'Missionaries Of The Pre-Born' Plan More Displays This Week 8:36 a.m. CDT July 30, 2001 -- An anti-abortion message flooded the streets of the Wisconsin Dells Sunday. More than 100 members of "Missionaries of the Pre-Born" lined the intersection of highways 12 and 13 with graphic pictures of allegedly aborted babies as part of their state-wide anti-abortion campaign targeting Planned Parenthood. "Planned Parenthood murders 200,000 pre-born babies every year," Pastor Matthey Trewhella of Missionaries of the Preborn said. "Most people think they're just some nice organization, but they're not. They're full of brutality. Planned ...

European rights court backs Turkey over Islamist party ban STRASBOURG, July 31 (AFP) - The European Court of Human Rights backed the Turkish government Tuesday, ruling that its decision to outlaw the Islamist Welfare Party did not violate human rights. It was a rare victory for Ankara, which has been condemned by the human rights court at least 11 times since 1998 for violations of freedoms of expressions. By a vote of four to three, the European judges ruled that the January 1998 ban on the Welfare or Refah party of former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan could reasonably be considered ...

WASHINGTON - A letter that US Representative Barney Frank wrote 12 years ago concerning visits by Soviet labor leaders ended up in a Federal Bureau of Investigation file and was recently released by the government - puzzling and angering the Massachusetts congressman. How that letter - Frank's response to a New York attorney's concerns about prohibiting entry of labor officials from unions in totalitarian countries - got into the file is unclear. But Frank said that it may be an indication that the FBI had infiltrated private meetings involving individuals who were concerned about bringing Russian trade union representatives into ...

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2 Party at Howlin's ALL PREVIOUS THREADS PROJECT DAFFODIL-Updated Summary 7-25-01 In light of the Daffodil Principle where individual efforts over time add up to a mammoth contribution, we use this lesson as we seek to promote conservatism, the Republican Party and the administration of George Bush. Here is the link to the article if you are interested. THE DAFFODIL PRINCIPLE List of suggested projects: Volunteer/Get Involved in Republican Party, in individual campaigns Join GOP groups-Republican Business Women's Assn, become ...

9 Eyewitness News has learned that FBI Investigators now have a new lead this morning. They are scheduled to question a Washington, DC hardware store employee who says he made keys for the missing intern after April 30th. Up until now, the last known sighting of Chandra was April 30th at a health club across the street from the hardware store. Stay tuned to 9 Eyewitness News for coverage of this new development at Noon, 5:00pm, 6:00pm and 11:00pm.

Urgent Update/Announcement:Klamath Basin Crisis PetitionIn three weeks the Klamath Petiton has gathered almost 21,000 signatures. This is an outstanding achievement and the people of the Klamath Basin and all of us who are fighting with them to reverse the tyranny of denying farmers their irrigation water rights are grateful beyond measure to all who have signed. We are seeking to reach goals of 100,000 signatures and then 1,000,000 signatures. These numbers, if reached fairly quickly (by August 21 for the 100K and by the end of the year 2001 for the 1 million) will cause governmental officials, who should be ...

Powell sees China in new light CANBERRA: China has graduated from "strategic competitor" of the United States to a friend who needs tough love, if US Secretary of State Colin Powell's remarks after a visit to Beijing are anything to go by. His confirmation to reporters on Sunday that he had dropped the phrase "strategic competitor," adopted by President George W. Bush during his election campaign, put into words a shift in the US view of the communist giant, analysts said yesterday. "The term did reflect the ideological conviction of Bush that (Bill) Clinton had cosied up unrealistically with ...

Bill Clinton is said to be stashing a whopping $1 million in a checking account - and financial managers say he is making a costly mistake. The former president could pocket about $140 daily all year - tax-free - by simply moving the cash from the checking account into municipal bonds. Clinton could also invest it in 10-year U.S. Treasury notes, which yield about 5.08 percent. Just keeping it in a high-balance checking account also can provide a nice profit. A Citigold checking account (minimum balance, $100,000) pays 3.39 percent, or about $33,900 a year. Clinton's checking balance came ...

WASHINGTON - One of the ineluctable truths about the elected class is that American foreign and domestic policy eventually intersect. In the Richard Nixon years, for example, the tools of espionage abroad were turned to targets at home. In the George W. Bush administration, the impulse to forge ahead alone on domestic affairs is being applied to foreign affairs. That's why the very claims that have been echoing from Capitol Hill for the past several months - The president isn't interested in consulting, just in doing things his way - now are being heard in foreign capitals. That's why the ...

U.S. House backs Bush's possible boycott of racism conference By Reuters WASHINGTON - Backing President George W. Bush's possible boycott of a U.N. conference on race, the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday urged the conference to avoid disruptive debates on whether Zionism amounts to racism. The Republican-led House voted 408-3 for a non-binding resolution calling the United Nations conference on racism and xenophobia "a unique opportunity to address global discrimination." But the resolution said efforts by some countries to use the conference to "resuscitate the divisive and discredited notion equating Zionism with racism ... would undermine the goals and ...

Warner Rushes Ad Blitz Costly Effort Timed To Set the Agenda Summary: Democratic candidate Warner to launch TV, radio, mail advertising campaign this week, will continue through November 6... $750K a week, $7 million total... will have to use some of his own fortune... Warner wants to "set the agenda", worries about Republican labeling, questioning of his core principles... Republicans expected this to happen, ponder when and how to respond... analysts wonder if voters are paying attention right now... polls are still close... Earley supporters expect to win with grassroots effort... first ad will feature education, attack GOP failure to ...

Harare - A statement by a top official of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF that the ruling party would go to war if it loses a presidential election next year has sparked outrage among civic groups and political analysts. Didymus Mutasa, Zanu-PF secretary for external affairs and a former senior minister for political affairs and speaker of parliament, told the high court on Monday that the party would go to war if it lost the presidential election. Mutasa was giving evidence in a case in which Zanu-PF's victory in Makoni East constituency in parliamentary elections in June last year is ...

ARLES, France -- The famous Maison Jaune, at Arles, which Vincent Van Gogh rented, furnished, painted and filled with his pictures to receive his friend Paul Gauguin in the autumn of 1888, no longer exists. It disappeared in an Allied bombardment in 1945, and where it stood there now functions a small hotel called Terminus Van Gogh. Not long ago, the landlady showed me a photograph of the ruin left by the bomb's impact, an event of which she was a witness. The surroundings, however, have not changed much. It is easy to recognize the next-door house, which appears in ...

US House: UN videotape must be given to Israel By an overwhelming majority, the House of Representatives voted overnight to call on the United Nations to hand Israel the videotape filmed on the Lebanon border just hours after three IDF soldiers were kidnapped last October. The House voted 411 to 4 that the "U.N. should provide Israel evidence for probe of Hizbullah abduction of 3 Israeli soldiers." The videotape filmed by the UN reportedly shows the faces of Hizbullah members involved in the kidnapping. So far the UN has been unwilling to hand Israel an unedited version of the tape. ...

Mild weather means that California is escaping blackouts, but it also means that the state is amassing power-trading losses that are adding to the cost of an energy mess now in its 15th month. Internal documents show that so far in July, California has resold the equivalent of 8% of the power it bought under short-term and long-term contracts that were designed to reduce the state's reliance on the volatile and costly spot market. The problem is, the state has had a surfeit of power, and it has been selling the juice into the market at a fraction of the ...

A Bulgarian general and a marshall fired 37 bullets at each other without hitting once during a duel. The incident happened in 1971, but has only just been made public after the opening of the Communist archives in the country. It is reported both soldiers needed glasses and forget to take them to the duel. The two men eventually reconciled their differences after failing to hit each other. The Bulgarian Army soldiers, who have not been named, engaged in a gentlemen's duel after the general called the marshall a "socialist", reports www.lelezard.com. After walking 25 steps from each other, they ...