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JOHN WOODFOLK:Chandra's key-maker? August 1, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - Chandra Levy's mother said yesterday she told her Washington-bound daughter to be "selective" about the men she dated - and warned her: "Don't you become another Monica Lewinsky." Susan Levy and her husband, Robert, said they anguished over their daughter's affair with Rep. Gary Condit - and their own inability to alert her to the potential dangers of getting involved with an older, married man. "I said to Chandra when she left for Washington, don't you become another Monica Lewinsky," Mrs. Levy said, referring to another California intern, whose affair ...

In case you didn't know it – and, judging by the lack of media attention, you probably didn't – the Reform Party had its annual convention last weekend in Nashville. As expected, the party's new standard-bearer, Patrick J. Buchanan, was the main attraction. He gave the crowd of delegates some good, fiery rhetoric and they loved it. While Pat and I don't always agree on policy and issues, I, too, love to hear him speak. However, the Reform Party – like most other third parties – is a fringe political movement. Buchanan's garnering of just 1 percent of the ...

WASHINGTON – What does the Arab world really think about the Mideast conflict? That was the subject of a July 25 op-ed piece in the Washington Post by Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland. The basis of Telhami's piece is a public opinion poll he commissioned through Zogby International in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon. His conclusion in analyzing the survey is that Arab leaders may be underestimating the ferocity of public concern with the escalating Israeli-Arab conflict. "Most Arabs are shamed by their inability ...

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A pair of American businessmen have bought hundreds of U.S. military dog tags from a street vendor in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam, and are currently attempting to match them with the surviving veterans or their families. Rob Stiff and his partner, Jim Gain – who set up a website to help facilitate the return of the tags, said they discovered them last January during a business trip to a city that, during the Vietnam War, was called Hanoi. "The vendor that was selling war paraphernalia got our attention and asked us if we were interested in dog tags," ...

The killing of white Afrikaner farmers in South Africa is intensifying, as members of the ethnic minority attempt to draw international attention to their plight. According to a journalist covering the killings in South Africa, since the Marxist ANC took power in 1994, 1,118 farmers have been murdered in the nation. "Where is President Bush on this issue? Where is Colin Powell? I know this is blacks killing whites, so that is politically correct. The media don't seem to care. And apologists like Andrew Young are saying, 'Killing whites is OK; it's part of reversing colonialism,'" said Henda Wolfardt, ...

WASHINGTON - A New Jersey real-estate mogul said he gave $62,000 under various names to Sen. Robert Torricelli and invited the New Jersey Democrat to invest in his company, it was reported yesterday. It's illegal for an individual to give more than $2,000 to a Senate candidate in an election campaign - or to make a contribution in someone else's name. Richard Kurtz, who heads the Kamson real-estate company, told the Bergen Record newspaper that he was advised by a Torricelli campaign treasurer, Adam Crain, that he was allowed to make contributions in the names of investors in his ...

"Warning: Police states are known to be hazardous to your health." Or, at least, that's what one pro-liberty group believes. And to help freedom lovers the world over keep track of where they stand in regards to the level of liberty that remains, the group has come up with a unique measuring "device" – a "Totalitarian Clock." Based on the creation of The Doomsday Clock, which was developed in 1947 by the publication "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" to track the world's nuclear weapons threat, the Concerned Citizens Opposed to Police States, or CCOPS, has produced its clock to ...

This article presents, analyzes and adds important new information about a recent letter to the editor of the Washington Times concerning the nominee for FBI Director, Robert Mueller. The letter was published on page A-11 of the Times on July 28, 2001 and was written by Patrick Downes of Boston. His letter was entitled “FBI Appointment Needs More Investigation”. While Downes letter is to the editor, it provides valuable information about Mueller’s previous role in DOJ collusion to help facilitate FBI and DOJ corruption in mishandling evidence in important cases. The text of the letter is first reproduced and then ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - An inquiry has found that the downing of an American missionary plane over Peru was caused by an array of problems - and U.S. and Peruvian officials, as well as the plane's pilot, share responsibility, officials said. Peru's air force shot down the Cessna on April 20 after a CIA-operated surveillance plane initially identified it as a possible drug flight. An American missionary, Veronica Bowers, and her 7-month-old daughter were killed and pilot Kevin Donaldson was seriously injured. U.S. drug surveillance flights in Peru and Colombia - the world's main producer of cocaine - have been ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - It's about a missing person, but it's about sex, too. And until police find Chandra Levy, part of the focus will stay on the sex life of Rep. Gary Condit, who had an affair with the 24-year-old former intern before she vanished May 1. It's become yet another tale about the liaisons of a powerful Washington politician, and one that raises age-old questions about why married people cheat. Two other women, a United Airlines flight attendant and a former Condit staffer, have said they, too, had affairs with the California Democrat, who is 53 and has been ...

What do Americans want in a President? A quiet leader or an unrepentant rogue? Tuesday, July 31, 2001 Commentaryby JULIA MALONEWatching Bill Clinton wade into the adoring masses at his Harlem office-warming festivities raises a question.Since he can no longer be president, would he like to be king?Americans supposedly broke away from royalty a couple of centuries ago, but many are glad to enthrone a celebrity who has a touch of glamour and charisma.And Clinton showed he had plenty of each as he pounded on the lectern and electrified the Harlem crowd. Sounding like a candidate on the hustings, he ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In search of a legislative victory before Congress' summer recess, the Bush administration is stepping up its campaign for House approval of an energy bill that would include oil drilling in an Arctic wildlife refuge. Neither side was ready to claim sufficient support to prevail on the refuge issue, the focus of intense lobbying on Capitol Hill by environmentalists, labor unions and the White House. It was expected to come up for a vote sometime Wednesday. President Bush said development of the reserve's oil — put off-limits by President Dwight D. Eisenhower 31 years ago — ...

While college students and their families may get a sinking feeling with every report of rising college costs, research is under way that aims at least to show students and families what colleges do with all that money. The National Association of College and University Business Officers is doing a school survey to devise a formula for calculating the cost of educating undergraduates, from faculty salaries to heating classrooms. The preliminary result, presented earlier this week at NACUBO's annual meeting in New York, suggests that most any school, from low-cost community college to the big-ticket private elite, tends to ...

U.S. Presses GOP on Patients' Bill By ANJETTA McQUEEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials are pressing key House Republicans to scale back the kind of lawsuits allowed under a Senate-passed patients rights bill just enough to allow President Bush to claim victory. The focus was on Rep. Charlie Norwood, the Georgia dentist and pivot man in whatever the House passes on the popular legislation. Democrats hope he will deliver enough fellow Republicans in the House to pass the Senate version. The White House hopes he will help pass a version closer to Bush's liking. House ...

House panel hears traffic-camera debate The Washington Times www.washtimes.com House panel hears traffic-camera debate Daniel F. Drummond THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published 8/1/01      A House transportation panel yesterday took conflicting testimony hailing red-light cameras as life-saving devices that curb aggressive driving and as revenue-generating machines that violate drivers' privacy and right to due process.      "Issues such as privacy and legal implications are intertwined with red-light cameras," said Rep. Tom Petri, Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on highways and transit.      Rep. Bob Barr warned that red-light cameras -- which have been used in the District ...

HONG KONG (AP) - The Chinese military will hold its "largest, most advanced" war games ever on an island opposite Taiwan soon, the China-backed newspaper Wen Wei Po reported Wednesday. The pro-Beijing newspaper said tens of thousands of troops had been training during the past three months on Dongshan island, off the southeastern coastal province of Fujian. Top military leaders would preside over comprehensive joint military exercises there "in the near future," it said. "The military drill will be the Peoples' Liberation Army's largest and the most technologically advanced exercise," the report said. In late July, China's air force ...

DISGUISED BY FRIENDLY-SOUNDING MESSAGES, the infiltration spreads.  One by one, every accessed communication terminal is turned into a weapon.  To those who recognize the code, these infected messages pose a clear and present danger.  Their programmers' aim and target is to turn the power of all these terminals against the White House, to overwhelm and shut it down. Is this the "Code Red" worm that computer experts warn is flooding Internet emails, programmed to inundate the White House website again this week? Yes, but even more so it is the Democratic Party, now bent on a rule-or-ruin strategy, a ...

In an interview with the Wash Post, ex-NJ guv Christie t Whitman slammed Schundler on guns and abortion - and she still hasn't endorsed him. Showing again she's a Rockefeller in drag (he refused to support Goldwater and other conservative Republicans, you'll recall). Actually, Rocky with a dress would be a sexpot next to this ugly snobbish broad. By dissing him, she's probably helping him with the blue-collar types he needs - and who can't stand her snootyness (she won reelection by a split hair). Keep it up, Whitman - - you'll bury your own political prospects deeper, while helping ...