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For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Boeing Co. will move 1,100 engineering jobs in its international space station and space shuttle divisions from Southern California to Texas and Florida in an effort to cut costs and locate workers closer to customers, company officials said Tuesday. The move comes as NASA attempts to curtail an estimated $4 billion in overruns connected with the space station project. The agency also has trimmed space shuttle upgrades to save money. The relocation of Boeing employees -- about 1,000 from a facility in Huntington Beach and another 100 ...

August 1, 2001 More Energy Advisors May Have Conflicts Disclosure: Two officials of a Pasadena consulting firm bought large amounts of Edison International stock just before landing contract with the state.       By JEFFREY L. RABIN and MIGUEL BUSTILLO and RICH CONNELL, TIMES STAFF WRITERS Newly released documents show that two officials of a Pasadena-based energy consulting company bought large amounts of Edison International stock before they were hired by the Davis administration to help rescue the state's beleaguered utilities. Vikram Budhraja, president of the Electric Power Group, and Mark Skowronski, an employee of the firm, bought multiple ...

BEIJING, Aug 1, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) China's top military official urged preparations to reunify the rebel province of Taiwan by force, while vowing to modernize the People's Liberation Army (PLA) into powerful high-tech military force, state press said Wednesday. In a speech marking the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army , Defense Minister Chi Haotian also reaffirmed the "absolute leadership" of the ruling Communist Party (CCP) over China's military forces, the Liberation Army Daily said. "We will definitely not commit ourselves to the abandonment of force and we will never permit any external force ...

To Americas Patriots. Once again the time has come to send out yet another letter of intent. I have read more e-mail and heard more responses on the telephone than I thought I could deal with at one time. Fortunately...the Lord prepared me for the initial shock, and the load that preceded it. I am happy to say..."so far so good". That which many Patriots thought "impossible"...becomes reality...one day at a time. As the Patriot Alliance strengthens each day, so do the hopes of many Patriots that this time, we have a chance to do something positive in 2004. This ...

BEIJING, Aug 1, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) China has formally charged a U.S. academic who is believed to have been involved in the "Tiananmen Papers" revelation about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown with endangering state security, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said on Wednesday. The U.S. embassy, however, could not confirm that the provincial procuratorate in Guangdong had charged Wu Jianmin, who has been detained by Chinese authorities since April 8. Officials of the U.S. consulate in the southern city of Guangzhou last had access to Wu on July 25 and will see him ...

State power regulator holds energy stocks Commission chief William Keese made 20 trades last year Scott Winokur, Chronicle Staff WriterWednesday, August 1, 2001 - One of California's top power regulators held as much as $510,000 of stock last year in companies his agency oversaw, The Chronicle has learned. At least 20 times last year, financial advisers to William Keese, chairman of the California Energy Commission, traded shares of U.S. and European energy companies, including firms that had business before his commission, public records show. Keese never recused himself from deliberations or votes involving the companies. The stock activity, which energy ...

'Totalitarian clock' warns of police state Group develops way to measure level of liberty worldwide "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 ...

The Democratic Party showed Washington its sense of humor by naming Terry McAuliffe to lead the Democratic National Committee. He hasn’t disappointed. He continues making us want to laugh. Start with the concept that the nation's biggest bloviators for "campaign finance reform" picked as their top dog one of the country's most notorious soft money abusers. Consider that the same party whose congressional investigators are breathing heavily over teapot tempests like Karl Rove's tardy stock sales is led by a man who's seemingly always in the shadows of sleazy schemes like the illegal DNC-Teamsters fundraising swap that killed union boss ...

Free Republic has a rich history of activism -- we pull together when the going gets rough, and we’re making headway! On behalf of Jim Robinson, who has so kindly consented to authorize this thread for the Breaking News category, I would like to invite you all to take five minutes from your very busy lives and make a phone call, send a fax or write an e-mail -- or do all three. Pertinent phone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses will be listed together at the bottom of this article post. You can call the White House. Ask for ...

hese days in Manhattan, even the revolutionaries are obsessed with real estate. On Monday, the New Black Panthers for Self-Defense, led by Five-Star Gen. Malik Zulu Shabazz, demonstrated against the opening of Bill Clinton's office in the heart of Harlem. The Panthers' concern is pure New York: They're afraid the former President's presence in the hood will raise the cost of rent. Somebody ought to cancel Shabazz's subscription to New York magazine. William Jefferson Clinton's relocation to Harlem has nothing to do with real estate. It's part of his plan to rule the Democratic Party by becoming the de facto ...

Israel has launched missles at the West Bank office of the militant Muslim group Hamas, killing eight Palestinians, including one alleged terrorist chief and two young bystanders. Israel fired missiles at the offices of the militant Hamas movement today in the Palestinian-ruled town of Nablus, killing eight Palestinians, including a senior Hamas leader and two young bystanders. The targets were hit because they were, "working on the continuing military terrorist activity of Hamas," according to a statement issued by the Israeli Defense Forces. Among those killed were Jamal Mansour, 42, who has been arrested repeatedly by the Israelis and the ...

For Heidi and Neil Howard, giving birth to a terminally ill baby seemed punishment enough. But that was before the Massachusetts Department of Social Services stepped into their lives. The department came knocking at the door to their home in the form of a "home visitor" sent by the hospital when the Howards' first baby girl was born with terminal health problems. According to the Massachusetts News, the "home visitor" was a social worker who found the home in disorder. The kitchen was in the process of being remodeled. Over Heidi's objections and without identifying the true purpose of the ...

Gasoline boycott initiated Blacks asked to avoid Arab-American stations August 1, 2001 BY CECIL ANGEL FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER A civil rights group launched a 30-day boycott Tuesday of all Arab-American-owned gas stations in metro Detroit after several disputes -- some violent -- between black patrons and store employees. The Michigan Chapter of the National Action Network wants Detroiters to shift their patronage to black-owned gas stations as part of the "B-Gas Campaign," said its president, the Rev. Horace Sheffield III. He will invite black and Arab-American leaders from the civil rights and business communities to a meeting within ...

Fewer paroles mean more prisoners '90s growth was 7 times that of state population August 1, 2001 BY DAWSON BELL FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU The number of people behind bars in Michigan grew by 22,481, or 52.5 percent, in the 1990s -- far outstripping the rate of the state's overall population growth of 6.9 percent, according to U.S. Census figures released Tuesday. A total of 65,330 people who called Michigan home in 2000 were using a prison or jail cell for their return address when the decennial headcount was taken. About two-thirds of them were in state prisons. Michigan ...

TEHRAN - Iran successfully tested a powerful anti-tank missile Tuesday and will soon start mass producing the weapon, the Defense Ministry said. The Saeqeh-1 missile has precise targeting ability and is "capable of destroying the most advanced armored equipment in the world," the ministry announced in a statement carried by the official Iranian press agency, IRNA. The ministry did not give the weapon's range. State television Tuesday showed several tests of the missile hitting targets. The report said the government-owned Aerospace Industries Organization would soon begin mass producing the missile.

ASIA, with more than half of the world's population, is an increasingly dangerous place. Big-power competition in this huge area is alive and well – in contrast to Europe, where democracy and the market economy reign, largely pacified west of the eastern Polish border. Asia – which has so little in common with the history, geopolitics, and security practices and institutions of Europe – has many alternative futures. Some of these would be perilous. Across the Taiwan Strait, relations between Taiwan and China may well be on a path of military confrontation in the mid-term. Taiwan has, in recent ...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will unveil legislation this week calling for a base closure round as early as 2003 that, if approved by Congress, could shutter dozens of bases. But his proposal will get a rough ride on Capitol Hill. A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers, among them Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Rep. Ciro D. Rodriguez, D-San Antonio, already are expressing doubt and in some cases outright opposition to the Pentagon plan, to be known as the Efficient Facilities Initiative. The panel deciding which installations would close in previous years was known as the Defense Base Closure and ...

Critics at home and abroad increasingly charge that President Bush is pushing America into "isolationism." The facts don't support that contention. Mr. Bush, while running for the presidency, vowed to make America's national interest his prime directive in foreign policy if elected - and vowed that maintaining America's role as world leader was in our national interest. Despite objections from foreign officials and Democratic Party political leaders, Mr. Bush has not deviated from that reasonable course. A case-by-case examination of the policies now mistakenly cited as evidence of his "isolationism": • Global warming: The Kyoto Protocol was unanimously rejected ...

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - If the Bush administration fails to get its energy bill through Congress, it won't be for a lack of effort on the part of the Teamsters' Union, whose top energy adviser joined House Republicans and the U.S. labor secretary Tuesday in arguing that oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is both a safe and smart idea.Drilling in the 19 million acre ANWR is strongly opposed by environmental groups who argue that it will disturb the ecological balance of the Arctic wilderness area.However, Jerry Hood, Special Assistant for Energy Policy to Teamsters President James P. ...

(This is the first in a series of articles that will profile leaders of the conservative movement)Washington (CNSNews.com) - "Nothing burns me more than listening to people being lied to."While this could be the mantra of many Washington journalists, coming from conservative activist Robert H. Knight, it's usually the preamble to an unpopular stand in the cultural war. Or a criticism of the establishment media, which Knight, 50, regards as the foremost vehicle in promoting what he calls the destructive sexual revolution."I don't just oppose the gay rights movement," he said simply, but with the conviction that makes his opponents ...