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Washington, Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- A $7.5 billion package of aid to farmers was temporarily pulled from Senate consideration while lawmakers struggled over a veto threat by the White House and whether to add price controls on milk to the measure. President George W. Bush's advisers will recommend a veto of any rescue package exceeding $5.5 billion, the Office of Management and Budget said in a letter to the Senate. A squabble over renewing and expanding a dairy program for six Northeast states, opposed by Midwesterners, has stalled action. ``Until these matters can be resolved a little more clearly, we're ...

Welcome to BaseCamp In the world of mountaineering, BaseCamp is where a climb begins. It's where the big tents get set up; where the food and fuel are stored. It's the fallback point in case of bad weather - the place everyone agrees to gather. So it is at FreeRepublic. Thanks to JR, we immigrants from TOS have been blessed with this space to launch our individual summit bids on the Mt. Everest of the world's political websites. If you run into a storm on the Forum, fall back to BaseCamp ! Stock up on nourishment, advice, or asbestos ...

Hilleary's first contest is against Sundquist By Frank Cagle 8/01/01 It appears that Republican Congressman Van Hilleary will do battle with either Phil Bredesen or, possibly, Doug Horne in the governor's race next year. But Hilleary has another contest first, and it isn't the Republican primary. He is going to have to take on incumbent Republican Gov. Don Sundquist. Hilleary's position against an income tax and his refusal to stay silent and "respectful" has made him Public Enemy No. 1 in the governor's office. We have the spectacle of a Republican governor making common cause with the Democratic leadership to ...

Chinese scientists have dismissed a report that the mainland used one of its civilian satellites to spy on US forces. "It is unfair to accuse China of spying because inevitably a satellite image shot from space covers not only China but its neighbouring region," said Professor Liu Jianbo, from the China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Centre in Beijing. "This is a common practice in the international community and I see no violation of any international treaty." According to Professor Liu, the centre was responsible for images from the Ziyuan-1 civilian satellite. The Washington Times yesterday published a report quoting US ...

ven as D.C. cops finally called a halt to their searches of Washington parks and wooded areas — and presumably turned their attention to the city's 1,500 or so unsolved murders — a new lead surfaced in the Chandra Levy investigation. A D.C. hardware clerk reported that Chandra asked him to duplicate a set of keys for her during the first week in May — which would be after April 30, the last time anyone had previously reported seeing her. John Woodfolk, who works at Candey Hardware Inc. in Northwest Washington (near Chandra's health club, where she cancelled her ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Aug. 1 — In her first live, on-camera interview, Chandra Levy's aunt today told ABCNEWS’ Good Morning America she holds out hope the missing intern is still alive, and delivered an emotional plea for help. "I can't fear for the worst," said Linda Zamsky, who recently married into the Levy family and had become a confidante of Chandra. "Someone out there might know something that can bring Chandra home to us," Zamsky said, urging anyone with information to come forward. "If you're out there, please just make a phone ...

Washington, Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush and Representative Charlie Norwood announced agreement on a compromise patients' bill of rights, paving the way for the House to pass the measure tomorrow. The legislation, opposed by insurers such as Cigna Corp. and Aetna Inc., would require health plans to give patients direct access to specialty care and the right to sue insurers over coverage decisions in state and federal courts. Norwood, a Republican from Georgia, joined with House Democrats in favor of a Senate-passed bill that allowed suits in state courts. Bush wanted to limit damages patients could collect ...

Study: 'Family Hour' TV Raunchier By Lynn Elber AP Television Writer Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2001; 1:04 p.m. EDT LOS ANGELES –– Childhood innocence and television are an increasingly uneasy mix, according to a study released Wednesday. Youngsters watching TV during the so-called family hour last season were exposed to bawdier humor and more coarse language and violence than in 1999, according to the Parents Television Council. "I don't think enough parents realize just how awful it's become," L. Brent Bozell III, president of the conservative watchdog group. "Some of the worst programming is now being put on during that ...

Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) is tired of hearing jokes back home from voters who rib him that having sex with an intern must be a congressional perk. So McInnis is going to try to do something about the embarrassment he believes Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.) has caused Congress by his affair with 24-year-old missing intern, Chandra Levy. The five-term member wants House ethics rules to ban lawmakers from having sex with interns. It's an idea many of his colleagues find ridiculous. "I'm not trying to legislate morality," McInnis told The Hill Monday. "I don't think there should be romantic ...

Propaganda for military exercises in strait aimed at rattling island and its allies. China yesterday marked its Army Day with little public fanfare but stepped up publicity about ongoing military exercises in the Taiwan Strait to maintain psychological pressure on Taiwan. No military parades were reported and state media repeated a speech by Defence Minister Chi Haotian on Tuesday in Beijing to stress the army's loyalty to the Communist Party. A Hong Kong newspaper, Wen Wei Po, gave front-page coverage to reports that the PLA would begin its third stage of large-scale war games on Dongshan Island, near Taiwan, to ...

Chandra Levy's aunt thinks California Congressman Gary Condit does hold "one of the keys" into the missing intern's disappearance.   Linda Zamsky told ABC's "Good Morning America, she thinks Condit has information that could help the family find Chandra."We think he has information that can help us locate where Chandra might be," she said. "Maybe where they used to spend their time together, anything. Where they were last together. And tell our investigators and tell our family."She said Chandra was very happy about her relationship with Condit.Zamsky revealed that Levy told her that Condit had planned to leave his wife within five-years to be with ...

The case of the Campbell County Jane Does By Matt Bean, Court TV On any given day, there are more than 91,000 people missing in the United States. Unfortunately, not all come back alive, and some don't come home at all. Some don't want to be found — they skipped town or simply cut off contact with their former life. But the most somber end for a person gone missing is when they're found, weeks, months or years later, and never identified. These John and Jane Does, or "Does," as they are called, number more than 4,000 on any ...

Carey Under 'Psychiatric Care' Associated Press - August 1, 2001 ZUMA Press Mariah Carey is under psychiatric care following last week's hospitalization. (ScreamingMedia, Inc.) NEW YORK (AP) - Mariah Carey is under psychiatric care following last week's hospitalization, which her publicist now says was the result of an ``emotional and physical breakdown.'' The 31-year-old singer, who has canceled all public appearances, including her headlining appearance at Wednesday night's MTV 20th birthday party, checked herself into an undisclosed hospital last week. At the time, her spokeswoman Cindi Berger said Carey was suffering from ``extreme exhaustion.'' But on Wednesday, Berger told The ...

Dogs in hospitals are treating human patients with succor, creature comfort and unconditional love Sunday, Jul. 29, 2001 The 65-year-old patient, hospitalized for quadruple-bypass surgery, had not moved or opened her eyes in days. Her relatives, grim-faced, stood around the bed. "They thought they had lost her," recalls Betty Walsh, a volunteer in the intensive-care unit at the UCLA Medical Center. Then Walsh ushered in Kolya, a 145-lb. shaggy white Great Pyrenees, who climbed right up onto the woman's bed and snuggled against her body. Five minutes passed in silence. Then the woman's hand moved slowly toward the dog. She ...

Wednesday August 1 7:19 PM ET Senate OKs Mexico Truck Safety By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Wednesday to slap strict requirements on Mexican trucks driving into the United States, in a challenge to President Bush (news - web sites). Republicans promised their drive to dilute the veto-threatened standards will resume this fall. The Senate voted 100-0 to end more than a week of GOP delaying tactics, and then by voice vote approved a $60.1 billion transportation bill for next year containing the regulations. The Bush administration has threatened to veto the otherwise popular ...

China has speeded up legal proceedings against American citizen Wu Jianmin to bring him to trial ahead of a visit by US President George W. Bush in October, a human rights group said yesterday. The Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said prosecutors in Guangzhou had started to prepare an indictment against the scholar, who has been detained for more than four months. But it said China would probably time his trial ahead of Mr Bush's visit to increase its political leverage in the human rights debate. It is widely expected that Wu will be sentenced and ...

I posted an article about an hour ago concerning a local news story that in fact a body WAS discovered at Fort Lee today........and the story was taken off this site. Why? Is there in fact a real live cover up going on here? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A computer data analyst hired by Secretary of State Katherine Harris thinks that no files pertaining to her role in the presidential election were erased from computer hard drives in her office. A separate group of computer data analysts hired by Florida news organizations began looking Wednesday at four computers used in Harris' office during the recount to see if they agree. Harris said last week she would open the computers' hard drives up to inspection, but first would have her own expert determine if anything had been erased. That expert made a mirror image of ...

Final Perseverance A Sermon (No. 75) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 23, 1856, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame."—Hebrews 6:4-6. HERE are some spots in Europe ...

Imagine if you will ... living in place where a man will cheat on his wife just because younger interns exist. Imagine a dimension in space where hiding from your constituents is considered to be normal leadership behavior. Imagine a point in time where responsibility for your actions exists, but does not apply. Imagine a destination where little kids eat apple pie and wear T-shirts that say "Honk if you love Gary." Could be anyplace in the USA? Not quite. You see, your next stop is the ... Condit Zone. For Education And Discussion Only. Not For Commercial Use. ...