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Parents Allegedly Kidnap Sisters After Visit Girls Taken At Gunpoint GRANTS PASS, Ore., 12:47 p.m. PDT August 2, 2001 -- Oregon State Police are searching for three girls, allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint by their parents. Police: Parents Are Armed, Dangerous Brian and Ruth Christine lost custody of their daughters, ages 3, 4 and 6, for alleged neglect. Police say that the girls had to be hospitalized for dehydration. One girl reportedly had a head injury after her father allegedly hit her. The couple denies the charges. The Christines were on a state-supervised visit with their children on Wednesday at the ...

Justices of the California Court of Appeal may have to sort out an Alameda County Superior Court judge's groundbreaking ruling that gives sweeping libel protection to Internet users. Last week, Judge James Richman dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by two physicians who claimed that a woman re-posted a libelous article that accused one of the doctors of stalking a Canadian journalist. "[A]s a user of an interactive computer service, that is, a newsgroup, [the defendant] is not the publisher or speaker of [the] piece. Thus, she cannot be civilly liable for posting it on the Internet. She is ...

Bosnian Muslim officers arrested The Bosnian authorities say three high-ranking former Muslim soldiers have been detained on suspected war crimes charges. They said the three would be handed over to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Two of the three were named as former generals Mehmed Alagic and Enver Hadzihasanovic. Tribunal officials said several sealed indictments had been sent to the Bosnian Government ordering the arrest of war crimes suspects . Correspondents say the two generals would be the highest-ranking Bosnian Muslims to be transferred to The Hague.

Who Killed Bonny Bakley? Even Without Media Glare, Slaying of Blake's Wife Remains a Mystery Aug. 2 — Before a Washington intern's disappearance became a daily media feeding frenzy, the nation was asking this question: Who killed Bonny Bakley? Three months have passed since the wife of actor Robert Blake was gunned down near a Studio City Italian restaurant, and Los Angeles police still have not been able to make an arrest. The mystery surrounding Bakley's slaying has faded from the media spotlight. Reporters who were once staking out Blake's home near Studio City, are now stationed approximately 300 miles ...

Bosnian Muslim officers arrested The Bosnian authorities say three high-ranking former Muslim soldiers have been detained on suspected war crimes charges. They said the three would be handed over to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Two of the three were named as former generals Mehmed Alagic and Enver Hadzihasanovic. Tribunal officials said several sealed indictments had been sent to the Bosnian Government ordering the arrest of war crimes suspects . Correspondents say the two generals would be the highest-ranking Bosnian Muslims to be transferred to The Hague.

US v. YIRKOVSKY, No 00-3442 (8th Cir. August 01, 2001) Summary: 15-year sentence for a felon in possession of one round of ammunition, as repeat offender under the Armed Career Criminal Act, does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th Amendment. Decision Dane Allen Yirkovsky ("Yirkovsky") appeals from a final judgment entered in the United States District Court 1 for the Northern District of Iowa sentencing him to 180 months in prison after he plead guilty pursuant to a written plea agreement to possession of ammunition as a felon in violation of the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), ...

The Israeli rabbi Munir Lao haled the killing of Palestinian children and youth by the Israeli settlers. He explained that the Jewish ethnic group supports and backs the killing of the Palestinians. Earlier the Israeli rabbi Ovadia Youssef described the Arabs as snakes that should be killed. He said:" The Palestinians should be killed especially in Jerusalem because they are like ants and when the Masiah (Christ ) comes he will disperse the Arabs." Meantime, the Israeli forces broke into vast areas in the surrounding of Ramullah city while the Israeli tanks were striking positions for the Palestinian security ...

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Bush administration says U.S. troops would participate in ceasefire operations in Macedonia By Barry Schweid, Associated Press, 8/2/2001 15:46 WASHINGTON (AP) American troops would participate in a NATO force that collects weapons from ethnic Albanian fighters in Macedonia if there is a settlement of their conflict with the Macedonian government, the Bush administration said Thursday. ''We have a plan that will be implemented once there is final agreement among the parties on a political settlement,'' State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. Arms collection from ethnic Albanian extremists, who have been fighting government forces of the Balkan country, is likely to ...

Our daily post of &quot;word for the day&quot; in order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the &quot;word of the day&quot; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review thread link will be posted for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... importune (im-pawr-TOON, im-pawr-TYOON, im-PAWR-chuhn) tr.verb; intr.verb; adjective; adverbimportunateimportunely 1. To beset with insistent or repeated requests; entreat pressingly.2. Archaic. To ask for urgently or repeatedly. 3. To annoy; vex.4. To plead or urge ...

Senate Budget Committee spars over Social Security funding troubles, Bush tax cut By Leigh Strope, Associated Press, 8/2/2001 16:05 WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democrats are blaming Social Security's funding problems on President Bush's tax cut, arguing that it has wiped out money that could have been spent to reform or help salvage the system. ''Dollars that could have been used to ease the transition costs of a Social Security reform plan were instead spent on a significant tax cut that, unfortunately in my judgment, benefits the wealthiest among us,'' Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said at a hearing Thursday. That ...

House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt accused President Bush on Thursday of a ``go-it-alone'' approach to world affairs that has worried allies, presented Russia with unwise ``ultimatums'' and ultimately may imperil U.S. security. Speaking to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Gephardt outlined a strategic framework for dealing with Russia and emphasized the need for an engaged and collaborative approach to international problems with allies and other countries. Gephardt, who recently returned from a trip to Europe and Russia, said he would work to build a bipartisan majority in the U.S. Congress that would block deployment of a missile defense system ...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Juan Hernandez, the director of the Mexican government's Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad, hugs Sister Angela Erevia, one of 50 people who gathered Tuesday in Omaha to discuss issues relating to the growing Hispanic population in the Midwest. OMAHA - Mexican meatpacking workers could be among the beneficiaries of "a new positive attitude in Nebraska" toward its growing Hispanic population, a key member of President Vicente Fox's administration said Tuesday. "Nebraskans are discovering the new face of Nebraska," Juan Hernandez said. Census figures demonstrate rapid Latino growth, most of it Mexican, he said, with many of ...

Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni called for holding an emergency meeting by the UNESCO world heritage committee to discuss Israeli measures aiming at Juadizing Islamic heritage of the Palestinian people. Gaballah Ali Gaballah, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that there would be a call for holding a meeting on the level of the Arab countries mainly Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Palestine to discuss stances according to directives of the recent meeting of heads of Arab antiquities authorities in the Arab League last April. He added that the meeting would focus on extending a memo in the ...

Contrary to prevailing wisdom on Capitol Hill, there appears to be little data to prove that Mexican trucks are far more dangerous than their American counterparts, experts say.NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, Aug. 1 About 1,500 miles from this border city, on Capitol Hill in Washington, the prevailing wisdom is that unsafe, badly maintained Mexican trucks are about to invade the United States unless Congress maintains a ban that has kept Mexican truckers from traveling more than a few miles inside the border. But experts on both sides of the border say opponents of Mexican trucking, including the Teamsters union, have marshaled ...

CALCUTTA, INDIA I grew up in northern India in a rather comfortable, middle-class home during the 1960s and '70s. In our extended family, we girls had considerable freedom on the big issues - education, career choice, the right to choose our life partners. But in the background, discrimination against girls always lurked, especially in our grandparents' home in New Delhi, where we went for summer holidays. Brothers, male cousins, and uncles were always given pride of place at the dinner table, in decisionmaking, and in the running of the house. Girls ate after the boys, they got the second ...

An accidental explosion in a German physics lab has led to the identification of a superpowerful explosive. The substance - an exotic form of silicon - releases seven times as much energy as TNT, and explodes a million times faster. "This might be the strongest explosive ever discovered," says Dmitri Kovalev, the physicist who runs the laboratory at the Technical University of Munich in Garching. Kovalev and his team were studying the optical properties of porous silicon, a sponge-like material. The group had cooled the silicon in a vacuum to the temperature of liquid nitrogen, when suddenly a leak in ...

The following is a commentary on this week's Torah portion, Devarim: "Go up and take possession of the land....Do not fear." In this week's parsha, Devarim, we find Moses reviewing the journeys of the Jewish people before entering the land of Israel, giving praise to the land and recalling the sins of the spies, who despised the land of Israel and did not want to enter it because of their lack of faith. How beautiful is the land, and what a great merit it is being here, for one must remember that even Moses did not merit to enter. And ...

I would like to test the responce of freepers....if there was a radio network that was already up and running with a great lineup of conservative hosts available to be picked up in every corner of the US using some local AM/FM stations,two satillites,two 500,000 watt shortwave transmitters and a state of the art internet connection....would you consider this to be a good investment? Currently the plans of the network are to expand its reach with the added investment dollars for the sole purpose of helping America protect its Freedom with the information that you don't get from the so ...

With four aldermen switching votes, the Milwaukee Common Council reversed itself Thursday and approved a second contract agreement with the city's largest union, one that extends health benefits to all unmarried couples, not just same-sex ones. The 10-7 vote to approve the contract came after contentious debate over public policy, private morality and financial reality. Supporters of the new two-year agreement with District Council 48 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said the cost of extending the benefits - $220,000 a year, if applied to all city workers - was minimal when compared to the potential ...