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author/source:IRIN (UN) published:Sat 8-Sep-2001 posted on this site:Sat 8-Sep-2001 Article Type : News They now actually have to look ahead and say : "you have agreed that this is what you are going to do, how is this going to happen'?" An historic agreement between the Zimbabwean and British governments over land reform has created the ideal conditions for southern African leaders meeting in Harare on Monday to hammer out the "fine print", analysts told IRIN. The agreement announced in the early hours of Friday in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, binds the Zimbabwean government to stopping violence and restoring the rule ...

<p>A former Pleasant Grove fire chief was sentenced Friday to five years in prison followed by 15 years on probation.</p> <p>Jack Burns , 39, was convicted June 6 of arson and burning to defraud an insurance company for a 1998 blaze that destroyed his home.</p>

WorldNetDaily: Moving forward in faith This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?24394 Saturday, September 8, 2001 Moving forward in faith By Alan Keyes &copy; 2000 WorldNetDaily.com--> ©&nbsp;2001&nbsp;WorldNetDaily.com This week a California state appeals court unanimously ruled that California's constitutional ban on racial preferences in government hiring, contracting and education means what it says. Accordingly, in the words of Pacific Legal Foundation, the court "invalidated key statutes that contain preferences in the form of goals, timetables and other 'schemes' that treat people differently on the basis of race or ...

Scores of women preach every Sunday from pulpits in New York, but Carol Perry is highly unusual: She is a Catholic nun, and she preaches at a Protestant church. The church is Marble Collegiate, the historic Fifth Ave. Reformed Church where she also is the resident Bible scholar. She has not heard from the Vatican, which doesn't allow women — nuns or not — to deliver homilies. But if she worries about what the Pope might think, she disguises it well."I think I'm the only nun in the country employed by a Protestant church, and it would take a ...

author/source:Daily Telegraph (UK) published:Sat 8-Sep-2001 posted on this site:Sat 8-Sep-2001 Article Type : News The signs are that he has far more to lose than gain by sticking to the agreement By David Blair Would President Robert Mugabe's ruthless struggle for political survival be helped or hindered by keeping to the Abuja agreement? On that crucial question hangs the future of the Commonwealth's alleged "breakthrough". If the deal threatens Mr Mugabe's overriding goal of winning the presidential election that must come by April 1 next year, he will not hesitate to toss it aside. The signs are that he has far ...

Perhaps Secretary of State Colin Powell's decision to pull the American delegation out of the so-called U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, will be just a footnote in history. But we can at least hope that it may be a turning point toward a future time when "racism" will no longer be a magic word used to gain money or political concessions. Within the United States, Jesse Jackson and others have repeatedly scared millions of dollars out of big corporations, just by threatening to use the magic word "racism." Even the police have sometimes turned a blind ...

Here we are. Two days before local primary elections, in which mayor, city council, school board and a myriad of other local candidates and issues will be counting on your vote. Are you ready? Newspapers across the country will be using holes just like this one on their editorial pages through Tuesday to remind you of your civic duty, and how important it is to participate in the process. They have been providing a great deal of information on the assorted candidates and issues in an attempt to prepare you for this responsibility. Have you done your part? If ...

Oh, the humility. It wasn't exactly the Hindenburg disaster, but Kansas City had its own brush with inflatable infamy Friday night when the MetLife blimp tore loose from its moorings in a wind gust at the Downtown Airport and drifted away. And Snoopy, adorning 4,400 pounds of floating MetLife advertisement, had no interest in coming home. The blimp was in town to shoot aerials for Sunday afternoon's Chiefs/Raiders contest. It floated two hours and a respectable 50 to 60 miles before coming to rest on a pickup truck just northeast of Chillicothe, Mo., the Federal Aviation Administration reported. Dustin Gooding ...

It is not unusual for Washington's elite to jockey for the best seats in the house at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Butin an unusually bitter cultural contretemps, Clinton loyalists and the Bush White House are fighting over who should occupy seats on the center's socially and politically influential board of trustees.   A seat on the board of the Kennedy Center is one of the most prized plums a president can bestow, and former President Bill Clinton selected five lucky men for the honor as he was preparing to leave the White House. They expected ...

• Rachel Hinkley, the Johnston girl put on a flight to Lansing, Mich., rather than to Rhode Island, is glad to be home. JOHNSTON - The first inkling Rachel Hinkley had that something was wrong was when passengers were told to get ready for landing, just an hour into what she thought was a two-hour flight to T.F. Green Airport. Once the plane was on the ground, Rachel was met by an airline agent and taken to a room to meet her parents. "This isn't right," she thought. She saw only strangers. Rachel, 16, of Central Avenue, was flying on ...

The wounds left by segregation on the souls of black folk lie nearer the surface than those that slavery inflicted on blacks long dead. The U.S. government's dereliction of duty during the Jim Crow era stands clear and shameful. An argument that the United States ought to pay reparations to blacks should leave slavery out of the picture and deal with more recent wrongs. But reparations advocates are too enthralled with Afrocentrism to trust living blacks' actual memories. After the end of the Civil War in 1865, while the U.S. Army still occupied the Southern states, the federal government tried ...

SKOPJE, Sept 7 (AFP) - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski on Saturday rejected Western calls for an international force to remain in the troubled Balkan state once NATO leaves early next month. "It is not in the interests of NATO or Macedonians to have another Kosovo or Bosnia, another protectorate," Trajkovski said during a one-hour interview with state radio here. "It was different here because the Macedonian army was not involved in ethnic cleansing. They did not start a war, so there is no need to have NATO to preserve an artificial peace," he said. "Nato will finish its mission ...

Balkan Express by Nebojsa Malic Antiwar.com September 6, 2001 EPIPHANIES Macedonia's Tragedy Masquerading as Farce Nine months ago, Macedonia was known for being the only part of the former socialist Yugoslav federation to gain independence without a war; for having a bitter dispute with Greece over its name, and with Bulgaria over its ethnic identity; for sheltering hundreds of thousands of Albanians who left Kosovo during NATO's 1999 air assault, and serving as a logistical base for NATO's occupation of southern Balkans; and for its superb food and textile products. Now its name stands for a tragedy masquerading as farce. ...

author/source:Times (UK) published:Sat 8-Sep-2001 posted on this site:Sat 8-Sep-2001 Article Type : News While Sule Lamido, the Nigerian Foreign Minister, was due to arrive in Harare last night with the document drawn up in Abuja for Mr Mugabe's signature, the dictator's officials said that he was out of the country From Jan Raath in Harare President Mugabe kept the world guessing yesterday over his assent to the agreement reached in Nigeria to end the land dispute. While Sule Lamido, the Nigerian Foreign Minister, was due to arrive in Harare last night with the document drawn up in Abuja for Mr Mugabe's ...

Colorado investigators are seeking the identity of an America Online subscriber who posted a message on an Internet bulletin board saying he witnessed the 1996 slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. Boulder Police Detective Thomas Trujillo asked Loudoun County investigators to file a search warrant in Loudoun Circuit Court asking AOL for the subscriber's name, other screen names, e-mail files, buddy lists and aliases. [Rest of article available on the WashPost site.]

Bush Plus Illegal Aliens Equals One-Term The Bush administration is considering is granting legal residency to three million undocumented Mexican immigrants. Undocumented Mexican immigrants? Isn't that supposed to be Illegal Aliens? It's time that the Great Melting Pot stopped melting, at least with illegal aliens. I don’t know if President Bush is trying to gain the vote of the Mexican-American population or not, but this will certainly cause him to lose the vote of every other naturalized citizen of this country. There are many legal immigrants in this country who are working and trying to become citizens of the United ...

I just discovered that Hillary's Congresswoman is Sue Kelly, a Republican. She won 60.9% of the vote in 2000. She came in when the GOP took over the House. The district is estimated to be 63% Republican. She got the Conservative Party of New York's endorsement. She is a lifetime ACU 60, making her one of the 10 most conservative members of NY's delegation, including being opposed to partial birth abortion, supporting product liability limits, and opposing OSHA-set ergonomic standards. And though she won 56.7% of the 2-party vote statewide, Hillary only got 51.4% of the Westchester County vote.

Wednesday September 5, 2:01 pm Eastern Time US shift clears Iraq to buy French phone equipment By Irwin Arieff UNITED NATIONS, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The United Nations has cleared a long-stalled purchase by Iraq of nearly $75 million of telecommunications equipment from French company Alcatel after the United States lifted its objection to the sale, U.N. officials and diplomats said on Wednesday. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Washington had blocked the sale for more than two years in the U.N. Security Council's committee on Iraqi sanctions, fearing the equipment would be used to bolster Baghdad's military capabilities. Washington relented and lifted its ``hold'' ...

icking off a package of reports that would take up more than a third of its half-hour newscast, the Spanish-language television network Telemundo began its coverage of President Vicente Fox's state visit to Washington on Thursday with a correspondent's giddy account of attending the formal White House dinner on Wednesday night. "How beautiful to hear the sound of Spanish being spoken in the center of world power," gushed the principal correspondent and anchor, Pedro Sevcec. Although other reports by Spanish-language media in the United States were considerably less effusive, Mr. Fox's visit provoked an outpouring of Hispanic pride. The Mexican ...

Woman dies after getting run over by friend after bee sting, fall from horse Web posted Saturday, Sept.&nbsp;&nbsp;8, 2001 MIDDLEBURG, Va. (AP) - A woman who was horseback riding near Middleburg was killed yesterday after she was stung by a bee, fell off her horse and was run over by a neighbor who was driving to her aid, Loudoun County authorities said. Janice L. Ruetz, 52, of Purcellville, who was highly allergic to bee stings, was riding with a group near shortly before noon when she was stung, officials said. Disoriented, she fell from her horse onto a private road ...