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'Now I've come home at last,' exalted the world's most boisterous hobo, arriving at his own party on Harlem's Adam Clayton Plaza, named after a famous militant black politician. Bill Clinton may be from a poor white family in rural Arkansas, and many of his guests this warm summer evening were political wheeler-dealers from deep inside the Washington Beltway, but the crowd that turned out to give Clinton a tumultuous welcome the day he became a citizen of Harlem was black and proud of him. One man even painted dreadlocks on the smiling photo- portrait - one of hundreds - ...

GENVAL, Belgium, Sept 8 (Reuters) - France said on Saturday that NATO should remain in charge of a military force to protect foreign observers in Macedonia after alliance forces have completed collecting ethnic Albanian rebel weapons. Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine said it was clear that an international security force would be necessary after NATO's current mission ends on September 26. He rejected a suggestion by EU Macedonia envoy Francois Leotard for the European Union to take charge. "If the new European security and defence arrangements were organised enough for this mission, it would be a good idea. But because ...

TETOVO, Macedonia (AP) - The police chief in Macedonia's main ethnic Albanian city predicted new clashes Saturday unless authorities can rein in Macedonian paramilitary gangs that may have been joined by militias from neighboring Serbia. Saip Bilali's report of a Serb presence has not been independently confirmed. But if true, it would add another worrisome element threatening the fragile calm as Macedonia marked the 10th anniversary of its independence from Yugoslavia. ``The danger is permanent,'' said Bilali, who is ethnic Albanian. He said there was ``verified information'' that paramilitary militiamen from Serbia have been seen near the western Macedonian town ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (news - web sites) (Reuters) - The foreign minister of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban was quoted Sunday saying the hard-line movement might consider swapping eight detained foreign aid workers for an Islamic militant jailed in the United States. But Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, quoted in the Taliban's Shariat Daily, stressed that the trial of the aid workers, accused of promoting Christianity, would first have to be completed. ``The authorities and responsibles of the Islamic Emirate (of Afghanistan) will deliberate about such a request, and after consideration and research, a decision will be taken,'' he was quoted as saying. ``But above ...

Modern air travel offers all the joys of prison, plus the chance to crash - as passengers packed into an Air Transat charter flight discovered recently when their aircraft ran out of fuel over the Atlantic and barely managed to reach the Azores. When I was young, you bought a moderately priced ticket from your nice neighbourhood travel agent, dressed up in your best clothes, and leisurely boarded a flight on which "economy" seats were as wide and well-spaced as those in today's business class. Pretty, young stewardesses smiled and waited on you. These days, air travel has become Sovietized: ...

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WASHINGTON – Showing greater flexibility on immigration issues, Congress is ready to approve a measure giving more time, until spring 2002, for some undocumented immigrants to secure resident status. Based on assurances from GOP leaders, the House is expected next week to adopt a measure passed by the Senate late Thursday that extends for one year the period for immigrants to apply for visas without leaving the United States. The Bush administration and senators of both parties pushed for the extension. They wanted to demonstrate during the visit of Mexican President Vicente Fox that Congress is ready to consider major ...

Jefferson City News Tribune, SALEM, Mo. (AP) -- A highway north of Salem remained closed Friday as a federal agents maintained an "enforcement operation" outside a home. Saturday, September 8, 2001 > >Law enforcement officials prevent a motorist from traveling down a section of Highway 68 just north of Salem on Friday. Click on photo to view greater detail. >Federal, state authorities mass near Salem in standoff > SALEM, Mo. (AP) -- A highway north of Salem remained closed Friday as federal agents maintained an "enforcement operation" outside a home. > >Authorities have not said why agents from the Bureau ...

Good Morning!! Free the Senate! No Senate, no justice, no peace. TROPICAL WEATHER UPDATE ERIN NOW A CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE COULD BECOME CATEGORY THREE BEFORE STRIKING BURMUDA H-2 ERIN ADVISORY #28 FIX TIME = 5 AM AT (0900Z) FIX LOCATION = 31.1N 61.9W (185 miles or 300 km ESE Burmuda) FIX METHOD = Aircraft VECTOR = NW (315) @ 15 (24 km/hr) PRESSURE = 982 mbar (29.00" Hg) WINDS = 105 (165 km/hr) Hurricane Warnings Issued - Burmuda Some strengthening likely next 24 hours In the news: Ireq has returned 8 war factories to full production. A 15-year-old amputee completes ...

NEW YORK – Just over a year ago, Mayor Rudy Giuliani was a tough-guy former mob prosecutor with a strong shot at the U.S. Senate. When prostate cancer forced him from the race, he sought comfort in the arms of his girlfriend – which didn't sit well with his wife, who is a popular newscaster and actress. Related content• Subway vigilante and slacker add spice to insipid campaign This summer, hizzoner moved out of the official mayoral home because his estranged wife wouldn't leave. All the while, the tabloids screamed about the "War at Gracie Mansion," the mayor's "Secret Love ...

Horror abortion raises key questions Thongbai Thongpao Readers of Thai Rath, the biggest selling Thai daily, were recently treated to the shocking headline: ``Ruthless abortion doctor cuts off arm of 8-month-old baby'', accompanied by pictures of the dead baby and its young mother. The mother, an 18-year-old Nonthaburi schoolgirl, was brought to the clinic in Ayutthaya to get an abortion by her own parents. The fee charged for the illegal service was 20,000 baht. An Ayutthaya doctor pointed out that no pregnancy should be aborted at such a late stage. Even a 7-month-old foetus can easily survive premature delivery. The ...

Officials call for immigrant sex education to cut rape toll Gender equality officials in Norway are suggesting sex education classes for new immigrants to help cut offences of rape. Statistics from the Oslo region have shown attackers of non-Western origin were described in 65% of all reported rapes. The report describes an immigrant as a person born outside Norway or born in Norway of two parents from outside the country. Immigrants make up 14% of the population of Oslo. Rachel Paul, from the Centre for Gender Equality, told daily newspaper Dagbladet that immigrants needed to be informed about sexual behaviour ...

Al Sharpton’s Jihad The potential presidential candidate inspires death threats against a Post writer. By Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO Executive Editor September 7, 2001 12:50 p.m. Beware of your opinions. They could be hazardous to your life. That's not from 1984, or a warning to the citizens of a tyrannical country. It's more like a word of caution to any journalist who might consider commenting on a black American. Witness what is happening to Rod Dreher, a columnist for the New York Post and an occasional contributor to National Review Online. Last week, the spectacle outside a New York City ...

VENICE (Reuters) - John Lennon may not have liked him, but Peter Fonda was there in the Sixties when the Beatles got so high on LSD George Harrison thought he was going to die. And it was Fonda, the cult hero who rode a Harley Davidson across America with Dennis Hopper in the 1969 classic ``Easy Rider,'' who inspired the lyrics to the Beatles song ``She Said, She Said.'' ``It was one afternoon in 1965, I remember it clearly,'' the tall, cowboy-booted Fonda, 62, told Reuters in an interview on Saturday. ``John and George had already had a dose, ...

The trip to the border had gone well for Maurice Kaelber and his wife. They got what they’d come for. Now they just had to get through customs. The border guard came up to the car and asked what they’d done. “I said I saw the Falls, and I didn’t lie, because I was there,” said Kaelber, a Jackson Township resident. “What they don’t know won’t hurt them.” What the customs official didn’t know is that Kaelber had gone to Canada to score some drugs: Repository / Julie Vennitti Maruice Kaelber • Drugs such as Apo-Metformin, a generic version of ...

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author/source:Zimbabwe Standard published:Sun 9-Sep-2001 posted on this site:Sun 9-Sep-2001 Article Type : News "If you get hold of MDC supporters, beat them until they are dead. Burn their farms and their workers' houses, then run away fast and we will then blame the burning of the workers' houses on the whites. Report to the police, because they are ours" Staff Writer Chinhoyi member of parliament, Phillip Chiyangwa, instructed his supporters in Chinhoyi to ransack and burn commercial farmers' properties during the Mashonaland West mayhem, a recent clip from a television footage reveals. Chiyangwa was filmed by the BBC television channel (sic), ...

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A 44-year-old fisherman became Florida's latest shark bite victim Saturday, receiving bite wounds that required him to be airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital for treatment, hospital spokeswoman Marilyn Chin said. The victim, whose name was not released, was in good condition late Saturday. The shark bit the victim in his left leg and on several fingers of his left hand, Chin said. A Miami-Dade Fire Rescue supervising dispatcher said the fisherman caught the shark off Everglades National Park and brought it onto his boat. Then he sprayed himself with insect repellent, became slippery and fell off the boat, accidentaly ...

author/source:Sunday Times (UK) published:Sun 9-Sep-2001 posted on this site:Sun 9-Sep-2001 Article Type : News Around the country, farms lie wrecked and smouldering from weeks of rampages Tom Walker and RW Johnson President Robert Mugabe was taking a holiday in Libya yesterday as his war veterans refused to move from white-owned farms, despite government assurances that Zimbabwe's 18-month crisis over the illegal occupation of farmland was at an end. Many farmers said they felt betrayed by Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, who pledged £36m in compensation for white farmers giving up land in a deal reached by Commonwealth ministers in Abuja, ...