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ex-KLA surrender in Kosovo serious crime probe PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, June 19 (Reuters) - Two Kosovo Albanian men surrendered on Wednesday to United Nations police who are investigating former separatist guerrillas for crimes committed in the Yugoslav province. They joined four others arrested on Tuesday by investigators pursuing cases of illegal detention and serious assault, in which "most of the victims remain missing," according to a police statement. An eyewitness told Reuters one of the two was Daut Haradinaj, a former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and its civilian successor, the Kosovo Protection Corps. He is the brother of...

Turning Freedom Into Free Lunch By W. James Antle III Published 06. 18. 02 at 23:14 Sierra Time Only in a free society would people hold their freedom so lightly. Similarly, only in a society that enjoys the prosperity freedom creates would people entertain the illusion that a cradle-to-grave welfare state is not only desirable but also indefinitely feasible. Take a look at the birthplace of Western civilization. Throughout Europe, economies have struggled under the massive tax and regulatory burden their governments have imposed yet serious efforts at reform provoke strikes and street demonstrations. France actually had to reduce...

(June 19, 2002 12:08 p.m. EDT) - The mail brings a letter from a self-identified African-American prison inmate (several of the same type have arrived since Sept. 11). He predicts Islam will take over the world and America's days are numbered. This man is one of many converts to radical Islam under a program indirectly funded by Saudi Arabian money through the National Islamic Prison Foundation, which underwrites a "prison outreach" program. This program is likely to be discussed at the fifth annual Islam in American Prisons Conference, scheduled for July 5-7 at the Holiday Inn O'Hare International in Rosemont,...

Genghis Khan, Democrats and the Minimum WageJoan NagyTuesday, June 18, 2002 When Genghis Khan invaded China he vowed to destroy the country. Seeing nothing of value he planned to level its cities and obliterate its culture. "It would be better to exterminate the Chinese and let the grass grow,” the 12th-century warrior Khan was said to exclaimed. Khan was shrewd, ruthless, and ambitious. Mongol armies ruthlessly eliminated any resistance, even slaughtering entire populations in conquered cities. One man stood between Khan and the destruction of China. Yelu Ch’u-Ts’ai, was a foreigner to China, but had come to love and appreciate...

Accused terrorist Zaccarias Moussaoui wants to move his trial to Denver because he says it's safer, the air is better and fewer government employees would wind up on the jury. Moussaoui, 34, the only person charged in the United States for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, made the request in a motion unsealed Monday by the federal judge in his Alexandria, Va., trial. Moussaoui is charged with conspiring with 19 hijackers who commandeered four airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in rural Pennsylvania, killing more than 3,000 people. If convicted, he faces...

<p>GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Faced with legal and political obstacles, managers of the Klamath Basin national wildlife refuges have given up trying to move commercial farming off land that was once marsh used by Pacific Flyway waterfowl.</p> <p>"The laws the way they are and the politics the way they are, farming is going to be part of our life," said Phil Norton, manager of the national wildlife refuges straddling the Oregon-California border. "We are trying to work with the local community."</p>

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Power deregulation fueled pollution - NAFTA agency MONTREAL - North American power companies, the continent's biggest polluters, slashed spending on energy efficiency programs by 42 percent between 1995 and 1999, in part because of the deregulation of electricity markets, an environmental watchdog said this week. In a 45-page report on the continent's electricity market, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, a Montreal-based agency created under the North American Free Trade Agreement, said power companies cut expenditures on energy efficiency measures to $1.4 billion in 1999 from $2.4 billion in 1995. That added to air pollution in the United States, Canada...

WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy said Tuesday he intends to rekindle the national debate over healthcare by introducing new legislation to expand the ranks of the insured and help trim healthcare costs, adding he will also introduce legislation calling for universal insurance coverage by the end of the year. Speaking at the National Press Club, Kennedy, D-Mass., said fighting terrorism and ensuring homeland security are important, but "we cannot afford to neglect the health care crisis that affects many millions of our fellow citizens." Thirty-nine million Americans now have no health insurance and 30 million more will...

Promising that it will be one of the "most historic gatherings of African people in America," organizers of the Millions for Reparations Rally are demanding monetary compensation from the United States government and its citizens. The theme of the rally is: "They owe us!" Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), and a critic of the rally, said, "If that many people have enough money to go to D.C. to march, then they don't need reparations." The Aug. 17 event will take place in Washington, D.C. on the 115th birthday of...

<p>WASHINGTON — Most kids expect a toy or a coupon when they reach to the bottom of a cereal box, not a hateful message or pornographic image.</p> <p>But that’s exactly what a number of unsuspecting consumers have been finding in their boxes of Honeycomb and Alpha-Bits cereal. Word of the inserts reached the ears of Washington lawmakers, who last week passed a bill that would make such product tampering a federal crime.</p>

The ideology of jihad was formulated by Muslim jurists and scholars, including such luminaries as Averroes and Ibn Khaldun, from the 8th century onward. A recent Harvard commencement speech notwithstanding, these voluminous writings establish unequivocally the notion of jihad as a war of conquest. For example, Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) stated, "..the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universality of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everyone to Islam either by persuasion or by force...". Jihad conquests were brutal, imperialist advances that spurred waves of Arab and Turkish Muslims to expropriate a vast expanse of...

Gearing Up to Harvest Mars' Water Resource By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 07:00 am ET 19 June 2002 The surprising signal from Mars Odyssey is that oceans of ice lie in wait just under the surface of the Red Planet. Scientists have found Martian terrain that is hydrogen-rich, an indicator of water ice. The most abundant reservoirs of that near-surface water stretch from the planet's poles to within about 50 degrees of the equator. The amount of hydrogen detected is huge. So much so that one brimming bucket of ice-rich polar soil, when heated, can yield more...

<p>SACRAMENTO - California's brightest students might be allowed to skip from elementary school directly to college, missing high school altogether, under legislation recently approved by the Assembly.</p> <p>Students of any age, even as young as kindergarten, could take the state's high school proficiency examination under the bill, AB2607, written by Assemblywoman Lynne Leach, R-Walnut Creek.</p>

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Too often, we look at our nation’s politics in the abstract, without a global context — but adding that context can yield new insights. When Bill Clinton won in 1992, his victory was matched by the success of center-left parties throughout the world that brought liberal, labor or social democratic governments to 13 of the 15 member nations of the European Union (EU). George W. Bush’s triumph is, likewise, part of an international surge in center-right parties that have put conservative or Christian democratic parties in power in seven of the EU nations once run by the left (Denmark, Sweden,...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. LOS ANGELES -- The world's two largest telescope makers are locked in a battle that amateur astronomers and federal regulators alike fear could monopolize the market for a popular type of stargazing equipment. Meade Instruments Corp. of Irvine has filed three lawsuits against rival Celestron International Inc., alleging patent infringement related to computerized telescope technology. Celestron, based in Torrance, believes the suits could bankrupt the company as it seeks to buy back its independence from parent Tasco Worldwide Inc., which announced in May it was liquidating its assets. The latest of...

<p>State Finance Director Tim Gage may have provided legislators with the closest thing to an explanation in their quest to understand how on earth the Davis administration in just 22 days approved a $95 million contract, without competitive bidding, for Oracle Corp. software the state probably didn't need.</p>

Police add details to data on abductor Kidnapper now described as 30 to 40 with dark hair By Brady Snyder and Pat ReavyDeseret News staff writers       Police released Tuesday a new description of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapper based on information from her 9-year-old sister who stealthily observed the abductor unnoticed. Elizabeth Smart has now been missing for almost two weeks. Everyone has been encouraged to look for her.Smart Family Photo/Joy Gough       Instead of talking to her 14-year-old sister's kidnapper, Mary Katherine Smart feigned sleep and told police she didn't think the man noticed she was...