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Israeli Plan To Seize PA Land Won't End Bloodshed 19 June 2002 Summary Israel announced June 19 that it will take and hold more Palestinian Authority-controlled territory in retaliation for suicide bombings. The threat is meant to deter further suicide bombings, but actually carrying it out will be a logistical nightmare for the Israeli military, and it will widen divisions within the Israeli government. Analysis In reaction to a June 18 suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed 19 people, the Cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved a policy to begin seizing and holding Palestinian areas. What this means...

Here's the story ... I got to the airport to fly to "an other state" for an interview. My flight was delayed so I started to go thru my pre-employment packet. I found in this packet a notice that the company not only wanted to drug test which I had grudgingly agreed to but they also wanted a credit report and a driving record. All this for a circuit design job which has NOTHING to do witn finance or driving. I called the company and asked the HR person, " what does credit and driving have to do with designing...

BULAWAYO — Fresh farm occupations have surfaced on commercial farms in Nyamandlovu, with armies of suspected ruling ZANU PF supporters and their war veterans disrupting game hunts by foreign hunters, farming officials said yesterday. The farm occupiers have taken Porta Farm, Sailor Jack Farm and Ladywell Farms — three prime properties with an assortment of game in Nyamandlovu, 60 km north of here — disrupting tourism activities in safari camps within the commercial farms. "Today a Mr Amos Mkhwananzi and his family came to claim part of my farm together with another gentleman I presume to be from the Ministry...

Jesse Ventura has dealt those who love to read and write humor a horrendous blow. On Tuesday Ventura announced that he would not seek re-election as Minnesota governor. The man who showed a nation the grim reality of what can happen when voters are presented with an array of choices about as appealing as heads of lettuce on the produce rack at the Chernobyl Piggly Wiggly has said he will leave office at the end of his term. Ventura said he was waiting to announce his intention to not seek another term until after his Far East trade mission to...

A man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly building a homemade biological weapon with a lethal toxin from the castor plant, the FBI said.FBI AGENT Norm Brown said there was no known connection between the man, Kenneth Olsen, and terrorists. “In our opinion, the public has nothing to fear from this incident,” Brown said. Olsen, 47, was allegedly making ricin, a deadly extract of castor beans. Traces of ricin have been found by U.S. troops in Afghanistan at suspected al-Qaida biological weapons sites, Brown said. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office began investigating Olsen last August, and the FBI later became involved,...

MIAMI -- A woman was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday for dousing her 15-year-old daughter with gasoline and setting her on fire, leaving the teen severely and permanently disfigured. Maria Tarrago, 41, of Miami received the maximum sentence for three separate counts of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated child abuse causing great harm, and tampering with physical evidence in the December 1999 incident. ``Linguists have yet to formulate words that can adequately describe the wickedness you visited upon your own child,'' said Circuit Judge Scott Silverman, reading from a statement. ``Your sentence today is in no way comparable to...

Another Jupiter Twin Found in Flood of Planet Discoveries By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer and Tariq Malik Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. - European astronomers announced this week the discovery of a Jupiter-like planet around another star, a finding that comes less than a week after a similar announcement of a Jovian lookalike around another star by a U.S.-led team. The latest discovery is a gas giant world similar in mass to Jupiter in an orbit at 3.7 astronomical units (AU). One AU is the distance from Earth to the Sun. Jupiter orbits at 5.2 AU. Though the discovery...

COMMERCIAL FARMERS' UNION This report does not purport to cover all the incidents that are taking place in the commercial farming areas. Communication problems and the fear of reprisals prevent farmers from reporting all that happens. Farmers names, and in some cases farm names, are omitted to minimise the risk of reprisals. NATIONAL REPORT IN BRIEF On Blackmorvale, Chakari, the owners were not allowed to plant any of the 600 hectares of wheat they were due to plant, and settlers have not planted either, despite receiving free seed. The owners have offered half their farm to Government, but have not...

This was just emailed to me: For all who have not yet heard... on the radio, by phone call, word of mouth or mail; a short while ago HaRav HaGaon Elyashiv has requested all Jews Worldwide to take several minutes out of their hectic schedules, and to say tehilim for Klal Yisrael and to daven / pray for the IDF and the State of Israel, which is now at war. Every Jewish household ---- Wordwide........ Any of the Psalms / tehilim will be of enormous help, but Psalms / Tehilim: Prakim 20, 83, 121, 130, and 142 are most appropriate....

AN anaesthetist helped lace an abortion doctor's coffee with sedatives because she wanted to keep his temper tantrums under control. Anaesthetist Dawn Cullen confirmed that in one of his temper tantrums, Dr Peter Bayliss had left a patient tied to a bed with a sanitary pad stuffed in her mouth. Cullen, Bayliss's former colleague at the Greenslopes Fertility Clinic in Brisbane, was giving evidence at an inquest into the doctor's death. The inquest reopened this week after Bayliss's housekeeper told the Brisbane coroner's office that the doctor's de facto wife, Claudia McEwan, was rumoured to have spiked his coffee with...

Unidentified aircraft reported within airspace

Wednesday, June 19, 2002PBS Is in Trouble This will be bad news for all those liberal elitists who consider the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) their personal fiefdom, and good news for all us yahoos who think America could well do without a federally funded radio and TV liberal propaganda network - PBS may be sinking into the swamps that swallowed Enron and Global Crossing. "We are dangerously close in our overall primetime number to falling below the relevance quotient," whined liberal PBS president Pat Mitchell last February in a heads-up for her local affiliates. "And if that happens, we will...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - An undercover probe of the Vagos motorcycle club led to the arrests of a dozen people for allegedly trafficking in illegal drugs and weapons.</p> <p>Federal, state and local officials served warrants Tuesday in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. They seized an unspecified quantity of narcotics and 85 firearms, said Letice Baker, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.</p>

LP candidate training offered at conventionThe Libertarian Party will offer a campaign training seminar at the upcoming National Convention that will teach candidates the "tricks, techniques, and lessons of Libertarian success."The event -- entitled the Libertarian Victory School -- will be held from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Tuesday and Wednesday (July 2-3), just prior to the National Convention at the Indianapolis Marriott in Indianapolis, Indiana, announced LP Political Director Ron Crickenberger."Whether you are a long-time LP activist who wants to hone your skills, or a brand new member who wants to learn how to maximize your political effectiveness,...

Since its peak in March 2000, the stock market has lost about a third of its value, or almost $6 trillion, according to Wilshire Associates. Everyone would like to think that these immense losses -- painful to individual investors and possibly threatening to the economy -- are someone else's fault. And now, suitable culprits seem to have emerged: Wall Street and corporate America, whose greed and dishonesty allegedly rigged the market. Hardly a day passes without some new scandal, whether of dubious accounting practices, illegal (or unethical) trading by insiders or dishonest stock advice. Americans were, it seems, duped. Companies...

A Hannibal town justice Monday night sentenced a man to what one investigator says is among the toughest penalties faced by an Oswego County defendant in an animal cruelty case. Darcy Noble, 33, of [ snip ] Road, Woodland Trailer Park, received three years' probation and was ordered to pay $675.15 in restitution. Justice Luther Dennison also ordered Noble not to own any animals for the next five years. Noble admitted last month in court that he starved his dog earlier this year. The dog, a 3- or 4-year-old mixed breed, never recovered from the malnutrition so doctors euthanized it,...

<p>McLEAN, Va. (AP) _ The granddaughter of former treasury secretary and secretary of state James Baker has died in a freak hot tub accident.</p> <p>Fairfax County police said 7-year-old Virginia Graham Baker was pulled underwater Saturday by the strong suction of the whirlpool and became trapped against the drain. She had been attending a party for her sister's high school graduation.</p>

Wednesday, June 19, 2002 Angry Italian club owner cuts Ahn ESPN.com news services ROME -- Italian soccer club Perugia has cut ties with South Korea's Ahn Jung-hwan after he scored the overtime goal that knocked Italy out of the World Cup, Perugia's chairman said in media reports Wednesday. "That gentleman will never set foot in Perugia again," Luciano Gaucci told sports' daily La Gazzetta dello Sport. Italy has been furious about Tuesday's 2-1 loss to South Korea, accusing the referee and soccer's ruling body FIFA of fixing the match. Back home, the Italian media were livid. "Thieves -- the killer...

SARAH MURPHY Tom Ridge The White House delivered its much-awaited homeland legislation to Capitol Hill Tuesday, as lawmakers took steps of their own to shape the proposal into law. The House is today expected to approve a resolution creating an ad hoc select committee to help steer the legislation through the chamber. Meanwhile, lawmakers in both the House and Senate are gearing up to question Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge when he testifies Thursday. Ridge met with leaders from both houses of Congress Tuesday to deliver the 35-page draft bill, emphasizing the need for cooperation as Congress began to...

Defense giants set 52-week highsNorthrop, Lockheed, GD, TRW clear 1-year hurdles By August Cole, CBS.MarketWatch.comLast Update: 5:07 PM ET June 19, 2002 NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Shares of some of the biggest defense companies hit 52-week highs Wednesday, bucking the broader market's decline made worse by another suicide bombing in Israel. The Amex Defense Index (DFI: news, chart, profile) rose 0.7 percent.General Dynamics (GD: news, chart, profile) closed up 26 cents to $107.50, after setting a 52-week high of $109.35. Northrop Grumman (NOC: news, chart, profile) rose $2.80 to $132.50; it set a new high for the year at $135....