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WASHINGTON – Federal authorities have forced one of the largest flight schools in the country to shut down after discovering many of its foreign students overstaying their visas, WorldNetDaily has learned. The Immigration and Naturalization Service says its investigation of Aer Mistral Flying School at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport in Texas is still active. "That is still an open investigation," said Lynn Ligon, spokesman for the Dallas district office of the INS. The school, popular among Arab nationals, lost its ability to issue M-1 vocational visas, and had to close its doors in March, said Meacham airport manager Luis...

THE United States has blasted the government’s seizure of commercial farms, saying the exercise has led to gross human rights abuses and compounded Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises. A US State Department spokesperson said the government-backed land seizures had exacerbated the food crisis in Zimbabwe and southern Africa. "A fundamental duty of every government is to put in place the legal and policy framework to enable its citizens to feed themselves, a duty that the government of Zimbabwe has wilfully scorned at great cost to the people of Zimbabwe and the region," the spokesperson noted. The US aired its concerns...

In one key TV rating measurement, "Alan Keyes is Making Sense" – scheduled to be broadcast for the last time tonight on MSNBC – has been pulling in better numbers than has the show that will replace it, "Ashleigh Banfield On Location." As WorldNetDaily reported, Keyes, whose 10 p.m. cable news show began in January, was offered a 4 p.m. timeslot by the network, but he rejected that offer, saying through his media representative, Bob Angelotti, that an afternoon show "would not reach our audience. Primetime hours are the most conducive to getting the message out." Banfield's show has been...

PRESIDENT BUSH’S Monday statement was the most clear-sighted U.S. intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis in the 35 years since the 1967 war, and perhaps in the 54 years since the founding of Israel. It enunciated a policy that makes eventual peace at least conceivable, and meanwhile frees the President to pursue the global anti-terrorism agenda articulated in five other speeches this year. Eighty-one days had passed since the President’s last intervention, which was the last gasp of the bankrupt policy of attempting to be an “honest broker” between terror and its victims. That April 4 statement was an uncertain trumpet,...

<p>Wall Street is looking more and more like Fraud Street. From the White House to Main Street, cries of outrage rose over the latest in a string financial scandals ripping though the economic heart of America.</p> <p>An angry-looking President Bush said he was "deeply concerned" about some of the accounting practices in corporate America and called "outrageous" the disclosure that the quickly collapsing telecommunications giant WorldCom had hidden $3.8 billion in expenses.</p>

SELOUS — It is just before midday when we trudge along a dusty road leading to Sandriver Farm, home to David Fowler who has exactly 43 days from today to leave the property he has called his own for most of his life. Fowler, his brothers and sisters have survived on the proceeds from the 1 160-hectare farm, 90 kms southwest of Harare, since 1974. He inherited the property from his parents four years ago but his future and that of 70-plus families who work the farm is now uncertain as a deadline imposed by the government for white farmers...

LAST WEEK THE Supreme Court decreed that executing the retarded violates the Constitution. It was a patently awful decision, revealing how confused America is about both the Constitution and the retarded. Let’s take the Constitution first. The court’s decision was met with almost unrestrained glee from the nation’s editorial pages. “The U.S. Supreme Court has made a remarkable — and overdue — 180-degree turn,” editorialized the San Francisco Chronicle. “If ever a public issue called for a reversal, execution of the mentally retarded is one.” “The 6-3 decision will save the lives of dozens of convicted murderers and move the...

OPPONENTS of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law said it violated the U.S. Constitution, was too broad in scope and would be overly intrusive and burdensome for groups involved in legitimate political activity. Proponents said that was just a bunch of hot air. But now one opponent has proven the critics correct. Last week the Republican National Committee had a host of political interest groups, mostly left-leaning and pro Democrat, subpoenaed to find out if their political activity violated the McCain-Feingold law. Naturally, the groups that received the subpoenas cried foul. They said they would have to divulge sensitive information...

<p>June 27, 2002 -- IS IT any wonder that people are scared of the stock market?</p> <p>Crooked accountants, lying analysts, tax-cheat CEOs. Every day brings more shocks and outrages from the corner offices of American business - and people are getting the message.</p> <p>The stock market? Forget it!</p>

Rogers Police To Relax Ban On Fireworks For The Fourth Thu, Jun 27, 2002 Guidelines offered; tickets would be issued under noise ordinance By Erik Sanzenbach The Morning News/NWAonline.net ROGERS -- Even though fireworks are not legal within Rogers city limits, the police department will allow residents to use fireworks July 3 and 4. "We are taking a real relaxed approach to enforcement for July 3 and 4," said Lt. Mike Johnson. There will be some guidelines for using fireworks on the Fourth: • No fireworks may be used on land that is someone else's property. • Fireworks may not...

Former Army microbiologist Steven J. Hatfill is either a pawn in an FBI attempt to recharge its stalled anthrax investigation, or a potential suspect who holds critical clues to solving the case that has bedeviled the agency for the past nine months. Those two interpretations of the FBI's high-profile search of Hatfill's residence circulated through the scientific and law enforcement communities Wednesday - one day after agents removed garbage bags full of evidence from a Frederick, Md., apartment complex, and, as TV news crews circled overhead, loaded them into a large rental truck . "Their intent was clearly to put...

STEINER SAYS NO RETURN OF KOSOVA TO SERBIAN RULE Michael Steiner, who heads the UN's civilian authority in Kosova (UNMIK), told the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" of 26 June that he rules out two possibilities for Kosova's future: a partition along ethnic lines -- as desired by some Serbs -- or a return to direct Serbian control, as was the case before NATO occupied Kosova in 1999. Steiner added, however, that he has given the Kosovars "benchmarks" that they must reach before the province's final status can be determined. The benchmarks include the development of self-government, in which all ethnic groups...

<p>June 27, 2002 -- IT'S like "The Emperor's New Clothes" - suddenly Yasser Arafat stands naked to the world as a terrorist.</p> <p>President Bush dared to say what most of the world, Arabs included, already believed to be the truth about Arafat - that he's corrupt and traffics with terrorists - and overnight, everything looks different.</p>

Posters Perturb City Thu, Jun 27, 2002 Signs Have Been Seen Around Town By Jeff Niese The Morning News/NWAonline.net FAYETTEVILLE -- City workers have taken down 23 anonymous posters around town since Saturday that depict caricatures of President Bush and refer to his administration as a "Tower of Babble." The posters have aggravated city employees, not because of the posters' message but rather because they've had to spend hours removing them from traffic utility boxes and the city's right of way. The satirical posters have left some people guessing as to their message. Police and city officials say they do...

<p>June 27, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - More than 20,000 gas masks are headed to the Capitol, after police yesterday said fear of a biological attack by terrorists against Congress warrants the extra protection.</p> <p>The masks will be set aside to protect not just lawmakers but all staff, along with any tourists in the Capitol and all support workers - like pages, cooks, janitors and elevator operators.</p>

<p>All the characters in the ImClone insider-trading mess have one trait in common: They're all liberals. Indeed, Clintonian liberals.</p> <p>A key principle of Clintonian liberalism is that if someone is proficient at his job, his character doesn't matter. (Forgotten how we learned this principle? One word: Monica.) And that principle is central to the ImClone mess.</p>

<p>June 27, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said, "I meant what I said" that Yasser Arafat must go - and warned America may cut off funds to the Palestinians if he doesn't.</p> <p>"I meant what I said, that there needs to be change," Bush told reporters at the G8 economic summit in Canada.</p>

<p>June 27, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - Israeli forces kept a tight grip on seven West Bank cities yesterday and arrested a terrorist commander responsible for ordering the massacre of five people last week at a Jewish settlement, authorities said.</p> <p>Israeli troops maintained a siege on the main police and governmental complex in Hebron, where 15 suspected terrorists were holed up.</p>

Suspect in killing attorney says he plotted attack for months June 26, 2002 BEAUMONT, Texas- An elderly man accused of killing an attorney at a law firm said he plotted the attack for months and called the killing "justifiable homicide," a television station reported Wednesday night. Richard Gerzine, 80, also told KBTV-TV of Beaumont-Port Arthur, that "I'm the victim here." Gerzine remains jailed on a murder charge over the June 13 slaying of Cris Quinn, 47. The shooting took place at the offices of Reaud Morgan and Quinn, where the victim was a senior partner. Police have said they believe...