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<p>June 30, 2002 -- WITH its world-famous parade going down Fifth Avenue at 2 o'clock, June's Gay Pride celebrations climax this afternoon. A group called Pink Pistols is among the worthiest organizations marking this month's national festivities. With 2,350 members and 30 chapters in 22 states, Pink Pistols encourages gays to use firearms for fun and self-preservation.</p>

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Roman Catholic diocese where Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Sanchez was raised has reiterated that it bans Catholics who support abortion rights from speaking at its churches. The ban applies to Sanchez and John Sharp, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor. Both are Catholics who say they personally oppose abortion but support a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. Bishop Edmond Carmody, of Corpus Christi, explained the ban in a story Tuesday in the Austin American-Statesman. Under guidelines in effect in the south Texas diocese since 1999, Catholics who declare themselves in support of abortion rights...

Suspect in 'Rodeo' fire held"We're insured. We'll rebuild," says Bobby Deneke, in the ruins of his Clay Springs home. "But insurance, what can that give us?" By Mark Shaffer, Anne Ryman and Chris Fiscus The Arizona Republic June 30, 2002 A Bureau of Indian Affairs firefighter has been arrested in connection with starting the "Rodeo" fire, according to federal sources. A spokesman for the multi-agency task force investigating the fire also confirmed an arrest was made at 8:15 p.m. Saturday. The suspect is in custody, he said, and will have an initial court appearance at 9:30 this morning before a...

BLAIR AIDES DENOUNCE U.S. 'BLUNDERING' IN AFGHAN WAR Sat Jun 29 2002 19:20:06 ET Senior officials in British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office have launched an astonishing attack on America's handling of the hunt for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda fugitives. But Downing Street late Saturday played down reports that Number 10 officials have attacked the United States' anti-terror campaign in Afghanistan. Blair's senior aides accused US troops of "blundering" about during house-to-house searches for Islamic fighters, according to the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH. MORE "The Americans think they and the Pakistanis can just march in shooting," one told the paper....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was alive as of late December, which means he survived a U.S. assault on caves in Tora Bora in Afghanistan, Time magazine reported in its editions out on Monday.Evidence that he was alive came in the form of a letter from him to his operations chief, Abu Zubaydah, which was found among the papers that Zubaydah was carrying when he was arrested in Pakistan in March, Time reported.The hand-written note urges Zubaydah to continue fighting the United States even if something happens to bin Laden, Time reported citing a source...

"Freedom to Worship," Norman Rockwell AS NOTED, America has, from the beginning, had a somewhat ambivalent attitude towards religion in public life. This stemmed from the fact that some of the Founding Fathers were essentially Deists, in the eighteenth-century sense, and some were believing Christians. Both streams helped to shape the American political system. It is possible to find precedent for both a rigid and a more permissive understanding of the principle of separation of church and state. Thomas Jefferson's personal suspicion of formal religion did not altogether prevail. Many customs grew up which demonstrate the esteem placed on...

  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/showcase/chi-0206300380jun30.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2DhedAbu Saleh, the organizer What is known, investigators say, is that Abu Saleh, who arrived in Rome in April 1998, was sent to Italy for the express purpose of organizing the disparate Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian Islamic opposition groups here and refocusing their efforts in the pursuit of Al Qaeda's goals. With the end of the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Algerian government's crackdown on terrorism, Islamic radicals had begun casting about for a new venue. In 1997, the same year the Taliban took power in Afghanistan and bin Laden moved his operations there from Sudan, "the terrorist networks...

WASHINGTON (June 28, 2002 6:11 p.m. EDT) - Less than half of the major U.S. airlines sought government-backed loans under a program created to help the industry recover from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Of the country's 11 largest passenger airlines, only four - America West, American Trans Air, United Airlines and US Airways - asked the Air Transportation Stabilization Board to lend them money to keep flying. The loan program required airlines to provide detailed information and let the government buy stock in their companies, a provision modeled after the Chrysler bailout. "Once they actually looked at what the...

On another thread AKA Elena posted this request: Please pray for my brother, Dan and for my sister, Sister Mary ... and for a safe flight to the South, for myself, to Louisiana ... as I go to be with my sister for a few days.

On the way to see Charlie Daniels in Chicago today I noticed a large group of homosexuals marching down the street yelling about how proud they are of their perversion. Is there any reason they were doing this today?

SRINAGAR, June 30: Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda is planning its anti-India operations with a major strike on headquarters of Jammu & Kashmir Police. The dreaded militant organisation, which has already about 40 strategists and senior operatives in Kashmir valley under the command of one Mulla Abrar, is expecting "a very important guest" from Pakistan in near future. Preparations are said to be underway to strike in a big way, beginning from the Police Headquarters. The three-storeyed building, housing the offices of the Director General of Police and other senior Police officials, was earlier destroyed by Hizbul Mujahideen in January 1992....

Woman Dies On Way Home From Family Funeral Victim Still Not Identified By Police POSTED: 11:24 a.m. EDT June 30, 2002 UPDATED: 1:30 p.m. EDT June 30, 2002 CRANSTON, R.I. -- State troopers said an unidentified woman, who was returning from a relative's funeral, was killed when her car went off Route 295 and struck some trees Saturday. The woman's husband survived the crash. R.I. State Police Sgt. Mark Surtel said," She swerved to try and overcompensate, and just lost control of the vehicle. She hit a grassy part of the highway to the right-hand side. The vehicle came to...

Home Depot Changes Mind, Will Sell To Uncle Sam Company Reminded Stores Earlier Not To Sell To Feds Posted: 2:43 p.m. EDT June 30, 2002 ATLANTA -- Home Depot has reversed its stance on doing business with the U.S. government, just a few weeks after reminding its stores not to sell to federal agencies. The nation's second-largest retailer behind Wal-Mart had cited the immense number of rules and paperwork covering federal contractors when it reiterated its no-government sales policy to store managers. But the company decided Friday to reverse course after hearing from its associates and customers and looking more...

President Bush arrived back at the White House this afternoon after a weekend at Camp David. The President made some brief remarks to reporters regarding his colonoscopy yesterday. Because the procedure showed no signs of polyp reoccurrence, the President will not need another colonscopy for five years. The procedure hasn't interrupted his workout routine as Bush ran three miles today and took a walk in the woods with wife, Laura. The President has a busy schedule this week before heading to Ripley, WV on the 4th. Enjoy your daily dose of Dubya! President's Holiday Week Schedule: Monday: Cleveland, OH- regarding...

SRINAGAR, India - The most influential and hardline Islamic political party in Indian-controlled Kashmir ( news - web sites) announced on Sunday it had severed ties with Muslim militants and Pakistan, into which it has long proposed a merger of the Himalayan region. Analysts described the announcement as one of the most significant political developments in years in Kashmir — the cause of five decades of tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan and two wars. It was also a major win for New Delhi. The reason behind the dramatic turnaround by the Jama'at-e-Islami party was not immediately apparent. "I want...

<p>N.Y.'s Attorney General is going after telecom's $20 million man -- as investors count their losses.</p> <p>NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) - Who is to blame when a stock drops? Or an entire sector implodes?</p> <p>It wouldn't be fair to blame a single individual for such complicated events. But there are situations when one person's contribution is impossible to overlook. And Jack Grubman is such a person.</p>

Please visit the new website and learn how the communist Church Council of Greater Seattle is currently helping Fidel Castro's communist dictatorship in Cuba. The Church Council also wants to free the five Cuban spies found guilty in an American court. Outrageous!  http://geocities.com/sccgsnow/  Please sign the petition to demand a halt to the Church Council of Greater Seattle Cuban dictatorship help programs. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/echuta/ Please make your voice heard. Please pass this on to your family, friends, and churches that care about human rights in Cuba. Thank you! The International Committee for Human Rights in Cuba / New York Artists for Democracy in Cuba Project...

I use war crimes to encompass the commission of all acts declared illegal under international rules of war as enumerated in the various Hague and Geneva agreements and conventions and pronounced in the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. Among these acts are the carrying out of wars of aggression, the use of poison gases and other inhumane weapons, deliberately killing and starving civilian populations, and the use of force beyond military necessity. War crimes can be carried out directly or through proxy forces that are funded, encouraged, and protected in their own war criminality. This means that inaction—failure to discourage or...

One year later: New weapons law arms 719 residents Telegram photo by Deloris Clark Osborne -- John Sprague of Johnson's Sporting Goods in Adrian displays a Beretta 92FS in the store. Sprague said pistols such as the Beretta are the guns of choice for residents who choose to carry a concealed weapon. By Dennis Pelham -- Daily Telegram Staff Writer One year after it went into effect on the heels of a Michigan Supreme Court ruling, the state's concealed handgun law is being judged a success in Lenawee County. Since July 1 last year, 917 Lenawee County residents have started...

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