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What? The Illinois Republican Party Victory Conference. When? July 26-27, 2002 Where? Oak Brook Hills Resort Oak Brook, IL How? Register at http://www.ilgop.org/Misc%20PD F/VC_Broch_V11.0.pdf.

Messrs Musharraf and Arafat The head of the Israeli Council of National Security, Uzi Dayan, was very cautious when he came back to Israel from another Indian tour some time back. "Our developing relations with India are not against anybody," he said, meaning Pakistan. He also recalled that after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf came to power there were modest attempts to improve Israeli relations with Islamabad. Nevertheless, nobody believes that the Israeli-Indian relationship is a platonic one. In the world after September 11, local conflicts like Kashmir, the West Bank or Kosovo have assumed new dimensions that have a direct...

USA Today Report on NC US Seante Race omitted any polls. What's the skinny? Is Dole trouncing Snyder, et. al. or is the race heating up? Is Bowles way ahead or is Blue catching up. How well are the campaigns being managed? Any surprises to come?

LONDON, July 3 (AFP) - Britain on Tuesday called for new Palestinian leaders to take their place alongside Yasser Arafat, but denied a rift with the United States over President George W. Bush's harder line that Arafat should go. Junior British foreign office minister Mike O'Brien said that the Palestinian Authority needed to "reform its institutions and create circumstances in which other representatives can come forward with whom we can deal, as well as president Arafat". His call, made in a statement issued in London, came after he met Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah, where he...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (July 1, 2002 11:33 p.m. EDT) - Russia's military is shrinking its 80,000-strong force in breakaway Chechnya to a tighter, long-term force, in a withdrawal that may wrap up by the end of the year, the commander of troops in the area said Monday. Col. Gen. Vladimir Moltenskoi repeated Russian claims that the fighters under rebel Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov are no longer able to mount serious resistance to Russian forces, despite continued rebel raids that killed five servicemen and injured nine in the latest daily Russian casualty count. Maskhadov "has no more resources to organize resistance against...

Civil War historians are reeling over the discovery that a Confederate scientist was just weeks away from perfecting a crude atomic bomb -- and planned to use the device to destroy Washington, D.C., 138 years ago . . . in 1864! Physicist Thaddeus McMullen was killed before he could carry out the plot, reveals Joel Remarsh, a Civil War historian who uncovered McMullen’s maniacal plan while studying a collection of war-era journals, letters and documents given to him by McMullen’s descendants. “My blood ran cold when I realized what I was reading,” says Remarsh, who plans to reveal all in...

CNN needs help from Connie Chung right about now. The Atlanta-based network still hasn't found a way to catch up with ratings leader Fox News Channel, results released Tuesday show. The high-profile debut of Chung's show brought in additional viewers last week but not a flood -- and not enough to come close to rival Bill O'Reilly, who is host of "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News. Overall, Fox News attracted an average audience of 620,000 people over the last three months, about a fifth larger than CNN's, according to Nielsen Media Research numbers supplied by the networks. CNN averaged...

(The following is available in slightly different format on the Colorado Freedom Report website. More information on this publication can be found on the site.) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:59:26 -0600 To: ari@co-freedom.com From: "Ari Armstrong" Subject: COFREE: Stanley Responds to Charges of Racist E-Mail C O L O R A D O * F R E E D O M * R E P O R T * Friends, It is with great sadness that I bring you the following article. However, I believe I have a responsibility to do so. Following my piece is Michelle Konieczny's letter...

Everyone Is Outraged By PAUL KRUGMAN Arthur Levitt, Bill Clinton's choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, crusaded for better policing of corporate accounting — though he was often stymied by the power of lobbyists. George W. Bush replaced him with Harvey Pitt, who promised a "kinder and gentler" S.E.C. Even after Enron, the Bush administration steadfastly opposed any significant accounting reforms. For example, it rejected calls from the likes of Warren Buffett to require deduction of the cost of executive stock options from reported profits. But Mr. Bush and Mr. Pitt say they are outraged about WorldCom. Representative...

<p>Checkpoint screeners at 32 of the nation's largest airports failed to detect fake weapons — guns, dynamite or bombs — in almost a quarter of undercover tests by the Transportation Security Administration last month, documents obtained by USA Today show.</p>

President Bush was right to declare that the Palestinians need to produce decent governance before they can get a state. Too bad, though, that he didn't say that it's not only the Palestinians who need radical reform of their governance ? i t's most of the Arab world. By coincidence, though, some other important folks had the courage to say that just this week: The U.N. Development Program, which on Tuesday published, along with the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Develop ment, a brutally honest Arab Human Development Report, analyzing the three main reasons the Arab world is falling...

WASHINGTON The makers of antidepressants are going to have to start testing their own products. Drug companies peddling to our Zombie Nation are now frantically trying to climb out of a marketing valley of the dolls, a slump in the pace of sales of their little bliss pills. A front-page article in The Times on Sunday chronicled how antidepressants have lost their aura as miracle drugs. As profits declined, efficacy plateaued and side effects increased (``Side effects may include dry mouth, flopsweat, deadened emotions, tremors, lassitude, insomnia, constipation, incontinence, deflated libido, inflated libido, overeating, no appetite, and your spleen going...

The First Ten Amendments to the constitution of the United States printed on sturdy, pocket-sized, pieces of metal. The next time you travel by air, take the Security Edition of the Bill of Rights along with you. When asked to empty your pockets, proudly toss the Bill of Rights in the plastic bin. You need to get used to offering up the bill of rights for inspection and government workers need to get used to deciding if you'll be allowed to keep the Bill of Rights with you when you travel.

PESHAWAR, July 1: Pakistan Army personnel have arrested an Arab Al Qaeda terrorist in the remote tribal territory bordering Afghanistan, local officials and tribesmen said on Monday. The Arab detainee, believed to be a member of Osama bin Laden's terror network, was arrested on Sunday from a bus at Tanai village in south Waziristan, they said. "The Arab travelling in the bus was trying to enter Wana," a local administration official told reporters in the area. He was being held for questioning in Wana, he said. Residents said the bus was travelling from Lahore, but it was unclear from where...

The potentially fatal flaw of President Bush's Middle East peace framework was exposed just days after his speech last week. To make his historic call for a Palestinian state palatable for Israel and its allies in Congress, Bush demanded removal from power of Yasser Arafat. But, it quickly became clear, that strengthened the old guerrilla leader's sagging position with Palestinians and in the broader Arab world. This development profoundly depresses sincere supporters within the Palestinian Authority of a peaceful two-state solution. They know that Arafat, depleted at age 72, is not the solution today and probably never was. Prominent peace...

<p>WASHINGTON — The National Education Association is crying foul play after a Washington state judge slapped the country's largest teachers union with an $800,000 fine for failing to show up for court on charges that it was illegally spending members' dues on politics.</p>

Khalid Mohammed has been identified as one of the FBIs 22 most wanted for his role in masterminding or implementing the 9/11 attacks for Bin Laden and AlQaeda. This was reported in the NY Times in mid June 2002 by James Risen. It has recently been learned that Mohammed was directly involved with and oversaw the participants in the 1994 meeting with Terry Nichols in the Philippines to plan the OKC bombing. Khalid Mohammed was in charge of the men connected to AlQaeda, Bin Laden and Abu Sayeff, the men who met with Nichols in the Philippines to plot the...

Xerox Corp disclosed that its Indian subsidiary made "improper payments" over the years to push sales to government customers, according to an annual report filing with the US Securities Exchange Commission. Xerox Corp, once the king of copiers, holds a 68 per cent stake in its Indian unit Xerox Modicorp Ltd. "In India, we learned of certain improper payments made over a period of years in connection with sales to government customers by employees of our majority-owned subsidiary in that country," said Xerox, which last week restated five years of results in another accounting scandal in Corporate America. According to...

ERUSALEM, July 2 — It has been muffled by Israel's latest military offensive in the West Bank and the Bush administration's demands for the ouster of Yasir Arafat, but a debate is under way among Palestinians over suicide bombing.Criticism of such attacks is made in code and pitched to Palestinian self-interest rather than broader moral concerns. The critics are trying to avoid alienating Palestinians who feel that any weapon is legitimate when turned against Israelis, whom they view as stealing their land and using overwhelming force to keep it.Like President Bush's demand for democratic change and new leaders, the...

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