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WIRE:July 17, 0:05 a.m. ET More public stations may be involved in political list-swapping AP News Service WASHINGTON (AP) _ More public television stations may have been sharing donor lists with political parties through list brokers, says a spokesman for a congressman who has called a hearing on the issue for next week. ``The problem appears to be more pervasive than we first thought,'' Ken Johnson, spokesman for Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., said Friday. Johnson said documents indicate that public television stations KQED in San Francisco and KCET in Los Angeles and public radio station WNYC in New York have ...

HATCH ON O'REILLY FACTOR Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican presidential candidate, appears on The O'Reilly Factor, Thursday.

ABRIDGED Wives start fights: Study By Jim Jamieson, Staff Reporter, The Province * B.C. – July 13 A6 Even before its release, a controversial study on domestic violence is provoking debate over the frequency of women as aggressors in spousal assault. In a study to be published this week in the Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, Simon Fraser University researcher Marilyn Kwong concludes that women are . . . almost three times more likely to initiate violence. The study relied upon data gathered in a 1987 survey of 705 Alberta men and women. “It’s bloody well about time,” said Katherine ...

FIRST NATIONS & NATIONAL CONGRESS AMERICAN INDIANS CONFER

The following was published in the Saturday, July 10, 1999 edition of the Indo-Canadian Voice (Rajesh Gupta – Munish Katyal, publishers, 698 East 64th Ave., Vancouver, B.C., V5X 2NC), page 42. ___ Ex-chief of ISI wants Pak to sell nuclear know-how ISLAMABAD: Former ISI Hamid Gul has advocated that the government must not hesitate to sell nuclear technology to pay its debts and solve its economic problems. In an open letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif before his visit to Washington, Hamid Gul said Pakistan must not accept any foreign pressure to withdraw its forces from India’s side of ...

IRANIAN HARDLINERS ATTACK STUDENT RALLY (AP) > Associated Press – DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Iranian police stormed a Tehran university dormitory Friday to arrest student leaders, provoking clashes that injured at least 20 people . . . Hundreds of police surrounded the dorm . . . From inside the building, students lobbed gasoline bombs . . . The violence was related to the tussle in Iran’s Islamic government between conservative clerics and moderates, led by President Mohammad Khatami . . .

BLAIR VOWS TO BAN FOX HUNTING