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Riot column in college newspaper prompts racist respone The Associated Press MANKATO, Minn. — When Myron Medcalf wrote a column in his college newspaper questioning whether white students somehow felt entitled to riot during homecoming, he expected a response. He said he didn't expect the racial insults left on his answering machine. "I wasn't stunned by the feedback. I'm used to feedback," said Medcalf, editor of Minnesota State University's student newspaper, The Reporter. "I didn't think it would get to the point of using racial slurs." Medcalf, who is black, wrote in the Oct. 9 edition of the newspaper that...

DEBKA-Net-Weekly reports exclusively that this key member of Saddam Hussein's administration, who was charged with his son's most sensitive missions, traveled to Jeddah at the beginning of this week, saying he needed to put through some gold transactions ahead of the war. From Jeddah, he flew to Beirut and disappeared. US intelligence sources report that Shaaban never really went to Beirut. He made his way under cover to Damascus Monday and was picked up by an unmarked plane for an unknown destination. As Uday's closest aide, he also managed a chain of official publications, including the authoritative Babel, and was...

Several weeks ago a retired Israeli general living in Hollywood and an American Islam expert met in Southern California to hash over the Middle East crisis on an L.A. radio program, and a significant change in Israeli policy ensued only days later. The timing may not have been coincidental.(p) “I gave suggestions about how Israel could stop the suicide bombing,” says Dr. Robert Morey, author of over 40 books dealing with false religions, and founder of the California Institute of Apologetics. Dr. Morey met with retired Israeli General Shimon Erem, one of the heroes of the Six Day War, in...