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SEATTLE (AP) - A man struck the city's mayor in the face during a community celebration Saturday afternoon, breaking bones under his right eye, authorities said. Police wrestled the man to the ground and arrested him. Witnesses said he hit Mayor Paul Schell with a megaphone, KOMO-TV News reported. Schell was in stable condition at Harborview Medical Center, undergoing examination for a possible concussion, said Dick Lilly, the mayor's press spokesman.

It is obvious to all, but one or two dumb heads, that with the type of people who have come into power that a revolution is necessary. It is also obvious that we are not ready. As a rallying point and a organizational symbol a Flag is necessary. Some have tried to rally around the old 'Stars And Bars" of the former Confederate Government. It does not work. What is suggested is a Flag from the American Revolution of 1776. The Flag with the Circle of Stars and Thirteen stripes, the Flag with the number 76 surrounded with Thirteen Stars(as ...

Zimbabwe Squatters Kill White Farmer HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Squatters occupying white-owned land shot to death a farmer and abducted four others, farmers leaders said Sunday, a killing that could deepen the crisis over Zimbabwe's tense land standoff. David Stevens was abducted from his occupied property near Macheke, 75 miles east of Harare and driven into the bush where he was shot dead, said Commercial Farmers Union officials. Four of Stevens' neighbors who went to his assistance after he was confronted by squatters Saturday were abducted and their whereabouts were not immediately known, the union said. Another neighbor, John Osborne, ...

Last gasp?      "Californians passed Proposition 187 by a 60-40 margin [in 1994]. The proposition would have expelled illegal aliens from public schools and cut off all benefits for illegal aliens except for emergency medical treatment. . . .      "Pro-illegal alien groups immediately set about to overturn the will of the voters. State legislator Art Torres addressed a group of Hispanic organizations assembled at the University of California Riverside and said, 'Power is not given to you. You have to take it. Remember Proposition 187 is the last gasp of white America.' . . .      Activist Joe Sanchez declared, 'We may ...

PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. VOTING (A) Neither the Government of the United States nor the Government of the Several States shall allow any citizen to vote in any election who has not attained the age of 21 years. (B) For purposes of voting in any election in the Several States a citizen must have continuously resided in a State for one year, and in the county or parish for at least one hundred eighty days prior to the election. (C) For purposes of any election held in any of the Several States, or in any ...

"Their job is to implement my vision." Governor says judges should back his views; Experts view opinion on appointees as threat to constitutional concepts WASHINGTON -- California Gov. Gray Davis, who earlier angered legislative leaders by saying their job is to "implement my vision," insisted yesterday that judges he appoints should "reflect the views I've expressed" or resign. "I've let every judge know that, while they have to follow the law . . . they're there because I appointed them, and they need to keep faith with my electoral mandate," said Davis, who was in Washington for the National Governor's ...

ARARE, Zimbabwe - Former guerrillas wielding axes, spears, and clubs invaded white-owned farms across Zimbabwe yesterday, with authorities doing nothing to stop them. A farmers' union said anarchy would take hold if no one protected the farmers. Landless blacks led by former guerrillas from the bush war that ended white rule in Zimbabwe in 1980 occupied at least 36 farms, the Commercial Farmers' Union said yesterday. Zimbabwe was known as Rhodesia before independence. The invaders threatened white farmers and their families and broke fences and gates, the union said. One elderly couple was assaulted and held hostage in their ...

ARARE, Zimbabwe - Former guerrillas wielding axes, spears, and clubs invaded white-owned farms across Zimbabwe yesterday, with authorities doing nothing to stop them. A farmers' union said anarchy would take hold if no one protected the farmers. Landless blacks led by former guerrillas from the bush war that ended white rule in Zimbabwe in 1980 occupied at least 36 farms, the Commercial Farmers' Union said yesterday. Zimbabwe was known as Rhodesia before independence. The invaders threatened white farmers and their families and broke fences and gates, the union said. One elderly couple was assaulted and held hostage in their ...

Jan 6, 2000 - 06:33 AM Mexican Consul Calls for Boycott of Anti-Hispanic Businesses The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - The Mexican consul here said Hispanics should boycott Georgia companies that mistreat them and suggested a national boycott of shops that do not offer services in Spanish. The comments by Consul Teodoro Maus were unusual because consuls rarely take a strong stand on issues not directly affecting their government, political scientists say. Maus was interviewed on WPLO-AM, a Spanish-language radio station in suburban Lawrenceville, on Dec. 31. His comments were reported Wednesday in the Mexico City daily newspaper Reforma. "If ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe vowed to seize land from wh***s and not pay them anything for it as the government had previously promised. "We have waited long enough and now is the time to take back our land," Mugabe said Saturday night at a ruling party convention. He said his party would scrap the constitution's "stupid clause" that guarantees compensation to landowners. Mugabe's new position is likely to estrange his government further from international investors, We***rn donor nations and financial institutions supporting market-led reforms in the ailing economy of this southern African country. Mugabe told delegates ...

Dec 17, 1999 - 05:47 AM COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - An HIV-positive Army sergeant has been sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of forcing sex on another male sergeant at Fort Jackson. Sgt. Cornelius Abner of Panama City, Fla., was convicted Thursday of forcible sodomy, breaking and entering, disobeying a lawful order and dereliction of duty. He received a dishonorable discharge, was demoted to private and must forfeit all pay. A military jury acquitted him of a fifth charge - aggravated assault likely to produce death or grievous bodily harm. Abner, 34, who had entered an innocent ...

Judge: Felons Can Hold OfficeUpdated 5:23 AM ET December 3, 1999 (CHICAGO) -- A judge has ruled that an Illinois state statue prohibiting convicted felons from holding municipal office is unconstitutional. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Aaron Jaffe (jaf'-ee) dismissed a lawsuit seeking to remove Country Club Hills Alderman Victor Watts from office because he was convicted of armed robbery in 1975, when he was 18-years-old. The judge said the statute violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment because it failed to differentiate between youthful offenders and hardened career criminals. The state attorney general's office says it has ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Atheists are threatening to file suit to remove a 60-foot cross from a cliff that overlooks this city. Chicago talk-show host Rob Sherman together with the group Idaho Atheists say they intend to file suit in federal court next year to have the lighted cross removed from Table Rock. ``It's blatantly unconstitutional,'' Sherman, a former spokesman for American Atheists, said in today's editions of The New York Times. The group promotes separation of church and state. The Idaho Jaycees built the cross on public land in 1956 and purchased the plot for $100 in 1972 to ...

-- Officials are looking into charges of animal cruelty at a Willmar poultry farm. "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" says it has a video of workers beating and killing turkeys. Company officials say the "culling" of turkeys is an industry-wide practice used to eliminate the sick, weak and lame. The case has been turned over to the county sheriff's office to see if there's any evidence of a crime.

(AUGUSTA) -- Voters may be asked next year to grapple with the controversial issue of doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients with less than six months to live. A group calling itself ""Mainers for Death with Dignity" has submitted more than 48-thousand signatures on petitions, clearing the way for the issue to go on the ballot next November if the legislature doesn't approve it first.

Phone sex op gets money for masturbation injuryUpdated 1:33 PM ET November 19, 1999By Lisa Baertlein MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida phone sex operator has won a workers' compensation settlement claiming she was injured after regularly masturbating at work, her lawyer said. Attorney Steven Slootsky told Reuters he was not sure whether the Fort Lauderdale woman's claim was the first of its kind, but it certainly was out of the ordinary. Slootsky said his client agreed to a "minimal settlement" earlier this month. He declined to disclose the amount. During the course of her claim for workers' compensation benefits, the ...

MONROE, Ohio –– Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt has bought an Ohio site for a Hustler mega-store. But local officials here in Butler county aren't happy about it. "If he is going to come to Butler County, be ready to bring along a couple of lawyers," said Butler County Prosecutor John Holcombe. Responded Flynt, "Not only will I bring two lawyers, I'll bring a dozen." Flynt said Friday that he purchased the one-acre commercial site and that he plans to open an adult-oriented store that could be operating early next year. The $300,000 purchase was made by Flynt's brother, ...

Victim urges leniency as pedophile is sentenced in N.J. By Associated Press, 11/13/99 REEHOLD, N.J. - A pedophile who admitted molesting teen-age killer Sam Manzie was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday, despite a courtroom mercy plea by the victim. In his first public statement about his relationship with Stephen P. Simmons, Manzie called Simmons a good role model. Manzie, 17, is serving a 70-year prison term for the 1997 killing of 11-year-old Eddie Werner. Manzie met Simmons through an Internet chat room when Manzie was 14. Simmons, 45, of Holbrook, N.Y., had pleaded guilty to criminal sexual contact ...

A bit of history was made in upstate New York last week, as voters in Plattsburgh elected the state's first openly gay mayor. City Council member Dan Stewart (R) defeated longtime Democratic incumbent Clyde Rabideau in what New York Gov. George E. Pataki (R) called "a great win." "I've been saying all along that the Republican Party is an inclusive, open and tolerant party," Pataki told the Plattsburgh Press-Republican. "The fact that Dan is openly gay, I think, is not going to affect in any way his ability to govern the city." Gay and lesbian activists in Washington hailed ...

Head to toe exam: USA 1999 William J. Bennett has an updated survey of social pressure points that he calls the Index of Leading Cultural Indicators: American Society at the End of the Twentieth Century. It is engrossing. Some of it one is glad to see -- reductions in welfare, violent crime, abortion, AIDS, divorce and suicide; upswings in SAT scores and charitable giving. But yes, some startling data on the other side of the ledger. Since 1960, our population has increased by 48 percent. Foreign-born Americans have about doubled since 1960 (from 5.4 percent to 9.7). Even taking ...