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Nevada School District Settles Key Gay Abuse Case August 28, 2002 04:54 PM ET By Andrew Quinn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Nevada school district will pay almost $500,000 to an openly gay student who was repeatedly bashed and brutalized in Reno public schools in a settlement deal signed on Wednesday that lawyers said could set policy precedents for schools around the country. Derek Henkle said he was beaten, spat upon, called names and even threatened with a lasso during his years at three Reno high schools in a campaign of intimidation and harassment that literally left him fearing for...

Blow for Bush as Russia agrees £27bn Iraq deal By David Rennie in Washington and Ben Aris in Moscow (Filed: 19/08/2002) Russia has dealt a potentially serious blow to American attempts to isolate Iraq after it announced a £27 billion trade agreement with Saddam Hussein. The agreement, which will have to be approved by the United Nations, wraps together dozens of separate deals involving oil, electrical energy, chemical products, irrigation, railroad construction and transport, over the next five years, officials in Moscow said yesterday. Russian companies already dominate Iraq's limited oil export trade under the UN oil-for-food programme. Oleg...

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N Korea in talks with Russia over buying arms Russian and North Korean experts have held talks which could lead to a boost in Russian arms sales to Pyongyang. ITAR-TASS news agency quoted the unidentified official of the Russian Committee for Technical Military Cooperation as saying North Korea was in no position to buy large quantities of modern weapons. But it would have to update its out of date equipment, he said. Russia would be in an advantageous position because North Korean weapons were largely of Soviet origin. Russian specialists say the North Korean air force is most in need...

Premiers, governors promote open border Red tape, security delays blamed for fall in Canada-U.S. border traffic By Alexander Panetta Canadian Press QUEBEC — North America will lose out to Europe in the new global economy unless Canada and the United States open their border, delegates to a gathering of New England governors and Eastern Canadian premiers said today. North America is hampered by red tape at the border while other parts of the world are erasing barriers, said the leaders attending the opening session of the two-day annual conference. "If we're going to maintain the standard of living and the...

F-16s trail Saudi prince's jet over state By Dick Foster, Rocky Mountain News August 27, 2002 A half-dozen military groups and federal agencies joined forces in the mysterious interception of a private airliner carrying a Saudi prince to Grand Junction Monday afternoon. Two Colorado Air National Guard F-16 jet fighters were scrambled from Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora early Monday afternoon and shadowed the plane to Grand Junction, said NORAD spokesman Maj. Barry Venable. When it was over, none of the agencies, which included the FBI, Federal Aviation Administration, NORAD, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Transportation Security Administration and the...

Hijacking "Spaceship Earth" by William Norman Grigg Claiming that Earth is a spaceship with limited resources requiring central control, globalists are steering humanity into the black hole of UN-dominated world government. [T]he ethical system which will dominate the world-state will be shaped primarily to favor the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity.... And for the rest — those swarms of black and brown and yellow people who do not come into the needs of efficiency? Well, the world is not a charitable institution, and I take it they will have to go. The whole tenor...

U.S. Report Faulted Anthrax Prober FBI Official in Charge of Case Avoided Discipline Over Ruby Ridge Study By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 24, 2002; Page A02 The official in charge of the FBI's anthrax probe was accused of misconduct and recommended for discipline for his role in a flawed review of the deadly Ruby Ridge standoff, but a Justice Department official later concluded that punishment was unwarranted, according to newly revealed information about the case. Van A. Harp, a 32-year FBI veteran who now heads the bureau's Washington field office, allegedly "committed misconduct" by helping to...

Fox hopes to reschedule Texas visit Staff and wire reports MEXICO CITY -- A day after Mexico's leader said his cancellation of an August visit to Houston and other Texas cities signaled his willingness to defend his countrymen's human rights, President Vicente Fox hopes to reschedule the visit, according to a spokeswoman. Fox called off the visit Aug. 14 in protest of that day's execution of Mexican citizen Javier Suarez Medina, 33, who had been condemned for the 1988 murder of a Dallas undercover police officer. "When you have commitments, when you believe in values, you live by them," Fox...

For Immediate Release Aug 20, 2002 Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 JUDICIAL WATCH SUES BILL CLINTON , CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FOR INSTIGATING ATTEMPTED IRS AUDIT Smoking Gun White House Document Shows Clinton Illegally Influenced IRS sion to Audit Judicial Watch (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Bill Clinton and top Congressional Democrats (including Charles Rangel, Martin Frost, Jim Moran, Tom Harkin, John Lewis, and Richard Neal) for instigating a political audit of Judicial Watch by the IRS. Documents produced to Judicial Watch by...

THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL(Prince Charles Estate will be 666yrs old in 2003) The Duchy of Cornwall's main purpose is to cover the cost of the heir apparent's public and private life. The Duchy of Cornwall is one of the largest and oldest landed estates in Britain. It was created in 1337 by Edward III for his son, Prince Edward (the Black Prince). A charter ruled that each future Duke of Cornwall would be the eldest surviving son of the monarch - and the heir to the throne. Since the 14th century the Duchy's main purpose has been to provide an...

Background / Rethinking the unthinkable, amid Iraq fears Thursday, August 15, 2002 By Bradley Burston, Ha'aretz Correspondent Beset by a proverbial 10 plagues of military, economic and social woes, Israel is feverishly preparing for the specter of the real thing: an ancient, extinct disease that could be reincarnated by scientists and delivered by the cutting-edge of Saddam Hussein's arsenal. And if the specter of a smallpox attack were not enough, Israelis awoke Wednesday to a new mega-worry: the knowledge that the Atomic, Biological and Chemical warfare gas mask kits that every Israeli has kept squirreled away in back cupboards since...

BLAIR GUARD IN HANGING Thursday 15 August 2002 A SPECIAL Branch bodyguard to Tony Blair and his family was found hanged from the banisters at home, an inquest heard yesterday. Det Insp Bill Lloyd, 47, was discovered by his second wife Gillian with a car tow rope around his neck. She said in a statement: "He never suggested or intimated taking his own life ever." There was no note. A police colleague said Mr Lloyd had admitted feeling "pretty down". The day before he died in May a doctor had prescribed "happy" pills. Mr Lloyd, of Camberley, Surrey, had been...

GPS devices that fight crime Tracking your kids — and the ex-con next door An 8-year-old girl shows off a new GPS watch, one of many new devices that aim to give worried parents some peace of mind. By Lisa Napoli MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR Aug. 8 — With all these lunatics kidnapping kids, here’s an idea: Let’s install a GPS device in every newborn human, dog and kitten. That way, when some creep comes along, or when fireworks scare off the family pet, we’ll be in a Minority Report pre-crime busting future where we won’t have a minute of worry....

Child-smuggling ring members arrested in Houston Aug. 12, 2002, 6:36PM Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Immigration and Naturalization Service has broken up an international ring that smuggled hundreds of children into the United States from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, agency officials said today. The ring began operating in 1994 and mainly brought to the United States children whose parents already were in the country illegally. Parents paid the smugglers $5,000 per child, INS officials said. The ring was the largest child-smuggling operation ever broken up by the INS. INS special agents from Los Angeles and Washington arrested three alleged...

'Saddam's Cubs' Camps Target Youths Sun Aug 11, 4:40 PM ET By WAIEL FALEH, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq, (AP) - Thousands of boys in Iraq have swapped soccer practice and tennis lessons for light-weapons training and religion lessons as they prepare to defend Iraq, they say, from "our enemies." Firing pistols and AK-47s while studying Islam and history, 1,800 boys aged between 13 and 16 are getting three weeks of training at "Saddam's Cubs Training Camp" in a southern Baghdad suburb, one of about 30 such camps scattered across the country. "We are sharp swords in the hand...

(Ooops! )BMW to correct Web site omitting Israel By MICHAEL FREUND In response to a flurry of protests, BMW has agreed to correct its Middle East division's Web site, which showed "Palestine" in place of Israel, a company spokesman told The Jerusalem Post. Rob Mitchell, the BMW Group's North American director of corporate communications, said on Friday the company had received "quite a number" of calls from people objecting to the omission of Israel from a map on the Internet indicating the location of BMW dealers in the Middle East. "The minute we got the calls, we contacted our colleagues...

In the latest of his online terrorist dispatches, The Observer's Chief reporter reveals another embarrasing failure for the security services.The Americans believe that Abu Al-Haili helped to arrange OBL escape from Tora Bora.So why did security services allow him to slip through the net in Tooting, South London. According to well-placed sources within the Islamist community in the UK Abu Zubair al-Haili - who the Americans believe helped Osama bin Laden escape the American assault on Afghanistan - was living in the UK until shortly before the September 11th attacks.

Pope backs Mid-East peace force (UN MILITARY FORCE) Sunday, 11 August, 2002, 16:04 GMT 17:04 UK The Pope visited Jerusalem in March, 2000 Pope John Paul ll has lent his support to the creation of an international peacekeeping force to try to bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In one of his strongest denunciations of the continuing violence, the Pope said the international community should take "a more determined role on the ground" to help bring about peace. Speaking to pilgrims at his summer residence in Castel Candolfo, near Rome, the pontiff called on political leaders on both sides...

US reacts to `one country on each side' DAMAGE CONTROL: MAC Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen is in the US to explain what President Chen Shui-bian meant by his controversial remarks on Saturday By Charles Snyder STAFF REPORTER IN WASHINGTON The US, in its first detailed response to President Chen Shui-bian's (³¯¤ô«ó) "one country on each side" of the Taiwan Strait statement, has reiterated its opposition to Taiwan independence and has indicated that it is satisfied with Taipei's explanations that Chen's statements did not constitute a unilateral declaration of independence. White House spokesman Sean McCormack said that the George W. Bush administration...