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Past may tell real story on sub sinking By DAVID O'REILLY Sunday 20 August 2000 Two horrifying maritime precedents may help military experts piece together the real story behind the sinking of the Kursk, the Russian submarine stricken on the deathly cold bed of the Barents Sea. While surfacing off the Devon coast of southern England in 1925, a British submarine, HMSM1, was run over by a merchant vessel, gouged open and sunk within minutes, with the loss of 65 lives. In 1955, HMSSidon went straight to the bottom when a liquid-fuel missile blew the bow off, driving the rear ...

05:50 PM ET 08/02/00 FBI Gets Deadline on E-Mail Inquiry By LAURIE ASSEO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ A federal judge Wednesday gave the FBI 10 days to respond to a privacy group's request for information about the government's ``Carnivore'' e-mail surveillance system. The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center is seeking documents and software concerning the inner workings of Carnivore, which is designed to monitor and capture e-mail going to or from people under criminal investigation. The privacy group had asked the FBI to grant expedited review of its request filed under the federal Freedom of Information Act. The ...

Details of E-Mail Spy System Sought By D. Ian Hopper Associated Press Writer Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2000; 11:13 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON –– A privacy group asked a federal judge Tuesday to order the release of details concerning the government's "Carnivore" e-mail surveillance system. The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center accused the FBI of not moving fast enough to act on the group's Freedom of Information Act request for the information. EPIC asked on July 12 that the information, including the inner workings of Carnivore, be fast-tracked through a portion of FOIA that allows for "expedited processing," a 10-day time limit ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MONDAY JULY 17, 2000 11:09:22 ET XXXXX HILLARY LETTER TO BILL: 'YOU WILL OUTGROW YOU GIRLS' **Exclusive** A handwritten letter from Hillary Rodham to her soon-to-be husband Bill Clinton outlined "goals" and detailed "a plan" for their relationship, a new bombshell book is set to disclose. "I do not understand why do you do the things you do to hurt me... I know all your little girls are around there," Rodham wrote Clinton, according to author Jerry Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer's book STATE OF A UNION: INSIDE THE COMPLEX MARRIAGE OF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON does not street ...

FROM THE NMD JPO *********SNIP*********** Subject: Change in vernacular Heads-up on following. Replace old term with new in all future correspondence. It would also behoove us to apply the new terminology when reprinting older documents. Recent administration guidance is to replace the term "rogue state" with the new, improved "state(s) of concern"...

Home Hotmail Search Shopping Money People & Chat China tests unmanned spacecraft Breakthrough could mean manned flights in months Reuters BEIJING, Nov. 21 — China on Sunday completed its first unmanned test of a spacecraft meant to carry astronauts, a breakthrough that could mean a manned mission is just months away. The craft orbited the earth 14 times during about 21 hours in space. CHINA IS striving to become the third country, after the United States and former Soviet Union, to put human beings in outer space. Its space program is a symbol of national strength in a mostly ...