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WASHINGTON (AP) - In a phone call between President Nixon and the man who would become "Deep Throat," the president instructed FBI official Mark Felt to aggressively pursue the case against the gunman who shot George Wallace. There must be no public suspicion of a cover-up, Nixon said, in the wounding of the Alabama governor who was then running for president. The May 15, 1972, phone call is believed to be the only tape-recorded conversation between Nixon and Felt, the No. 2 FBI official. Nixon expressed satisfaction when Felt told him the suspect had some cuts and bruises. "I hope...

America is bitterly divided between left and right with each side showing blatant distrust of the other. Liberals are concerned that Republicans are going to create a Khomeini-style theocracy, robbing women of their right to choose an abortion and shoving God down people's throats. Conservatives are equally frightened that liberals want to make America into a heathen and sinful Bohemian cesspool. About the only thing the two sides agree on is the preservation of the Union. No one is advocating that America split into red and blue states. Even if we do not come together, we dare not tear the...

It was my first time to actually call C-Span yesterday, but that's not important. What is is that I want this to be a record somewhere before no one hears or knows about it, a la the Kennedy files or Hoffa's location. A young girl called in to C-Span later on after I had spoken. She was young and idealistic, and said she had just returned from Baghdad, Iraq, having gone over there for a Christian NGO to see what was really going on for herself. She said that all over the hotel where foreign reporters stay in Baghdad a...

Okay, I am incredibly frustrated with my social skills and I have decided to run to FR for help; I would be shocked if some good advice is not given. Anyway, I have always been a quiet person and never had any real close friends; I had a few kids I played with, but that is about it. In my high school years, I never hung out with anyone. Now, in my freshman year in college, things are somewhat better. I have gone on my first date with a girl and also hung out with this interesting guy once. But,...

Conversation on the BeachBy Solly Ganor, Herzliya, Israel, Friday, December 6, 2002 About half a mile from where I live in Herzliya, on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean, stands an old mosque. It was built during the Middle Ages and a Moslem holy man is buried on that site. The holy man's name was Sidney Ally and that is how the mosque is known to this day. The beach bellow, stretches all the way to Herzliya to the South, and Netanya to the North. I often go there for walks because from its heights one has a panoramic view...

Federal investigators checking 3 men who reported ``America would cry on 9/13.'' By DAVID GREEN AND DAVID KIDWELL dgreen@herald.com TIM CHAPMAN/MIAMI HERALD A bomb squad member attaches a string to an item in one of the suspected cars on Alligator Alley where the two cars were stopped and three men were detained. A robot is at the back of the cars. Three medical students of Middle Eastern descent who were stopped as suspected terrorists on Alligator Alley early Friday morning remained detained after they were overheard in a Georgia restaurant vowing to make America ``cry on 9/13.'' Federal sources involved...