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USA Today Found Hoax Before Writer Confessed Former USA Today correspondent Jack Kelley acknowledged through his attorney yesterday that his confession to deceiving his newspaper during an investigation of his reporting came only after being presented with evidence of what he had done. The newspaper, meanwhile, now says that Kelley was forced to quit. SNIP Although USA Today has examined several Kelley stories, the focus remains on his 1999 front-page report that human rights activist Natasa Kandic, who was not named in the article, had obtained "a Yugoslav army three-ring notebook" that "contains a direct order to a lieutenant to...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Tuesday, March 25, 1999 TAUSCHER CALLS AIR STRIKES NECESSARYURGES SUPPORT OF U.S. TROOPS IN BALKANS Washington, DC -- Congresswoman Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Contra Costa/Alameda Counties), a member of the House Armed Services Committee who visited with U.S. troops in the Balkans on a fact-finding mission last December, today called the air strikes against President Slobodan Milosovich’s military necessary. She issued the following statement: "Launching air strikes against President Milosovich is necessary to contain the problem in the Balkans and to stop the systematic killing of innocent men, women and children. We also need to put a...