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37921 arm teachers! -- rank: 1000

[No this isn't an Onion parody of a WSJ editorial.] Wall Street Journal - May 21, 1999 Arm Teachers To Stop Shootings By Massad Ayoob, director of the Lethal Force Institute in Concord, N.H., which trains police officers and military personnel in self-defense techniques. The echoes had barely faded from the gunfire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., before the gun-control lobby began shouting for more restrictive laws, a chorus that is sure to grow in the wake of yesterday's shooting ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 21 06:42:06 PDT 1999

37922 hospital beds out windows -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - 21 May 1999 Bomb hits hospital and envoys' homes By Toby Helm in Brussels and Lara Santoro in Belgrade NATO refused to confirm yesterday that one of its bombs had hit a hospital in Belgrade killing three people as well as damaging the nearby Swedish, Spanish and Norwegian ambassadors' residencies. But the alliance, which did admit that one of its bombs went 1,500 ft off course over the city early yesterday, was criticised by neutral Sweden. As hospital beds were seen hanging ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 20:38:06 PDT 1999

37923 Serbs dug in; Blair isolated -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - May 21 1999 Relentless bombing fails to cut Serb strength in Kosovo BY MICHAEL EVANS, TOM BALDWIN AND PHILIP WEBSTER SERB troops in Kosovo have suffered only "light casualties" after eight weeks of Nato bombing, although the daily attacks are substantially restricting their movements, Ministry of Defence sources admitted yesterday. Despite the report of up to 1,000 Serb soldiers deserting and evidence of deteriorating morale, the size of the military presence in Kosovo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 20:36:02 PDT 1999

37924 No subject -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - May 21, 1999 Plan for early end to the bombing divides Nato By Stephen Castle in Brussels NEW strains emerged within Nato yesterday over the air war in Yugoslavia as the alliance said it would consider an Italian plan for a pause in the bombing. At the same time Nato was embarrassed again when an alliance jet blasted a hospital in Belgrade, killing four people. The Swedish ambassador's residence was also damaged. The blunder followed earlier accidental strikes on the Chine ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 20:31:33 PDT 1999

37925 Clinton-Blair fight -- rank: 1000

The Guardian (London) - May 21, 1999 Clinton clash with Blair President tells PM he must halt rumours of rift over Kosovo By Martin Kettle in Washington An angry Bill Clinton has told Tony Blair this week that he should 'get control' of people who could be encouraging press reports of splits between London and Washington on the Kosovo campaign. Reports of the unusually difficult 90-minute telephone call between the two allies surfaced yesterday in some US newspapers and have been confirmed by th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 20:29:44 PDT 1999

37926 Star Wars deployment -- rank: 1000

From: Office of the Majority Leader <DeliveringFreedom at mail.house.gov> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: Missile Defense, Phone Taxes and COPS Thank you for subscribing to e-mail updates from Freedom Works, home page for the Office of the House Majority Leader, Dick Armey, http://www.freedom.gov Here's what's new this week: - Congress Sends Missile Defense Bill to President Should the president sign the missile defense bill passed today, he would agree through his signa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 16:18:35 PDT 1999

37927 RUSCO up 16 -- rank: 1000

EastWest Institute Russian Regional Report Vol. 4, No. 19, 20 May 1999 Russian Cohesion Index: -26 (up 16 this week) Disintegration............L....T............0..............Democratic Federalism (T = this week; L = last week; 0 = 17 March) *****See the RRR website (http://www.iews.org/rrrabout.nsf) for a graphic display of the Russian Cohesion Index since 17 March.***** +++++ Yeltsin and the State Duma resolved their differences peacefully, avoiding a destabilizing impeachment process and qui ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 15:33:44 PDT 1999

37928 Fortress Europe -- rank: 1000

From: Openeurope-owner <eurofort-approval at tao.ca> Subject: (en) Openeurope-list founded (de, it, sv, fi) OPENEUROPE-LIST FOUNDED The topic of the Eurofortress-list is to exchange views and news about the struggles for free Europe, against deportations, detention centers and the increasing police control over people both sides of the union borders. The list is maintained from Finland, and it's main purpose is to create and facilitate program for a planned countermeeting against the Speci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 15:29:54 PDT 1999

37929 the war's PR man -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Tom L.] <http://www.edelman.com/bio-ldac.html> Edelman Washington LESLIE DACH Vice Chairman, Edelman Worldwide General Manager <mailto: leslie_dach at edelman.com> Leslie Dach is the Vice Chairman of Edelman Worldwide and manages Edelman's Washington office. He also directs the company's global Public Affairs practice. Dach has twenty years of experience in politics, lobbying and communications. At Edelman, Dach has directed some of the agency's most visible public affairs ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 15:28:21 PDT 1999

37930 Where's BB King and Pol Pot? -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >However, the valorization of the mixed (ethnic) type can >consolidate an antipathy or be reason for consolidating antipathy towards >those who are perceived to be purely of the disturbing (race) type. An interesting article in the Sunday NYT about Ivy, Princeton's snootiest eating club, said that while Africans are welcome, even desirable, an African-American from New York isn't. How's that matter to racialization? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 14:31:59 PDT 1999

37931 war gets new publicist -- rank: 1000

[from Christopher Caldwell's columnn in this week's New York Press...] Hollow Holocaust: The President's Dangerous Humbug Las week, just before a night of bombing that would send 100 civilians to their graves, Defense Secretary William Cohen crowed that Serbian Army officers were sending their families out of Yugoslavia. This was evidence, Cohen said, that the Serbs were seeing "the handwriting on the wall." But soldiers surrender when they see the handwriting on the wall. They send th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 14:15:06 PDT 1999

37932 Fwd: URPE summer conference -- rank: 1000

[For further info, or if you're interested in presenting something, write Susan Fleck <susan_fleck at yahoo.com>] Political Economy, the environment and economic crisis August 21-24, 1999 Camp Chinqueka Bantam, Connecticut, USA The volatility of today's markets, the world recession, and US trade wars (and other wars) are the result of growth policies gone awry in the race to produce for profit. The role of responsible stewardship of the world's resources and their just allocation is left b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 14:08:34 PDT 1999

37933 War Merchants -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: >It's boom time once again! Just like the good old days. > >JSC > >TOP 50 PENTAGON CONTRACTORS > > Prime >Rank Defense Contractor Contract Amt. > ($ 000s) >- - - >11 CARLYLE GROUP, THE $1,328,834 Frank Carlucci's investment bank. What do they do for the Pentagon? >14 HUMANA INC $867,453 What? They contracting out for managed care? Twice as many dollars as Rockwell? >25 ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION $435,264 Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 08:33:02 PDT 1999

37934 Social Security: Can the Trustees Be Trusted? -- rank: 1000

Social Security: Can the Trustees Be Trusted? [by Mark Weisbrot] The debate over Social Security has never really been about the numbers. Almost all of the participants have chosen to accept the projections of Social Security's Trustees, and make their arguments from there. It's hard enough to straighten out the massive confusion that Social Security's enemies have sown for all these years without your audience starting to look oxygen- deprived. So who wants to challenge the Trustees' intermedia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 08:24:03 PDT 1999

37935 The weakness of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook quoted Chomsky: > NC: I don't agree with that at all. I mean, look at the history: > During the 1980's there was overwhelming opposition to US > atrocities in Central America. As a matter of fact, opposition was > so strong that the Reagan Administration had to back off and resort > to using international terrorist networks like the Contras to carry > out its policies. And there were no Americans in body bags then. > Today there's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 20 08:15:30 PDT 1999