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WINCHESTER, Tenn. -- With a camera rolling and a live broadcast in progress, a well-known Franklin County cable access television show host was arrested last night on charges of harassment and resisting arrest. TV-CN owner David Parrish was taken into custody by Franklin County Sheriff's officers at 7:21 p.m., according to Franklin County Correctional Officer Scott McKay. Authorities would not elaborate on the charges. McKay said bail will be set this morning, and TV-CN broadcast a notice later in the evening that Parrish would appear in court at 9 a.m. today. Just after 7 p.m. yesterday, Parrish was surprised ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) -- The Panamanian government will invite Cuban leader Fidel Castro to attend ceremonies marking the U.S. handover of the Panama Canal in December, the country's ambassador to Cuba said. Ambassador Marcos Alarcon told reporters that ``independent of ideological differences,'' Panama maintains excellent relations with Cuba. The United States, which has administered the canal for almost a century, will transfer full control of the waterway to Panama on Dec. 31, in accordance with treaties signed in 1977. The last four U.S. military bases in Panama will also be transferred, ending the U.S. military presence in the ...

Organizers of next year's Billy Graham Crusade in Nashville are concerned that the event may not gain the support of black ministers. Some black pastors say they aren't backing a $2.5 million fund-raising campaign for Graham's crusade because they don't believe he shares their concerns about race. "I don't see how my congregation will get any real benefits from the Billy Graham Crusade," said the Rev. James Thomas, pastor of Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church. "He did not appeal to us in his younger days, and certainly not in these times. "He did not speak on behalf of the ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. –– An 89-year-old widow who said her husband made her buy day-old bread as he secretly saved $5.7 million is fighting to keep some of the money from going to the University of Missouri. Olive Deal, who lives in a nursing home here, said she was unaware her husband, John, had amassed a fortune until he fell ill in 1997. Deal, who died in September 1998, established four trusts at the universities of Missouri and Kansas. Three, totaling $2.3 million, cannot be revoked. However, Mrs. Deal wants at least one-third of a $3.4 million trust at the ...

COMMENTARY Censoring religious speech by students may be legal, but is it the right thing to do? Earlier this month a Florida student was told by his principal to delete a religious reference in his back-to-school speech. The offending passage gave thanks "to the almighty Jesus Christ" for bringing everyone safely back to school. Rather than edit Jesus out, the student decided not to give the speech. Is this kind of censorship by school administrators constitutional? Maybe. A number of court cases, including a 1988 Supreme Court decision, appear to give school officials a good deal of control over ...

Newsroom / Today's News July 31, 1999 Story originally published on July 26, 99 Exercises Give Reservists Rare Opportunities Units Are Filling Active-Duty Roles Around The Globe By Gordon Lubold Times staff writer A slew of exercises this fall will keep the Marine Corps Reserve trotting around the globe and put reservists in roles usually left to active-duty Marines. Reservists will travel to Australia, Egypt, Aruba and Denmark within the next year, marking a significant increase in the number of exercises the Reserve usually handles. In fact, operational tempo is up 18 percent this fiscal year to last, Reserve officials ...

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178 Seconds to Live How long can a pilot who has little or no instrument training expect to live after he flies into bad weather and loses visual contact? Researchers at the University of Illinois did some tests and came up with some very interesting data. Twenty student "guinea pigs" flew into simulated instrument weather, and all went into graveyard spirals or rollercoasters [a tribute to the U of I flight training program??]. The outcome differed in only one respect - the time required till control was lost. The interval ranged from 480 seconds to 20 seconds. The average time ...

1915 GMT, 990708 Yugoslavia – Residents of Kosovo are reporting that the Albanian mafia is running rampant. On July 8, citizens of Kosovoka Mitrovica reported to the Agence France-Presse that they have seen the mafia smuggling drugs, cars and hi-fi equipment. Many members of the mafia are reportedly former "Segurimi," the infamous Albanian secret police during the communist era. Locals claim the mafia members are exploiting the misfortune of the Kosovar citizens and evading the attention of the Kosovo peacekeeping force, KFOR, successfully.

The mother of an Arlington teenager will never forget the phone call she received from Williamsburg Middle School, where her daughter was in the eighth grade. "I'd like to invite you to a meeting about girls at risk," said Latanja Thomas, the eighth-grade school counselor. "What risk?" the mother asked. "Eating disorders?" "No." "Drugs?" "No." "Well, what is it?" "Oral sex." "I about dropped the phone," the mother recalled. "I was stunned." So were other parents of girls at Williamsburg who took similar calls that evening and showed up for a meeting in the school library a few nights ...

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, July 7—NATO is reviewing an "awkward" decision to assign Russian peacekeeping troops to a Kosovo town where Dutch forces believe they have cornered some suspected Serbian war criminals, alliance officials said today. Several thousand ethnic Albanian residents of Orahovac, in western Kosovo, gathered in the streets today to protest NATO's announcement that it would send newly arrived Russian troops to replace the Dutch. The ethnic Albanians say that at least two war crime suspects are among 3,000 Serbs battened down in an isolated neighborhood that has been guarded for weeks by Dutch troops and tanks. Dutch officers ...

Visitor From The Past by Thelen Paulk I had a dream the other night that I didn't understand. A figure walking through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat, and speaking low to me he said: We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for ...

M O S C O W (AP) NATO AND Russian negotiators resolved a dispute today over the role of Russian peacekeepers in Kosovo, clearing the way for more Russian troops to be sent to the Yugoslav province. Russian planes were likely to resume ferrying troops to Kosovo beginning Tuesday as a result of the agreement between NATO and Russian military officials, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said. He spoke on customary condition of anonymity. Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO's supreme commander, confirmed today in an interview with The Associated Press that the differences have been resolved. He said the Russians ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- While relishing what some call a revolutionary triumph for air power, senior Air Force officers and strategists are working to ensure the Kosovo campaign doesn't become a model for future wars. These specialists worry that NATO's victory in the Balkans could set unrealistic expectations for airstrikes and legitimize faulty strategic decisions. They are urging that policy-makers avoid repeating the ``war by committee'' waged by NATO, and the gradual application of air power that they say prolonged the conflict in the Balkans. Some of these specialists also say that if the United States again participates in an ...

The Clinton National Security Scandal and Coverup Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Senate, June 23, 1999 "I fully realize that the majority of Americans will not believe me. They have continued to believe our President even after he has demonstrated over and over that he has no regard for the truth." "The Cox Report has shed light on the fact that the Clinton administration has actually helped China in its technology acquisition efforts or made it easier for them to commit thefts and espionage." Mr. President, I ask that you listen again. I am going to pick up on the incredible ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JUNE 30, 1999 17:52:22 ET XXXXX THEATERS LETTING MINORS BUY TICKETS TO 'SOUTH PARK' RAUNCH! Just weeks after President Bill Clinton announced that movie theaters around the country would require young people to show photo IDs before they could buy tickets to R rated movies, it is being reported that underage kids have been easily getting in to see PARAMOUNT's new shock movie SOUTH PARK! The NEW YORK POST on Thursday is planning to report that New York area theaters are letting underage kids in to see the fuss film. One POST reporter went ...

Party Time: World to End Next Week Nostradamus said so According to a prophesy of Nostradamus, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will wreak their destruction in July 1999 - next Sunday, to be precise - and many millennial pessimists believe it. Have we really got five days left to live? asks Nigel Farndale NEXT Sunday will be a big day for War, Death, Famine and Plague. After a light breakfast and a flick through the morning papers, the Four Horsemen will saddle up and go about their apocalyptic business like there's no tomorrow. Which, of course, there won't be. ...

District Prepares for Y2K System Failures By Eric Lipton Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 28, 1999; Page A1 The District government, recognizing that its year 2000 repair program likely will not be completed on time, is planning a massive New Year's Eve mobilization of emergency personnel and other staff to ensure that critical city services are not interrupted if computer systems fail. Police will be stationed at more than 120 locations across the city, working 12-hour shifts, to take walk-in requests for emergency services. Twenty-one "warming centers," each supplied with food, water and cots, will open. School crossing guards ...

NASCAR LEGEND SONOMA, Calif. -- Former stock car star Richard Petty is recuperating from an attack of bleeding ulcers that put him in a hospital earlier this week, according to his son, Kyle. Kyle Petty, who is competing in today's Save Mart-Kragen 350 Winston Cup race, said a family friend had stopped by to visit his father. "He said, 'I don't feel so good,' and by the time he said 'I don't feel so good,' he just fainted." The friend got him to a hospital in Greensboro, N.C., where it was determined that he had lost 40 percent of his ...

June 27, 1999 THE DAMAGE In the Rubble That Was Kosovo, Damage Tally Has Barely Begun By IAN FISHER PEC, Yugoslavia -- Rexhina Gashi, a 68-year-old Albanian woman too stubborn to leave her block, says she stood on her balcony and for two months watched the Serbs tear her city apart. First came the looting. On her street, a once-graceful row of houses and shops with wooden roofs that runs from the main square here to a white mosque, it was mostly soldiers and their girlfriends. But some Serbian civilians drove up with cars, she said, cramming their trunks full. ...