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Signed by 1.65 million Japanese citizens, the petition was presented to President Clinton on November 22, 1993 by the parents of Yoshihiro Hattori, who had just finished a year-long gun control campaign throughout the United States. The Brady Bill, which mandates a five-day waiting period and background check for those who want to buy a handgun, was enacted by the U.S. Congress just days later. At a December 3, 1993 meeting in Nagoya, Ambassador Mondale thanked the Hattoris for their efforts in America which he said had contributed to the bill's passage. The ambassador gave them a copy of the...

<p>As the Bay Area's most visible proponent of reduced immigration, Yeh Ling-Ling's background presents both a boon and a liability, depending on who's talking.</p> <p>Born in Saigon, Yeh immigrated to the United States two decades ago after fleeing war-torn Cambodia and went to work for an immigration law firm helping others settle here.</p>

<p>The idea seems simple: Hundreds of men gather daily on city streets around the Bay Area looking for work, to the chagrin of some neighbors. So why not organize them, perhaps move them inside, maybe even offer them food and education while they wait for a job?</p>

US anti-war groups flex their muscle Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Tuesday October 22, 2002 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk Medea Benjamin has been close to both President Bush and his defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, over the past few weeks. So close, in fact, that she was arrested. Most memorably, Ms Benjamin was one of two women seen directly behind Mr Rumsfeld at last month's congressional hearings on Iraq holding an anti-war placard and later charged with "disruption of Congress". This Saturday, she will help lead what organisers hope will echo in scale the anti-war protests of the Vietnam era three decades...

<p>Tuesday, September 10, 2002 ©2002 San Francisco Chronicle.</p> <p>San Francisco's acting elections director John Arntz said he stood by his decision to preclude people from using Chinese characters to sign paid ballot arguments in the English version of the voter information guide.</p>

Friday, July 26, 2002 Soldiers shouldn’t be cops The Posse Comitatus Act is more doctrine than law. It was passed in 1878 to prevent civil authorities from pressing federal troops into service on posses. Since then, it has grown into a general prohibition against using the U.S. military to perform domestic police functions. It does not cover the National Guard, whom governors frequently call on for riot control or preventing looting after a flood, or the U.S. Coast Guard. The law was amended slightly in 1981 to allow military logistical support for drug-interdiction efforts. The act does not restrict the...

From: "MURRAY, ANDREW" To: "Hank Holzer" Dear Hank, We will be re-airing your talk on "Aid and Comfort" this Saturday July 13th at 5:30pm ET on Book TV. Best wishes, Andrew Murray Producer, Book TV C-SPAN 400 North Capitol St. NW Suite 650 Washington, DC 20001 (202) 626-4641 amurray@c-span.org

Posted on Fri, Jul. 12, 2002 Man charged with impersonating NSA official By MATT CAMPBELL The Kansas City Star An Independence man -- already accused of impersonating a naval officer and a Medal of Honor recipient -- on Thursday faced a more serious charge of impersonating a National Security Agency official. A felony count of possessing a fraudulent National Security Agency identification card was added to two misdemeanor charges pending in federal court against Ralph Ervin Crowder. Crowder wore an orange jail outfit Thursday when making his initial appearance before Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge John T. Maughmer in Kansas City....

SAN DIEGO -- A vehicle carrying 23 illegal immigrants across the Mexico-U.S. border was shot at Friday, injuring eight men inside, authorities said. Three of the men were hospitalized in stable condition Friday with gunshot wounds. The sport utility vehicle was in a desert wash in northern Mexico when it was first attacked. It came under fire again after crossing into the United States, authorities said. Mexican and U.S. officials were investigating one man's claim that the shots may have come from a Mexican military unit, said Sgt. Manuel Garcia of the Imperial County Sheriff's Department. A spokesperson for the...

DLC/PPI | Fact Sheet | June 1, 1998 About The Third Way America and the world have changed dramatically in the closing decades of the 20th century. The industrial order of the 20th century is rapidly yielding to the networked "New Economy" of the 21st century. Our political and governing systems, however, have lagged behind the rest of society in adapting to these seismic shifts. They remain stuck in the left-right debates and the top-down bureaucracies of the industrial past. The Democratic Leadership Council, and its affiliated think tank the Progressive Policy Institute, have been catalysts for modernizing politics and...

Four major nongovernmental organizations have joined forces to urge the Bush administration to reverse its opposition to limiting the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons at the United Nations conference taking place in New York. The conference seeks to create mechanisms to control the flow of small arms to prevent their use in ways that violate international human rights and humanitarian law. In short, the goal is to keep small arms out of the hands of paramilitary forces and others who use weapons in illegal ways. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton stated on the opening day that the Administration...

Eight female soldiers training to perform ground sweeps in the mountains of Afghanistan were removed from their Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition squadrons, an Army spokeswoman announced yesterday. The female soldiers were reassigned after the implementation of a Pentagon mandate forbidding women from participating in ground reconnaissance units, a reversal of a Clinton administration policy that made these units open to women. The mandate came despite an earlier Army announcement that it had no plans to change the units’ mixed-sex status, according to the Washington Times. The ban also comes in the wake of another troubling Bush Administration change that...

Browns' former top draft pick pleads guilty to gun charge Friday, April 19, 2002 Breaking News Sections (04-19) 09:37 PDT PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Gerard Warren pleaded guilty to a gun charge Friday, five months after he was arrested while attending a party thrown by Steelers wide receiver Plaxico Burress. Warren, the Browns' top draft pick last year, was sentenced to one year of probation after pleading guilty to the misdemeanor firearms charge. Police were questioning a passenger about suspected drug use in Warren's Chevrolet Suburban parked outside a nightclub on Nov. 20 when they spotted an...

Wilkes Barre Times-Leader Newspaper Web Posted on Tue, Apr. 09, 2002 LCCC fires professor for falsifying application David L. Silbergeld's termination on Friday comes one day after officials were notified that he has been convicted of felonies. By STEVEN A. MORELLI smorelli@leader.net NANTICOKE - Luzerne County Community College fired an adjunct history professor for falsifying his employment application, said LCCC President Andreas Paloumpis. Paloumpis would not specify what David L. Silbergeld falsified, but the teacher's contract was terminated Friday after the Times Leader told the college Silbergeld has been convicted of federal felonies, including participation in a major cocaine smuggling...

quot;A B-52 bomber ran into the Empire State Buildingquot; - Donald Trump to Chris Matthews on Hardball, March 11, 2002. Trump also told Matthews that something was wrong with the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and that's why they collapsed after the terrorist attacks. It appeared to me that real estate mogul Trump was insinuating the Empire State Building was built better than WTC.

<p>Martinez -- Don't let her lilting voice and prim, schoolmarmish demeanor fool you. You mess with Betty Maffei, you dis her volunteer staff at Contra Costa Historical Society, you have the temerity to cast aspersions on their filing acumen, and you're in for a world of hurt, my friend.</p>

Author Kitty Kelley, known for her highly unauthorized "hiss and tell" biographies of such subjects as Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan and the House of Windsor, has targeted the Bushes as fodder for her next tome, according to USA Today. Her publisher, Doubleday, expects to release the as-yet untitled book in 2004, which happens to be the year that George W. Bush first term is set to expire. The Washington-D.C.-based Kelley, 58, told USA Today that she will "of course" seek the cooperation of the Texas family that has produced two presidents. "This is a big book, ...

JACKSON, Miss. - Byron De La Beckwith, convicted three decades after assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers, died while serving life in prison. He was 80. Mr. Beckwith died Sunday night at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson and an autopsy was being performed to determine the cause of death. He had a history of heart problems and other ailments. Mr. Beckwith was convicted in 1994, 31 years and three trials after Evers was murdered. The slain 37-year-old was field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and an ardent proponent of black voting ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)--A federal grand jury has indicted another major corporation in the U.S. government's probe into what it says is a worldwide price-fixing conspiracy among makers of food preservatives. The indictment on Tuesday of Ueno Fine Chemical Industries Ltd. of Japan and its top executives brings to five the number of companies ensnared in an alleged scheme to set prices on $1 billion worth of sorbates between 1979 and 1996, the government said. Sorbates are chemical preservatives used primarily in high-moisture and high-sugar foods such as cheese and dairy products, baked goods and other processed foods. The indictment in ...

Falun Gong members set themselves on fire as protest, witness reports January 23, 2001 Web posted at: 18:17 HKT (1817 GMT) From Rebecca MacKinnon CNN Beijing Bureau Chief BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Five members of the banned Falun Gong meditation group set themselves on fire Tuesday in China's Tiananmen Square, according to an eyewitness. One of the five, a woman, died of injuries sustained in the fire. One man was seen being carried into a police van with severe burns on his face. Other bodies lay on the ground, shielded from onlookers by a screen erected by police. Members staged ...