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Flap Over Rebel Flag Misguided by AL MCCRAY There has been a lot of press coverage lately on African-Americans protesting the Confederate flag. About 47,000 people reportedly took part in a huge and very vocal protest about the Rebel flag being flown on the top of the state capitol building in Columbia, S.C. There have also been many more but minor and less publicized protests around the country. The Rebel flag is certainly one hot topic of discussion. As an African-American male, a business owner and a person with an IQ of at least room temperature, I just can't seem ...

U.S. Issues Worldwide Travel Caution for Attacks 4.09 p.m. ET (2118 GMT) December 11, 1999 WASHINGTON — The United States on Saturday issued a worldwide caution to its citizens traveling abroad through the start of the New Year and Ramadan, citing "credible information that terrorists are planning attacks'' against them. The State Department said in a statement it had information indicating attacks "could be planned for locations throughout the world where large gatherings and celebrations will be taking place.'' It urged Americans traveling or living abroad "to review their security practices, to remain alert to the changing situation and to ...

Dec 9, 1999 - 11:56 AM Yeltsin Wins Chinese Support on Chechnya By Charles Hutzler Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) - Having won Chinese support for Russia's military campaign in Chechnya, Russian President Boris Yeltsin lashed out today at President Clinton, reminding Washington that Moscow still has a nuclear arsenal. At a meeting with Li Peng, China's legislative chairman and the communist government's most hard-line leader, Yeltsin told reporters he wanted to send a message to Clinton, who this week criticized Russia for causing civilian casualties in Chechnya. "It seems Mr. Clinton has forgotten Russia is a great power that ...

11/28/99 -- 7:41 PM They all come running to Jesse By JOSEPH BROWN of The Tampa Tribune When he last ran for president, Jesse Jackson made a comment during an interview with a foreign journalist that was arrogant but true: ``All I have to do is snap my fingers and the American media comes running.´´ Jackson was right, and events in the small town of Decatur, Ill., earlier this month prove it. Jackson and some of his cronies invaded the town to get six expelled students reinstated. This was and should have remained a local issue, but, thanks to ...

Woman shoots mother on the school run By Ben Fenton in Washington  A MOTORWAY chase between two "respectable and middle-class" women drivers ended when one of them took a gun out of her glove compartment and shot the other dead. The incident started when Gena Foster, a mother of three, joined the motorway to pick up her youngest child from school in an affluent suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, cutting in front of Shirley Henson and almost clipping her new Toyota vehicle. Mrs Henson, a 40-year-old company secretary who was hurrying home to walk her two labradors, flashed her headlights, prompting ...

URGENT President Boris Yeltsin hospitalized with flu MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin was taken to the Central Clinical hospital today suffering from the flu and a fever, presidential spokesman Dmitry Yakushkin said. Yeltsin, 68, has had a number of health problems in recent years, including heart trouble that led to multiple bypass surgery in 1996 and bouts of pneumonia and respiratory infections. He has also suffered from back pain and a recurring ulcer in the past year. The president has made few public appearances recently, though he held meetings in the Kremlin this week. Yeltsin insists he is ...

Retire Reno SNC Press Release - 5 September 1999 If the Clinton administration has an ounce of humanity left it will immediately retire Attorney General Janet Reno and hold the job open until a bi-partisan Congressional committee appoints her successor or until after the 2000 elections. The Southern Party believes it is way past time for Reno's well-deserved retirement back to the sunny climes of South Florida, from where she was plucked by President Clinton and his quota advisors, to serve in a job she was apparently intellectually and emotionally unqualified to conduct. Reno, by all accounts, from her trail ...

TV networks and Chinese espionage The China spy scandal has caused the White House little political damage because the major TV networks, which supply most people most of their daily news, have given it scant attention. ``It was over and done with in two days,´´ says Brent Bozell, head of the Media Research Center. ``Either the print media are making up news, or something very bizarre is going on with the networks.´´ NEWSPAPERS, PRIMARILY The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, have broken major stories on the theft of the country's most sensitive weapons secrets, including nuclear tests, ...