Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service back issues from April 1999:
Clinton's aura of confidence masks a reluctant warrior.
Apr 01, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ In the morning, President Clinton walks into the Oval Office and starts asking questions about the air campaign he ordered against Yugoslavia. He peppers generals and aides with queries about how effective the bombing is at stopping Yugoslav President Slobodan ...
Senate subcommittee approves law regulating body piercing.
Apr 01, 1999; ... COLUMBIA, S.C. _ A law regulating body piercing was approved by a Senate subcommittee Wednesday with no opposition. Body piercing, a practice that includes placing jewelry through the lips, tongue, in the navel or other body parts fell through a loophole in state law and is ...
NATO continues to ratchet up campaign as flow of refugees increases.
Apr 01, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ The race is on to save lives in Kosovo. Serb troops on Wednesday again ratcheted up their village-by-village campaign of sending ethnic Albanians out of the province of Kosovo, and the Clinton administration and NATO officials again said they had no intention of ...
In New Zealand, biking and hiking in mountains are a way to enjoy nightlife.
Apr 01, 1999; ... ROTORUA, New Zealand _ SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH. It sounds like someone has goosed a very large and particularly bad-tempered cobra. In the dark. About two yards away. Noticing my quizzical look, Evan Freshwater says, ``Possums. A couple of males fighting. Go at it all the ...
New Zealand trout are something to tout.
Apr 01, 1999; ... TAUPO, New Zealand _ Even though we have more fly-fishing water in Michigan than 99 percent of the country, our average trout are 10-12 inches long. If we include the dinks we normally don't count, it's even smaller. Which is why it's so much fun to fish in a place where trout ...
KLA withdraws from Pristina, pushed on brink of defeat by Serbian offensive.
Apr 01, 1999; ... KUKES, Albania _ The Kosovo Liberation Army is retreating into its strongholds and facing imminent defeat as its arms supply lines are crippled by heavy Serbian offensives launched following NATO air strikes in Yugoslavia, a senior KLA official said Wednesday. In an interview ...
Albanians forced into mass exodus from Pristina.
Apr 01, 1999; ... SKOPJE, Macedonia _ Emboldened by their success at emptying Kosovo's smaller cities, Serb forces are now trying for the province's biggest prize: the capital city of Pristina, with a population of 350,000. A three-mile-long column of ethnic Albanian refugees was reported on a ...
Herring arrive; bass aren't far behind.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Trout fishermen aren't the only anglers eager for the spring fishing season to blossom. ``The first herring of the season have been spotted in Gilbert Stuart. There are bass _ small ones _ at the power plant in Providence. The coves are beginning to fill with shrimp and mummies, ...
Yahoo to say it will buy Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion in stock, sources say.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Internet high-flier Yahoo Inc. is expected to announce Thursday that it will purchase Dallas-based Broadcast.com Inc. in a stock transaction valued at about $5.7 billion. Under terms of the deal, Broadcast.com, a pioneer in sending audio and video over the Internet, will become ...
Operators refuse to pay city's concert amphitheater tax bill for $300,000.
Apr 01, 1999; ... VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. _ The city's concert amphitheater faces a bill for up to $300,000 in back taxes that its operators are refusing to pay. Last October, following two separate audits of the GTE Virginia Beach Amphitheater, the commissioner of revenue sent a bill for unpaid ...
Two Miami schools help raise money to help free slaves held in Sudan.
Apr 01, 1999; ... MIAMI _ Klenda Verine collected loose change. Daniel Cruz persuaded his mom to pitch in $5. Other kids sold Snickers bars. Together, they raised $700 _ enough to buy the freedom of at least two dozen slaves in the Sudan. The money raised by the sixth-graders at ...
Leash law bites back; continuing problems call for stray roundup.
Apr 01, 1999; ... URBANNA, Va. _ Every dog found roaming in town April 15-24 will be picked up and taken to the county pound. The 10-day roundup applies to dogs owned by Urbanna residents, as well as dogs that swim or jog into town from points beyond. ``When they cross the town line, ...
Buck Williams considering joining Michael Jordan as a partner.
Apr 01, 1999; ... NEW YORK _ Former Knick Buck Williams has expressed interest in joining Michael Jordan in his bid to purchase 50 percent of the Charlotte Hornets. ``That is something I've always wanted to do,'' Williams said on Wednesday. ``There are so many basketball players in this league ...
Jim Harrick's decision is `almost a no-brainer'.
Apr 01, 1999; ... SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. _ There were a lot of reasons Jim Harrick decided to leave the University of Rhode Island and take the job as basketball coach at the University of Georgia. It offered the chance to be reunited with an old friend and neighbor from his days in California, ...
Prosecutors charge four NYC police officers with intentional homicide.
Apr 01, 1999; ... NEW YORK _ After searing the city for two months, the Amadou Diallo killing exploded in a packed Bronx courtroom Wednesday as prosecutors charged four police officers with gunning down the unarmed immigrant in cold blood. In an extremely rare legal step, Bronx District Attorney ...
Three U.S. soldiers missing as NATO air attack, Serb campaign continue.
Apr 01, 1999; ... American troops in Macedonia searched with helicopters late Wednesday for three U.S. soldiers who had possibly been abducted by Serb troops. Their last radio communication was that ``they were being fired upon and surrounded,'' a Pentagon official said. There was no immediate ...
President to thank military personnel, families in visit to Navy base.
Apr 01, 1999; ... NORFOLK, Va. _ As U.S. involvement in the NATO bombardment of Serbian military forces in Yugoslavia escalates, President Clinton will visit troops and military families at Norfolk Naval Station on Thursday ``to express the nation's gratitude for their service,'' the White House said. ...
Farmers bailing out in face of grim financial outlook.
Apr 01, 1999; ... SUFFOLK, Va. _ Fed up with long hours, low prices and little profit at the end of the year, more and more farmers are selling out. In Virginia, the number of farms in the past 30 years has declined by 36.4 percent. And traditional farms have probably suffered bigger losses, ...
Troops search in Macedonia at first light for missing soldiers.
Apr 01, 1999; ... American troops in Macedonia searched with helicopters at first light Thursday for three U.S. soldiers who had possibly been abducted by Serb troops or smugglers. They cried out in their last radio communication ``they were being fired upon and surrounded,'' a Pentagon official said. ...
Legendary comic-book artist offers correspondence courses.
Apr 01, 1999; ... So, you want to draw comic books, do you? Well, now you can learn from a master _ without even leaving your home. In 1976, legendary comic-book artist Joe Kubert and his wife, Muriel, founded the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art Inc. Among the notable ...
Pockets and more pockets make pants the fashion pick.
Apr 01, 1999; ... They've been around almost since fashion graduated from the fig leaf, so who would have expected that in the summer of '99, the most pervasive fashion news would involve, of all things, pockets. We're talking many pockets in cargo pants, skirts and shorts, military fatigues, ...
Hobby habits.
Apr 01, 1999 ... A national survey commissioned by the 4,000-member Hobby Industry Association in 1998 shows that nearly nine out of 10 households have at least one family member involved in crafts or hobbies. In fact, home crafters have pushed hobby product sales to a $10 billion-a-year business. ...
Child promotes organ donation after transplant.
Apr 01, 1999; ... KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. _ Samuel Falls was more interested in riding his red and yellow tricycle than talking about going to Washington. But the fact that the 5-year-old can reach the pedals is evidence of why he was chosen to go to the nation's capital April 13 on a thank-you ...
The media discover foreign policy.
Apr 01, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ The interesting convergence of foreign-policy crises, both real (Kosovo) and potential (China), has had at least one beneficial effect: The media are finally focusing on national security instead of you-know-her-name. The question of media credibility looms large ...
The Social Security trust fund fraud.
Apr 01, 1999; ... The trustees of Social Security have just released a report that says the retirement program's ``trust fund'' will remain solvent until 2034, two years later than the bankruptcy date projected in last year's report. But the 2034 estimate is meaningless _ the money that supposedly resides ...
NRA helps supporters of Missouri proposition outspend opponents 3-to-1.
Apr 01, 1999; ... JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. _ Gun advocates, funded almost entirely by the National Rifle Association, have spent more than $2.1 million in support of Proposition B, outspending their opponents more than 3-to-1. The proposition, which goes to voters April 6, would allow Missourians to ...
Breast-feeding is no crime.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Tabitha Walrond, a 19-year-old mother from Bronx, N.Y., is living one nightmare after another. Her newborn son, Tyler, was repeatedly denied medical care, and he died in her arms of malnutrition at seven weeks. Now she's being prosecuted for manslaughter. If convicted, she ...
Lawsuits off-target: Study shows lawful gun use by citizens deters crime and reduces police costs .
Apr 01, 1999; ... WILMINGTON, Del. _ The mayors of New Orleans, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami-Dade County and Bridgeport, Conn., have filed lawsuits against gun manufacturers to recover costs related to firearm violence in their cities. Other cities seem likely to file suits in the near future. They ...
Sibling rivalries not uncommon in sports.
Apr 01, 1999; ... PHILADELPHIA _ Sibling rivalries are much more fun than, say, twins who are emotionally joined at the hip. Imagine the conversation around the dinner table when Joe DiMaggio showed up, a World Series ring for every finger, while Dom DiMaggio could wear only the blanket of angst ...
Military warned to keep eye out for terrorism at home.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Members of the military in Colorado and across the nation have been warned to watch for terrorism at home as NATO continues bombing Yugoslavia. The warning comes after the FBI intercepted a letter last week that calls for attacks on American service members within the United ...
Human rights' movement is the bombing's first victim.
Apr 01, 1999; ... BELGRADE, Yugoslavia _ NATO's air offensive has not simply ``degraded'' Yugoslavia's military installations. It has also taken its toll in human lives and is progressively destroying the economic infrastructure of our impoverished country. In the long run, however, the biggest ...
Nation's feelings about the POWs will solidify quickly .
Apr 01, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ The emotions of captivity are suddenly churning, experts say. Behind the hollow eyes and bruised faces of the three captured American soldiers are feelings of fear and humiliation. It's a sense of helplessness and hopelessness, psychologists say. And, ...
Low-ranking soldiers take on added strategic importance in modern warfare.
Apr 01, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ The dirty work of wars has always been largely left to lowly privates and sergeants. But now, when modern wars are undeclared, limited and broadcast live on CNN, the lowly private can actually shape their outcome. The bloody and badly beaten faces of the three U.S ....
Capture of soldiers likely to strengthen U.S. resolve.
Apr 02, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ Those pictures should spell trouble. They did in Somalia, when the body of an American soldier was dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. And they did in Tehran, when Iranians held 52 Americans hostage in their own embassy. But the film on Serbian television of ...
Clinton warns Milosevic regarding captured soldiers, restates U.S. resolve.
Apr 02, 1999; ... President Clinton warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Thursday that the United States would hold him responsible for the safety of three American infantrymen captured in the Balkans. ``President Milosevic should make no mistake,'' Clinton said. ``The United States ...
Uncertainty surrounds circumstances under which soldiers were captured.
Apr 02, 1999; ... ALGUNJA, Macedonia _ The U.S. soldiers drove down a straight, quiet road lined with tall poplars and blossoming cherry trees before they turned off into the rocky hills that led to the Yugoslav border. It was about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday when the proprietor of a market saw the ...
Don't trust ... vegetarians?
Apr 02, 1999; ... You might not guess it from looking at me, but I'm a member of a ``gang.'' I'm sure I don't fit any standard profiles. For starters, I'm a college graduate and a professional writer. I pay taxes and vote. I recycle, taking care to separate my clear glass bottles from my aluminum cans. ...
No refuge from racism behind the wheel.
Apr 02, 1999; ... When I was growing up, my buddies and I would drive from our working-class barrio to cruise or hang out in Monterey Park. It was a lovely Los Angeles suburb, but its police force was a wee bit too protective. They had the habit of stopping us for weaving through traffic, to check licenses, ...
Good reasons for intervention in Kosovo.
Apr 02, 1999; ... Long caravans of tired, terrified, desperate Kosovars fleeing the savage onslaughts of Serbian soldiers and police provide heart-wrenching testimony of a human catastrophe of enormous proportions. It is evident that the Serbs are executing a genocidal plan in Kosovo reminiscent ...
Personal responsibility snuffed out? Oregon jury awards $81 million to heirs of man who smoked 919,800 cigarettes.
Apr 02, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ According to the sworn testimony of his wife and friends, school janitor Jesse Williams started smoking Marlboros in 1955, and quickly moved up to three packs a day. In the movie and TV shows of that era, characters often referred to cigarettes as ``coffin nails.'' ...
Milosevic and the Big Lie.
Apr 02, 1999; ... Even as the endless flow of refugees pours out of Kosovo, Serbian officials are trying to propagate The Big Lie. ``Peaceful refugees'' can come home, says Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. This tragedy is all NATO's fault, he says. Yugoslav troops aren't trying to purge ...
They put human face to conflict, but impact is uncertain at home .
Apr 02, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ The voice crackled over the radio from the Humvee: ``We're taking direct fire. We're trapped. They're all around us. We can't get out.'' Hours later videotape appeared on Serbian TV: Three young American GI's captured patrolling a distant Balkan border. Wearing ...
SERBS GATHER EVIDENCE AGAINST U.S. PRISONERS; FLOOD OF REFUGEES CONTINUES.
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Weekly roundup of Canadian news.
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Despite world tensions, China's premier coming to Washington in effort to repair relations.
Apr 02, 1999; ... BEIJING _ When rumors surfaced here that Premier Zhu Rongji might cancel his nine-day trip to the United States next week, few people in the Chinese capital could blame him. The NATO attacks on Yugoslavia, which the official People's Daily rebuked as ``naked aggression,'' have ...
CNN's coverage of the Kosovo conflict draws wrath from Serbs.
Apr 02, 1999; ... As weapons of war go, TV is close to nuclear. Bombs inflict terrible damage. But warlords, diplomats and heads of state negotiate, threaten and manipulate public opinion via the tube _ mostly on the network with the most international outlook, CNN. Yet right now, as the brutal ...
Despite strengths, Yankees face uncertainties, too.
Apr 02, 1999; ... TAMPA, Fla. _ Settling gingerly into a chair recently, David Cone tried to explain how the Yankees might not win it all again this year. He and fellow righthander Roger Clemens were old. They were thin on lefthanded relievers and real thin on portly lefthanded starters named ...
Coming this month: New from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Naughty by Nature.
Apr 02, 1999; ... April showers music fans with cool new CD sounds from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Naughty By Nature, Robert Cray Band and The Cranberries, rare blasts from the past by Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, plus debuts by talented offspring Tal Bachman, Bijou Phillips and Julio Iglesias, Jr. ...
U.S. SENDING MORE AIR POWER TO YUGOSLAVIA, SAYS SOLDIERS CAN'T BE TRIED.
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Serbs release U.S. photographer after overnight detention.
Apr 02, 1999; ... The towering Serb police commander with the shaved head came back to the cell just before daybreak Friday. You will be tied to a bridge in Novi Sad tonight as a human shield, he told photographer Mark Milstein. It was the most terrifying moment of Milstein's 17-hour ordeal after ...
Kosovo operation looks more and more like a years-long quagmire.
Apr 02, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ With each passing day in the war over Kosovo, the United States and its European allies sink deeper into a Balkans quagmire that could take years to resolve. Experts say the only foreseeable way now for a quick end is for NATO to stop its airstrikes against Serb ...
Names in the news.
Apr 02, 1999 ... George Jones says he doesn't remember anything about the car accident that nearly killed him last month. In his first public comments since crashing his sport utility vehicle into a bridge March 6, the 67-year-old country singer said initially he didn't even know why he was in the ...
Last remaining Shaker community still shuns the gaudy vulgarity of the modern world.
Apr 02, 1999; ... NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine _ Where two or three of the faithful are gathered, Jesus told his disciples, he would be with them. In that case, he is still with the Shakers. Here at the last remaining Shaker community, four women and three men are all who remain to carry on ...
Belgrade diary: The NATO bombs as seen from below.
Apr 03, 1999; ... BELGRADE, Yugoslavia _ Dusan Djordjevich, a doctoral student at Stanford University, is one of the few Americans remaining in Yugoslavia as the NATO attack continues. He is in Belgrade writing a dissertation on 1930s Yugoslav politics and intellectuals, and he has been keeping a journal ...
Historical and political lessons not so easy to apply.
Apr 03, 1999; ... Americans might do well at this moment to reflect on _ and remember _ the oscillating uncertainty that gripped the nation when the NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia began. Respect for that uncertainty may be the most important thing we can gain from this situation. ...
Carriers likely to be diverted from Persian Gulf to Kosovo conflict.
Apr 03, 1999; ... NORFOLK, Va. _ The Pentagon is expected to announce this weekend that it will order the carrier Theodore Roosevelt into the Adriatic Sea to bolster air forces in NATO's continuing war with Yugoslavia. The good news for families in Hampton Roads is that the Pentagon plans to ...
Judge lets 132-year sentence stand after polling jury.
Apr 03, 1999; ... NORFOLK, Va. _ In an era of mandatory minimum sentences, Circuit Judge Junius P. Fulton III was dismayed with a jury-recommended prison sentence for a 24-year-old man convicted of robbery and related charges. The jury recommended that the man spend 132 years in prison. ...
Surgeon general tells Black Family Summit to strive for healthier lives.
Apr 03, 1999; ... MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. _ David Satcher's desire to become a physician grew from a near-death experience when he was 2 and had whooping cough. ``By the time I was 6 years old I was telling everybody I was going to be a doctor,'' the Alabama native said Friday. ``I didn't know what ...
Handyman may hold a key to the 1995 disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
Apr 03, 1999; ... An Oakland County, Mich., handyman, who lived quietly with his girlfriend in a modest Novi apartment, may hold a key to the 1995 disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the proudly quarrelsome godmother of the American atheist movement. The handyman's tale, as revealed in ...
50,000 sodden, hungry refugees trapped on the Kosovo border.
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Montenegro worries that it may be Milosevic's next target.
Apr 03, 1999; ... PODGORICA, Montenegro _ The tenuous relationship between Serbia and its smaller sister republic showed further signs of unraveling Friday, with top Montenegrin officials warning that Yugoslav President Slobodon Milosevic might try to overthrow their government. ``Right now the ...
50,000 sodden, hungry refugees trapped on the Kosovo border.
Apr 03, 1999; ... BLACE, Macedonia _ The sun had slipped behind the mountains, dropping temperatures into the 40s. A steady drizzle fell on 50,000 homeless souls who filled a grassy valley next to the railroad tracks leading in from Kosovo. Stuck here with no shelters, few plastic sheets and only ...
FBI agents dig on Texas ranchland; may be seeking bones of missing atheist.
Apr 03, 1999; ... FBI agents armed with a federal search warrant hauled digging equipment onto a ranch in a remote area of South Texas on Friday, apparently looking for the bodies of missing atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair and two relatives. Ranch owner Joanne Friend said she was startled ...
N.J. authorities arrest a man, charge him with launching ``Melissa'' virus.
Apr 03, 1999; ... Using information provided by America Online, New Jersey authorities tracked down and arrested a Monmouth County man, and charged him with launching ``Melissa'' _ a computer virus that has infiltrated computers and clogged e-mail systems around the world earlier this week. ...
A small mountain village disappears.
Apr 03, 1999; ... KRUMA, Albania _ Rokmane Feraj was eating a breakfast of bread and cheese when she heard the scuff of boots. Gunfire thundered in the yard. Waving a long knife and wearing a yellow bandanna, a Serb soldier burst into her house. More troops spilled into the Kosovo village of ...