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To: Bill who wrote (24789)	7/19/2000 6:57:49 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769670

Whoops, another state - and one renown for tolerating strong smells - doesn't like the smell of AlGore the Junior: George W. Bush leads Al Gore 46%-40% in Arkansas, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll.

To: Bill who wrote (24789)	7/19/2000 7:14:13 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Did you see this? Amazing: Message 14066448 Tuesday July 18 4:05 PM ET Embarrassed Pentagon Withdraws Loral Award By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In an embarrassing reversal, the Pentagon said on Tuesday it was withdrawing a security award given to Loral Space and Communications because the firm was still under investigation for allegedly providing sensitive rocket launching information to China. Awards ``for outstanding security performance and practices'' had been presented to the big satellite-builder and 49 other defense companies on Monday by the Defense Department's Defense Security Service (DSS). ``I would describe it as an embarrassment and something that was unfortunate,'' Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon told reporters after DSS said it was yanking back Loral's prize. ``I think it is seen upstairs (in Defense Secretary William Cohen's office) as an embarrassment -- and it was quickly corrected,'' Bacon added in response to questions. ``I consider it, as I said, an awkward event.'' Confirming a report in Tuesday's Washington Post, Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Hansen earlier told Reuters the DSS was withdrawing the award based on a case that began four years ago. In 1996, a team headed by Loral investigated the destruction of one of the company's satellites when a Chinese launch rocket failed to put it in orbit from China. The following year, a federal grand jury in New York began an investigation into whether Loral had violated export control laws by supplying the accident report to the Chinese without first obtaining State Department approval. That investigation is still ongoing. Defense analysts said at the time that details in the accident report could have benefited China's long-range missile program. Withdrawn Within Hours The Washington Post first reported on Tuesday that the Cogswell Award for Outstanding Industrial Security, given periodically to defense firms, was being withdrawn from Loral virtually hours after it was awarded. ``It was one of those things that just didn't come up on anybody's radar screen'' initially, Hansen told Reuters. The DSS is the Defense Department's security arm, handling thousands of tasks from investigating civilian and contract workers at the Pentagon to checking the care with which industry protects military secrets and sensitive information. The Post quoted Thomas Ross, a spokesman for Loral, as saying that the company learned that the Pentagon was withdrawing the award because it was ``policy not to present the award to anyone who is under investigation.'' A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee in 1998 concluded that Loral had broken the law in faxing the technical conclusions of the rocket crash review panel to the Chinese. Loral's license to sell the satellites was suspended following congressional investigations into the incident and the launching of the grand jury investigation. The Post also noted that the withdrawal was the latest twist for Loral, whose president recently was cleared after being accused two years ago by some Republican lawmakers of using campaign contributions to influence White House decisions to benefit the company. Some Republicans said Loral's president, Bernard Schwartz, was one of the biggest political contributors to the Democratic Party from 1994 to 1996. They alleged that the donations were related to a 1997 White House waiver that permitted Loral's sale of a new communications satellite to China, the Post reported. Hansen said on Tuesday that the selections for annual security awards are now made chiefly from nominations submitted by the firms themselves based on their records during a two-year period. The submissions are reviewed by the Pentagon and other government security agencies, she said. The Post quoted Loral spokesman Ross as saying that the rocket accident took place three years ago and therefore was not part of Loral's entry. dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Bill who wrote (24789)	7/19/2000 10:14:31 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

More on Jacoby: mediaresearch.org Go West young man. Sunday and Monday brought reaction from two ombudsmen to Jeff Jacoby’s situation. Unfortunately for the now-suspended conservative Boston Globe columnist, he was condemned by Jack Thomas, the Globe’s ombudsman, who accused him of plagiarism, maintained "he was lucky he wasn’t fired" and basically suggested he become a liberal, recommending he go off and be a reporter for a few months so "he might learn something about life." Thomas complained about a supposed effort by the "radical right in America to rescue Jacoby as the New England conduit for their ideology." But the Arizona Republic’s Richard de Uriate, "reader advocate" at the Phoenix daily which carried Jacoby’s syndicated column, recounted what Jacoby did and then concluded: "Republic Editorial Page Editor Keven Willey said she considers Jacoby a ‘fresh conservative voice’ and would be willing to use him again. That is, whenever and wherever he writes another column." To read the entire July 16 piece, go to: azcentral.com