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To: Neeka who wrote (54154)	7/13/2004 3:42:02 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793625

Illinois is yet to catch on. Maybe Ditka will jump in the race and bring us some excitement.

To: Neeka who wrote (54154)	7/13/2004 6:11:07 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793625

i am shocked that seattle people would act this way.. what is this world coming too.. more conservative?

To: Neeka who wrote (54154)	7/14/2004 1:57:52 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793625

I was in Costco today also. Bill Clinton's book had the most prominent position on the table. NOBODY was looking at it. Mysteriously, on top of the Clinton pile someone had placed: "American Evita: Hillary Clinton's Path to Power" on top of the pile. There were a couple of other books on top of Clinton's pile too. Including "Ronald Reagan: An American Life" by Ronald Reagan. And most apropos on the Clinton pile, I thought, was "Skinny Dip." My wife bought this book after hearing about it on TV this morning. She read me the cover blurb on the way home. It's about a 'marine biologist' who makes his living falsifying water samples so an evil company can pollute. His wife threatens to expose him, so he takes her on a cruise and pushes her off the deck while the ship is under way. Only she is an Olympic class swimmer and survives by clinging to a floating bale of marijuana. Safely ashore, she decides to "stay dead" and make his life a living hell. Sound familiar?

To: Neeka who wrote (54154)	7/15/2004 6:25:11 PM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793625

Kurds back PM’s drive for stability Arbil Iraq Press July 15, 2004 Leaders of the two main Kurdish factions have put their weight behind interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s struggle to bring peace to the war-torn country. Allawi announced Thursday the formation of a new security body that the government says will help restore security amid a sudden surge in violence. The Kurds, whose areas enjoy relative peace, see it in their interests to provide the interim government the support it needs to succeed in its battle against insurgents and terrorists. Allawi has openly supported Kurdish autonomy in the country and recognized their current semi-independent status. In return the Kurds have placed their militias under the command of the government and have offered assistance to the newly formed security body. Kurdish leaders Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani run separate regional governments in the north with special security forces and militias. Kurdish troops have succeeded to contain terror and violence in their areas and the leaders have told Allawi they are willing to help spread their experiment to the country’s most restive areas. Under new regulations, Allawi’s government has the right to impose emergency measures in case the insurgency and lawlessness get out of control. The measures, Allawi has said, will not apply to Kurdish areas where regional security rules will remain in force. “We have decided to put all the capabilities we have under the disposal of the (interim) government,” announced Barzani at the end of a short visit by Allawi to Arbil. Barzani and Talabani are reported to have mobilized their militias and security forces – estimated at 100,000 troops – and say they are ready to join the interim “government’s fight against terror.” The ministries of interior and defense are reported to be mulling how best to utilize the Kurdish troops. The Kurds are said even to be ready to disband their militias if the government accepts integrating them in the national army. The latest upsurge in violence has apparently persuaded various political factions with militias to close ranks with the interim government. The Kurds have their own intelligence gathering agencies in the north and Allawi is hoping to draw on their experience as he presses ahead with the formation of a new General Security Directorate. The directorate will be the first domestic intelligence agency to be organized by the interim government with the aim of infiltrating and exposing those behind the insurgency. ------------------------------------------------------- Scientists want to resume nuclear research, but only for peaceful purposes Baghdad Iraq Press July 15, 2004 The interim authorities want to revive the country’s nuclear program but the target will be totally different from that under the ousted leader Saddam Hussein. Minister of Science and Technology Rashad Mandan Omar has said the government is keen to get in touch with the scientists who run the previous program which Saddam Hussein had steered from the beginning towards “illegal objectives.” In the late 1980s Iraq had one of the most advanced nuclear research programs in the Middle East and according to UN weapons inspectors who oversaw its dismantling Iraqi scientists were close to acquiring nuclear bomb capability. The program was reduced to zero after the 1991 Gulf War but the scientists held their research posts within the now disbanded Military Industrialization Commission. MIC had an estimated 3,000 scientists and most of them are now idle. A few prominent weapons scientists have been assassinated and scores are believed to have fled or gone into hiding in the year since US troops landed in Baghdad. Omar, the technology minister, wants to resume contacts with the scientists and employ them in a new nuclear program that will be open to international supervision and geared towards peaceful purposes. “We will focus on the formation of an army of scientists to set up a peaceful nuclear research program,” Omar has said. However, his ministry does not have the financial resources to restart the program and pay the scientists. Omar has estimated that reviving the program and furnishing the laboratories which either were bombed or looted during and after the latest war will require a massive sum of $15 billion.