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To: Moonglow who wrote (6384)	5/2/1999 4:00:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

>>"No leader who cares for his people and fellow countrymen could possibly make that decision."<< He made the correct decision. Anyone with half a brain knows it. NATO wants Milosevic to give Kosovo to the Albanians. He will never do that no matter how many women and children NATO kills with "smart" bombs. NATO simply doesn't have the balls to take Kosovo by force with ground troops and Milosevic knows it. How would Clinton explain 10,000 dead American soldiers? NATO has lost the war. It is time to bring the boys home. Let the KLA and the Serbs fight to the last man.

To: Moonglow who wrote (6384)	5/2/1999 4:05:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

Juanita, Juanita heroes that went-down history( many in Balkans) as folklore martyrs from Genghis Khan, Rome, Ottomans living their country in ruins...to modern time Serbian Partizans.... With Dow 11,000 it is hard for young American to understand what Serbs feel right now...Albanians gambled on independance and NATO..they lost big time...NATO is not going risk ground troops for them..it is time to quite war and try to salvage what is left...(not much)

To: Moonglow who wrote (6384)	5/2/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Senator: More To Come In China Nuclear Case 03:26 p.m May 02, 1999 Eastern WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should brace for more ''revelations'' on the China nuclear scandal, a senior U.S. lawmaker said Sunday. ''The damage was bad, a lot worse than people ever imagined,'' said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Shelby on allegations China penetrated the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and obtained U.S. nuclear secrets. ''I think there will be more revelations that will come out week after week.'' Shelby told ''Fox News Sunday'' he hoped that China did not have ''it all,'' but ''I'm afraid they have a lot more than we ever dreamed they would have.'' The FBI and others are investigating allegations that nuclear weapons secrets were stolen from Los Alamos, which fired scientist Wen Ho Lee last month on suspicions he made top secret data available to the Chinese. Shelby said his committee would soon focus on how the Justice Department and the FBI handled Lee, who reportedly came to the attention of investigators in 1994. ''There is a lot of blame to go around and I think it's serious,'' he said. Shelby, and others, want to know why it took so long to zero in on Lee's alleged activities, which included assertions he manipulated sensitive computer files. ''It looks to me like this is a botched investigation by the FBI, and I think there is some culpability with the Justice Department,'' Shelby said. ''I think the Justice Department treated this as an ordinary case when it should have been an extraordinary case.'' Shelby questioned why Justice investigators at one point did not approve a request from the FBI to secretly monitor Lee's computer and telephone. ''They had a wake-up call. Maybe they didn't hear it,'' he said. Shelby said last week after a briefing by FBI Director Louis Freeh that the espionage case had become the bureau's top priority. But Shelby said Sunday that Freeh told lawmakers building a spy case is extremely difficult, but he (Shelby) thought one would be made. ''My gut feeling is there will be charges. Hopefully they will be good ones,'' Shelby said. Separately, the New York Times reported Sunday that a secret report to top Clinton administration officials last November warned that China posed an ''acute intelligence threat'' to the government's nuclear weapons labs and that computer systems at the labs were being constantly penetrated by outsiders. Shelby said China, which denies the spy assertions, is ''so aggressive and so well connected all over America'' on U.S. nuclear technology matters. ''I assume and I bet as we sit here, espionage or attempted espionage is going on.'' Asked if other nations, like Russia and India, had obtained U.S. nuclear secrets, Shelby said they were ''trying.'' A U.S. National Security Council spokesman said the report cited by the Times was ordered by the president in 1998 and included a ''comprehensive action plan'' to address security at national laboratories. ''The Energy Department has taken a number of steps to increase security at the labs and we will continue to be vigilant as we deal with the threat from China and other countries trying to acquire our nuclear technology,'' the spokesman, David Leavy, said. Shelby said it would take a long time to put meaningful security measures in place, and that he thought the FBI would eventually have to take over security at U.S. labs. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.