Weekly UpDate -- May 30 - June 6, 1996, Vol 3, Issue 11
Weekly Update
Volume 3 Issue 11
May 30 - Jun 6, 1996
CLINTON AT PRINCETON
Clinton flew into Mercer County Airport at 10 AM this morning (Tue.
June 4) to address graduates at Princeton University (no doubt to keep in
touch with the everyday average American).
Clinton was met in Princeton with 600 demonstrators who filled the
streets.
So vocal were the demonstrators, Clinton, after to delivering his
address to the Princeton graduates, was forced to abruptly return to
Mercer Airport 2 hours earlier than scheduled and depart at 2:30 PM
instead of 4:30 PM due to anticipated demonstrations at the airport.
This Colony News publisher was in attendance, both at the airport and
at Princeton where local police told me that Clinton was speeding up his
schedule to avoid "bad picture press" at the departing airport.
It is obvious Clinton, not unlike Nixon, is becoming trapped within
the White House due to many unpopular stances and legal problems underway.
A local Princeton University maintenance man I spoke with informed
me that snipers, state police, and secret service were everywhere --
actually shutting the town and its main arteries for 4 hours.
It is becoming apparent Clinton leaves the White House now at his
own risk.
Michael Devlin
Publisher
Colony News
AUSTRALIA'S GUN CONTROL BATTLE
Australian Prime Minister John Howard vowed Sunday to introduce tough
gun laws after the second shooting spree in a month despite big anti-gun
control rallies and threats of a political campaign by gun owners.
"I understand how strongly some people feel about this issue and I've
always acknowledged there are a lot of law-abiding people who are going
to be affected by these new laws," Howard told reporters in Sydney.
"I also know that the great majority of the Australian people support
the stand that I have taken...and whilst I understand the views of people
who dissent, the government's position will not alter." Howard said.
Some 60,000 gun owners staged one of the country's biggest protests
since the Vietnam War Saturday, just hours after a gunman armed with a
pump-action shotgun wounded five people near the tropical city of Darwin,
capital of the Northern Territory.
A rally of some 7,000 gun owners in Adelaide Sunday warned of a
ballot backlash against the tough new gun laws.
Howard plans to ban automatic and semi-automatic weapons, in the
wake of the Port Arthur massacre.
Tasmania has banned automatic and semi-automatic weapons.
Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, has already banned
the sale of automatic and semi-automatic weapons and his introduced new
legislation to return gun control to the national government.
Howard said Australian politicians were at a crossroads and had the
opportunity to stop the country adopting the gun culture of the United
States.
Reuters
June 2, 1996
U.N. OPENS HOUSING CONFERENCE
The United Nations global conference on human settlements, Habitat II,
opened Monday with thousands of delegates gathering to chart a code for
future living standards for the world's population.
Habitat will take up issues linked to housing, poverty and the
environment in the 21st century when more than three billion people are
expected to live in towns, **including the disputed issue of whether
housing is a human right**.
Reuters
June 3, 1996
NATO ENTERS NEW ERA
NATO, in a landmark deal that will allow it to handle peacekeeping
and further Bosnia-style crises in the new millennium, agreed Monday to
boost the role of European members within the alliance.
Foreign ministers from the 16 NATO nations, meeting in the once-
divided city of Berlin, proclaimed that the new NATO was now better
able to go beyond the defense of its members and would remain the
linchpin of European security.
The deal gives the European wing of the U.S.-led alliance the chance
to launch its own missions using borrowed NATO assets, if Washington
agrees to lend them.
It lays out a complex series of arrangements which will bring major
changes to NATO's military, making it more flexible and, in addition,
able to work with countries outside the alliance -- as is already the
case in Bosnia.
The agreement marks the first time that the United States has been
prepared to lend valuable alliance assets to Europeans running their own
military operations.
Many details remain to be worked out, most notably the key questions
of how much freedom of action Washington will give its allies in using
NATO equipment the United States owns.
Reuters
June 3, 1996
MOST MEDIA VOTED FOR CLINTON
A Dr. Barnett from Grayling recently posed the question..."why are
conservative, religious or political persons branded by the media and
liberals as radical extremists of some kind?"
An excerpt from a May 5 column in the Detroit News by Paul Craig
Roberts might shed some light on the matter. According to the latest
poll by the Freedom Forum of news reporters and bureau chiefs in the
nation's capital, only 2 percent identified themselves as conservatives
and only 4 percent are registered Republicans. Eighty-nine percent of
them voted for Bill Clinton in 1992!
By the way, do you suppose, all that knee-jerking is confined to the
left leg?
Letter to the editor
Detroit News
Dave Aumann, Midland
CLINTON AVOIDS HOUSE CONTEMPT VOTE
The White House Thursday handed over more documents to a House
panel probing the 1993 travel office firings, avoiding at the last minute
an embarrassing contempt of Congress vote.
On Thursday morning the White House delivered 1,000 pages of travel
office papers and a log of another 2,000 pages which White House counsel
Jack Quinn said President Clinton intended to keep confidential.
These papers supplement 40,000 pages sent earlier to the Government
Reform Committee which is investigating whether the Clinton White House
wrongfully fired the entire travel office staff May 15, 1993 to give its
own people the jobs.
After receiving the new documents House Republican leader Dick Armey
of Texas canceled a vote set for Thursday to hold White House aides in
contempt of Congress. The contempt vote could be revived if the papers
are inadequate, he said.
"My personal bet is they will be incomplete," Army told reporters at
his regular news conference.
White House spokesman Mark Fabiani said the decision to send the
papers had nothing to do with the impending contempt vote in the House.
He said the panel had been notified earlier this month the papers would
be made available once Attorney General Janet Reno decided which
documents should be held private on grounds of presidential executive
privilege.
On advice of Reno the president claimed executive privilege on nearly
2,000 pages of travel office papers, most dealing with advice to the
president from his legal counsel.
Notifying the panel of the executive privilege claims, Quinn said:
"Critically important constitutional principles are at stake -- most
notably the keystone of our governmental structure, the separation of
powers."
All seven fired employees were exonerated and most were offered other
jobs. Former travel office director Billy Dale was charged with
embezzlement but found innocent by a jury.
Reuters
May 31, 1996
AN INTERNATIONAL IRS?
In the 1962 State Department report entitled A World eftectively
controlled by the United Nations, author Lincoln P. Bloomfield called for
disarmament of all nations, equipping the UN with a 500,000-man military
force, providing it with nuclear weapons, forcing all to submit to the
compulsory jurisdiction of a UN world court, and requiring mandatory
membership of all nations.
He's also advocated providing the UN with the power to raise its own
revenue -- a necessary feature of any bona fide government.
The New American
John F. McManus
June 10, 1996
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