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ASHCROFT CREATES PANEL TO "CURB LEAKS"


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His poll ratings cow Congress. The Republican in-your-face approach further freezes Democrats." 12/14 Now the White House is Directly Attacking Daschle. They're Going to Get Real Ugly, Republican Style. 12/14 India Blames Pakistani Group for Parliament Attack 12/15 Bush Invokes Executive Privilege 12/14 Arab Newspapers Downplay Bin Laden Tape; Many Arab TV Viewers Unconvinced 12/15 Maybe the Bush Administration Knows Who is Behind the Anthrax Attacks and Doesn't Want Us to Know, Because It Might be Someone from the Military or the Extreme Right Wing 12/14 It's the Enromony, Stupid 12/15 The nation's most influential state-level, air-quality agency unanimously approved a policy aimed at focusing more effort on pollution problems in predominantly poor neighborhoods and on areas whose residents are more likely to be sickened by toxins.12/15 Ashcroft Praises German Law Allowing Crackdown on Religious Organizations Deemed Extremist. 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BuzzFlash Doubts It. 12/15 Germany To Phase Out Nuclear Plants 12/15 Falwell Is Raising Money to Press Conservative Family Agenda 12/15 Execution First, Trial Later 12/15 Trace Anthrax Amounts Still Found in Senate 12/15 Anti-terror chief hails Indian Point security 12/15 ABM Treaty Withdrawal an Attack on American Security; Statement by the Federation of American Scientists 12/15 Hundreds urge shutdown of Indian Point 12/15 U.S. Hangs On in Mideast 12/15 Baggage-screening plan short billions 12/15 Senate Panel Agrees on Election Overhaul 12/15 Ultra-conservative activist David Horowitz shot through North Carolina last week to take aim at his favorite target: left-wing college students and professors. 12/15 Don't Abandon Our Civil Liberties 12/15 Kicking the Petroleum Habit 12/15 ''The divide between the United States and Europe is growing'' 12/15 Number of Executions Falls for Second Straight Year 12/15 California Jobless Rate Tops 1 Million 12/15 A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: WHAT A COINCIDENCE? 12/14 Powell Claims Everything is Hunky Dory with Russia 12/14 Ashcroft's Refusal to Investigate Terrorist Gun Records Draws Strong Outcry 12/14 Israel sends planes, tanks into Palestinian villages 12/14 US military choppers spotted near Somali capital 12/14 U.S. Asks Judge to Hold Red Cross in Contempt 12/14 Get News Fast! 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Guess What's Coming Down the Pike. 12/14 Justice Department Review Criticizes FBI Probe of Lee Case 12/14 National Defense Council Foundation: One of the Foot Soldiers of Fascism 12/14 The Enron Prize, by Paul Krugman 12/14 Goodbye Dick Armey, Hello Exterminator 12/14	Arafat's Group Suspends Effort To Crack Down on Extremists 12/14 Here Comes the Missile Defense System: Bush Formally Announces that He Will Abandon the ABM Treaty 12/13 BUSH ADVISORS CASHED IN ON SAUDI GRAVY TRAIN 12/13 Enduring what? by Molly Ivins 12/14 IT IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE THE ANTHRAX "EVILDOER" IS MADE IN THE U.S.A., AND POSSIBLY CONNECTED TO THE MILITARY Report: Violent Video Games Still Reach Kids 12/14 "I was one of the Americans held hostage by the government of Iran for 444 days..." 12/14 Those Hutchinson Brothers Can't Get It Right! (Read Down) 12/15 "If there was no Afghanistan story, for example, the press would be going nuts over Enron." 12/14 Online Store's Videos of Jet 12/14 Terrorism's First Goal: Repression by Gene Lyons 12/14 Danny Boy Burton Tells White House "This is Not a Monarchy" 12/14 The Conservative Take on John Walker . . . 12/14 A Child Left Behind: Johnny's Story by Arianna Huffington 12/14 Organize to Bring Back the Bill of Rights 12/14 Putin Calls Bush ABM Decision a "Mistake" 12/14 Judge kicks Boy Scouts out of Oregon schools for religious bigotry 12/14 Pataki's Accountant Steals $720,000 ... Goes Free! 12/14 FBI confirms 'Magic Lantern' spy project; Antivirus vendors say they won't cooperate voluntarily 12/14 If Bush Gets His Federalist Society "Confederacy" Judges Appointed, We Will Hear from More Danny Boggs 12/14 S&P cuts Halliburton's credit rating 12/14 In the "What Were They Thinking" Corner: FBI Mails Cards for Anthrax Inquiry 12/14 BUSH GETS HIS PR SPIN AND THE WIDOW OF A HERO IS LEFT HIGH AND DRY 12/14 Taliban Defeat Revives Debate On Trans-Afghan Pipeline 12/14 Recall Over Pledge of Allegiance Fails 12/14 Retired NY Firefighter Finally Locates Son's Remains in WTC Rubble 12/14 Ashcroft Has No Moral Ground to Attack Dissenters as Aiding the Enemy: He Ran Away from the Vietnam War 12/14 The Enron Tip Line: Henry Waxman Wants to Hear From You 12/14 ABM stands for A Big Mistake 12/14 Al-Qaeda Used National Rifle Association Paper Targets for Practice (Read Down Into Story) 12/13 The rights women need in Afghanistan are basic human rights 12/14 Worth Remembering: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba 12/14 Bush Offers China Talks on Arms as U.S. Pulls Out of ABM Treaty 12/15 Video Images Helping Public Opinion; BuzzFlash Thinks That's Because People Don't Read Anymore 12/14 Emirates Authorities Questioned Sept. 11 Hijacker Nine Months Before Attacks 12/14 House OKs Defense Bill; "Something in it to disappoint virtually everyone involved." 12/14 "As currently drafted, the education bill requires our schools to make significant improvements in a short time — without providing the necessary resources," Says Sen. Jim Jeffords in NYT Op/Ed Piece 12/14 Absurd suspicion of art detracts from anti-terrorist effort 12/14 India on alert after parliament shootout 12/14 So Much for the "Missile Defense System" 12/14 War turns key Afghan tunnel into death trap 12/14 The Ghost of Christmas Future in the Land of the Free 12/14 "Almost Half of Texas Governor's Income Came from Consulting for Big Businesses, Including Philip Morris 12/14 ARCHIVE:Kenneth L. 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ASHCROFT CREATES PANEL TO "CURB LEAKS"