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Tonight on Hardball...Alon does the Arafat reform speech stuff...Congressman Lincoln
Diaz-Balart will do the Carter in Cuba story...Ariel Cohen (a Heritage Foundation
think tank type) will do the new U.S.-Russia "detente" story...
We'll talk to "Inside the Bureau" author Ronald Kessler on a couple of hot FBI stories
breaking today....Take a look
The classified memorandum written by an F.B.I. agent in Phoenix last summer urging
bureau headquarters to investigate Middle Eastern men enrolled in American flight
schools also cited Osama bin Laden by name and suggested that his followers could use
the schools to train for terror operations, government officials said for the first
time today. (NY Times)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nyt/20020515/ts_nyt/pre_attack_memo_cited_bin_laden&printer=1
FBI Director to Propose 'Super Squad' for Terror...Special D.C. Unit Would Lead
Investigations Worldwide (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17307-2002May14.html
Here's the D block tonight...We'll talk to "Coloring the News" author Bill McGowan and
guess who's back??? Nachman...Jerry, that is...As you've read in this space before,
he's the new MSNBC Editor-in-Chief and an old school buddy of Hardball...We'll do the
Pearl video controversy...
Cold-blooded terrorist recruiters have stooped to a new low - spreading a video of
American journalist Daniel Pearl's execution over the Internet to attract converts.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0515PearlVideo15-ON.html
In Cuba speech, Carter talks rights...In a live, uncensored speech broadcast
nationwide in Cuba, former President Carter told the Cuban people about a homegrown
effort to force changes in the country's socialist system and called for an end to
U.S. economic sanctions.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/751162.asp
"Carter Urges Democracy for Cuba...Televised Speech Endorses Rights of Dissidents, End
of Embargo" (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17308-2002May14.html
Here's the buzz stuff tonight...The horror of Sept. 11 remains a vivid memory. But
that hasn't stopped politicians from trying to capitalize on it...The Republican
Party's new use of President Bush's image on that dark day, aloft as Air Force One
criss-crossed the nation's empty skies, is but the latest example of how parties and
candidates are invoking the war on terrorism and the patriotism it has spawned
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2002/05/15/usat-pol-terror.htm
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, responding to growing pressure at home and abroad
to overhaul his beleaguered government, called on Wednesday for sweeping reforms and
new elections. (Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&u=/nm/20020515/wl_nm/mideast_dc_2164&ncid=721&e=3
"The White House on Wednesday welcomed Yasser Arafat's speech pledging to reform his
Palestinian Authority, while a top Pentagon official questioned Arafat's ability to
make the compromises necessary for peace." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20020515/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_mideast_2e.
Loyal Hardball Briefing subscriber Mike Granoff is profiled by Hardball's own Howard
Fineman...Nice going Mike! http://www.msnbc.com/news/752486.asp
This Briefing was compiled and edited by Dominic Bellone in Washington, DC
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is driving her powerful political fund-raising machine
into New York - and will soon use it to try to oust Gov. Pataki, The Post has learned.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/48020.htm
President Bush's top drug policy adviser says the government's anti-drug ads largely
are being ignored by teens, and a survey finds no evidence the multimillion-dollar
campaign is discouraging drug use (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020515/ap_on_re_us/drug_ads_4
News of the weird: A volunteer jail chaplain, a retired Navy veteran and a career
criminal were arrested Tuesday in a murder-for-hire plot to kill Gov. Jane Hull and
Sheriff Joe Arpaio. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0515plot15.html
Alleged abuse victim shoots priest...A Roman Catholic priest was shot and seriously
wounded in Baltimore by a man who accused the cleric of sexually abusing him nine
years ago, authorities said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/732931.asp
Congress Moves to Lift Intelligence Spending...Hill Also Told of Afghan War Cost: $17
Billion (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17294-2002May14.html
Hamas leader: Attacks to continue...In an interview Tuesday with NBC News, Hamas
leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin declared that suicide attacks against Israel will continue
despite a call by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for an end to such bombings.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/752034.asp
Interim leader Hamid Karzai, in what could be his fragile government's first military
operation, says he is ready to use force against a warlord challenging his rule. (USA
Today) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/05/14/warnews.htm
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday he favored getting rid of President
Saddam Hussein, but signaled he might change his view if Iraq allowed U.N. weapons
inspectors back in unconditionally. (Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20020515/wl_nm/iraq_britain_dc_3
"GOP rakes in $33 million at dinner...Republicans shatter political fund-raising
record" (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.com/news/752354.asp?0dm=N21CN
Photo Fund-Raiser Causes a Flap...The GOP will offer a Sept. 11 picture of President
Bush to donors. Democrats, including Al Gore, say it exploits the tragedy. (LA Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000034375may15.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt denounced GOP efforts to raise money by selling
a Sept. 11 picture of President Bush, and warned Wednesday against making the war
against terrorism a political issue (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20020515/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_fund_raiser_21
Opinion/Editorial
Exploding myths...Ariel Sharon is winning the war on terrorism, writes Jonathan Chait
in Slate. Prior to Israel's offensive in the West Bank, Palestinian suicide bombers
were striking at nearly a once-a-day rate. Since then, they've struck at a rate closer
to once a month. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/751749.asp
Fund's Diary: A Court Intrigue...Procedural funny business in a racial-preference
case. http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110001709
Kelly: A Victory for Bush
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17467-2002May14.html
Landfield: Sins of the Father
http://www.practicalpolitics.net/html/sl__sins_of_the_father.html
The Wall Street Journal: Those Hideous, Awful Enron Memos...Gray Davis uses a
disgraced company as a political scapegoat.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html
Limbaugh: Rethinking the UN
http://www.newsandopinion.com/david/limbaugh.html
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/viewdb.cfm?uc_full_date=20020515
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
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