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Friday, March 19, 2004

misc.

Taiwan's President Chen shot
    CNN

"Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has been rushed to hospital after
being shot while campaigning for Saturday's election, the
Presidential Office says. Chen was shot in the stomach at 1:45 p.m.
(0545 GMT) Friday but his condition was not critical, his office
said. The office said the president was conscious and that Chen had
urged for calm. Vice President Annette Lu was also wounded in the
attack. ... Chen and Lu had been driving on the back of a convertible
four-wheel drive vehicle in the president's hometown of Tainan when
an unknown gunman opened fire." (03/19/04)

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/taiwan.chen/

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3) NATO sends reinforcements to Kosovo
    MSNBC

"Ethnic Albanians torched Serb homes and churches Thursday as Kosovo
convulsed in a second day of violence, its worst since the province's
war ended in 1999. Serbian nationalists set mosques elsewhere on fire
and threatened to retaliate with 'slaughter and death,' and NATO sent
reinforcements to quell tensions in the U.N.-run province and ease
the threat of renewed conflict in the volatile Balkans." (03/18/04)

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4547376/

Libertarian seatbelt resister's case continued
    Algonquin Countryside

"Ken Prazak says he would rather go to jail than pay a $25 ticket for
not wearing his seat belt while driving through Algonquin [IL]. Come
April 30, the East Dundee resident will know whether he will be
sentenced to jail time. ... Prazak filed two motions to dismiss the
$25 seat belt ticket on the grounds the law is unconstitutional. One
motion states the law is a violation of the Ninth Amendment, which
allows a person to retain individual rights not covered in the
Constitution, and another motion claimed he was not afforded due
process as stated in the Fifth Amendment. The third motion was filed
to suppress evidence due to a lack of probable cause. 'They want me
to pay $137 for my right to a jury trial on a $25 ticket, it's
ridiculous,' Prazak said. Prazak is an active member of the local
Libertarian party, and hosts a radio talk show on an Elgin radio
station." (03/18/04)

http://tinyurl.com/2cxma

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7) Missouri legislature passes repeal of First Amendment
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"The abundance of outdoor sex advertisements also has caught the
attention of Missouri legislators, who are aggressively trying to cut
down on the signs. Separate bills approved by the state House and
Senate would ban most highway billboards for businesses where workers
appear nude or where more than 10 percent of the store space is used
to display pornography. Sexually oriented businesses located within
one mile of a highway would be allowed just two onsite billboards:
one with the name, address, phone number and operating hours of the
business, the other warning minors to keep out." (03/19/04)

http://tinyurl.com/25dh9
Program encourages public to snitch on drug-throwing dealers
    Montreal Gazette [Canada]

"In a bid to stop drug-filled tennis balls and arrows from being
hurled over prison fences, Leclerc penitentiary officials and Laval
police have launched a campaign asking the public for help. Laval
police plan to hand out more than 2,000 pamphlets in the coming days
to residents near the 44-year-old medium-security penitentiary,
asking them to watch for any suspicious behaviour. The program aims
to halt the practice of drug couriers using sports gear to send
narcotics to their customers in detention." (03/18/04)

http://tinyurl.com/23owh
Arizona Senate approves 80mph limit
    Arizona Republic

"Arizona state senators may be sending negative messages on highway
safety by clearing the way for 80-mph speeds on rural interstates and
rejecting a bill to allow police to pull over drivers not wearing
seat belts, activists say. 'I'm perplexed at the Legislature. They
are essentially saying 'no' to stronger seat belt laws and saying
'yes' to driving faster,' says Michael Frias, deputy director of the
Governor's Office of Highway Safety. The speed limit legislation ...
allows the Arizona Department of Transportation to raise the speed
limit to 80 from 75 mph on roads like Interstate 10 from Phoenix to
Tucson. If enacted, it would be the nation's highest speed limit. But
senators last Thursday voted 19-10 against a proposal [that] would
have allowed police to stop a driver solely for not wearing a belt.
Police can ticket for that now only after stopping a driver on
another violation." (03/18/04)

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0316limits16.html

WHO: Legal drugs pose greatest health threat
    MSNBC

"The health threat from legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco is much
greater than that from illegal narcotics, the World Health
Organization said Thursday. The first report of its kind by the
global body found that dependence on alcohol and cigarettes has a
much greater cost for societies than illegal drugs like cocaine and
crack." (03/18/04)

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4556847/

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