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BILL BEHAVING BADLY- Impeached President Bill Clinton's behavior was called "odd' and "staMe"by a Clinton insider two Sundays ago when he left Hillary at the White House and set off for a deserted Army-Navy Country Club to play a full round of golf-by himself, in the ram and ending up in the pitch dark One witness saw the President "swinging wildly and hitting balls everywhere."

LSC TRIUMPHS: Despite all the evidence of massive fraud in overstating the number of clients served and cases handled by its grantees, the Legal Services Corp. (LSC) preserved its funding for the next fiscal year at $300 million, the same as last year The LSC is supposed to distribute federal money to legal aid groups for the poor, but much of it goes to fund far-left causes or to defend criminals on technicalities. The funding is included in the Commerce-Justice-State appropriations bill and will almost certainly remain no matter what changes in that bill may be demanded by President Clinton. The LSC had sought an increase to $340 million.

MESSAGE FROM AUSTRIA: In focusing on the second-place finish of the conservative Freedom Party in the recent Austrian elections, much of the international media highlighted its opposition to immigration and the European Union, and what they deemed, with very little evidence, the proNazi sentiments of party leader Joerg Haider. What most of the media overlooked, however, was Haider's strong emphasis on the free market, including calls for a 23% flat tax and breaking up of stateowned monopolies, including the government-run television network, which Haider blames for the bad press he has received outside of Austria.

GO, PAT, GO: Many Republicans lamented Pat Buchanan's defection to the Reform Party, fearing that he was only decreasing the influence of conservatives within the GOP and could possibly help elect a Democratic President in a close election next year. But with champagne and joyous faces, the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's largest homosexual Republican organization, and Republicans for Choice toasted farewell to -Buchanan in a private celebration. The small group meets regularly, but this event was a special occasion to mark the day, October 25, that Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party Rich Wel, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, said that Pat's departure will "help the party with mainstream voters." Ann Stone, chairwoman of Republicans for Choice, passed out a list of 12 reasons "why you should remain or become a Republican." No. 12 was that it annoys Pat Buchanan. Several members listed other Republicans they dislike such as Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.). Stone praised Reform Gov. Jesse Ventura Minn.) on his pro-choice stance, saying he could be invited into the party someday.

SECOND THOUGHTS: Ted Turner is apparently only so flaky. His United Nations Foundation, which is supposed to subsidize the United Nations' already enormous budget with $1 billion out of Turner's personal fortune, had planned to match a federal grant for

UN land-mine removal. According to the Washington Times (Oct. 25, 1999), however, the foundation canceled its plans when it found that it would not control the matching federal money. Turner's money will instead go to the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (WAF) and the UN Mum Action Service. "We've set up a partnership with the UN,- said David Harwood, spokesman for the United Nations Foundation. "The money donated comes through our program... for expenditure control. The money will now go directly to the WAF. It will not get our match." The decision means $190,416 less for the fashionable cause of land mine removal. Harwood said that the unfashionable Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, blocked Turner's foundation from controlling the tax dollars.

HOLD rr KOFI, SAYS SESSIONS: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has a new opponent in Rep. Pete Sessions (R.-Tex.). Following the recent United Nations Development Program's 1999 Human Development Report proposing that a "bit tax" be levied on all data sent through the Internet in UN memher nations, Sessions introduced a House resolution imploring the administration to reject the tax on the grounds that "Americans are by far the greatest users of the Internet and would thus be disproportionately affected by any global tax' " Sessions also called the proposed UN tariff "a threat to the sovereignty of the United States" and a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

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