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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Questions about possible civil liberties violations have been raised by a White House suggestion that airport security officers closely watch passengers -- and pay special attention to their baggage -- if they fit certain ?red flag? characteristics typical of known hijackers and terrorists. The proposal, part of a new series of recommendations from a White House aviation safety commission, also suggests that airlines should take steps to make sure that such passengers actually board the flights on which they?ve checked baggage. Despite language in the report stipulating that such profiles not be based on race, ethnicity or gender, civil...
...creation of a national holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr." The Daily News editorial says that Lott "praises--as [he] is warmly praised by--the Council of Conservative Citizens, widely regarded as the successor to the White Citizens Councils and the nation's leading defender of the Confederate flag...
...year with donors and backers. In previous administrations, a rigorous NSC investigation greeted every foreigner who came to the White House. But in the midst of the campaign, Ickes and Sosnik let the Democratic National Committee do the first round of vetting. If the D.N.C. didn't raise a flag, Lake was never alerted, which helps explain why a Chinese arms dealer was allowed through the White House gates to meet Clinton last year...
...podium, then praised him good-naturedly in the President's traditional post-Inauguration visit to the Hill. Along the frigid parade route late in the afternoon, the mood of celebration was infectious. The crowd sang along as the Tennessee band marched by playing "It's a Grand Old Flag," like thousands of others up and down Pennsylvania Avenue waving flags of their own. A woman who admitted that she was a Republican who loathes Clinton said well of course she had come to take in the day's celebration: "no matter who it is, it's still the Inauguration." Soon...
...from the day they first tested positive. Some even hid behind the virus as a lethal scare tactic, a way to fend off attachments with friends and family that they weren't sure they could handle. (One more paradox of the epidemic: even the Jolly Roger can be a flag of convenience.) Now they realize they may have to go back into the world and forge the kind of attachments that get you through a lifetime...