Crossfire transcript: Sen. John McCain calls for resolve in Yugoslavia

Aired April 1, 1999

April 2, 1999
Web posted at: 10:02 a.m. EST (1502 GMT)

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WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: President Milosevic should make no mistake: The United States takes care of its own.

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BILL PRESS, CO-HOST: Tonight, as three American soldiers remain captive in Yugoslavia, President Clinton issues a stern warning. How far should the United States go to secure their release? We ask a United States senator who was once a prisoner of war.

ANNOUNCER: Live, from Washington, CROSSFIRE. On the left, Bill Press. On the right, Robert Novak. In the crossfire, in Phoenix, Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, a member of the Armed Services Committee.

PRESS: Good evening. Welcome to CROSSFIRE.

Tonight, the war in Yugoslavia has a human face, three of them. Three American servicemen captured and held by Serbian forces.

The Pentagon says they were part of U.N. peacekeeping forces patrolling the border of Macedonia, not part of NATO attack forces. The Yugoslav army says they were on Serb territory and resisted arrests.

As Yugoslavia prepared to haul the three Americans before a military court tomorrow, President Clinton warned President Slobodan Milosevic he would be held personally responsible.

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Sexual assault still too taboo for public airing
Nina Funnell
March 27, 2008

Last year I wrote an article detailing my experience of fighting off an attack by a man in a street in Hunters Hill. I was grabbed from behind, held at knifepoint, bashed and threatened with rape and murder. Now, 10 months after the attack and after enough therapy to put Freud’s first patient “Dora” to shame, I feel comfortable returning to the event and to the aftermath of going public.

It is a curious thing to speak out publicly as a survivor of sexual assault. Since doing so, dozens of people have “come out” to me as fellow survivors. What has surprised me is not the number but the nature of these individuals. Just as a rapist does not walk around with a capital R on his forehead, so too a victim doesn’t walk around with a capital V.

While most people who confided in me were strangers, some in my own life have disclosed their stories. These include one of my most respected high-school teachers, a university lecturer, one of my most talented students, a barrister at a leading Sydney law firm, a senior journalist with a major magazine and a friend who was dux at high school and university.

U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe held special hearings devoted to Russia on Thursday. The Commission came to a conclusion which is flattering to Russia: the latter is returning to the international arena as an influential political and economic power. At the same time, the Commission noted this process is accompanied by exacerbating differences between the U.S. and Russia. Moscow is really confident of its powers and does not intend to change its policy. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Luxembourg on Thursday that the West “has few instruments of influence on Russia left”.

by Brian C. Ledbetter

The life of a blogger will occasionally resemble that of Buffalo Bill Cody’s stories of old. And, much like the lead-slingers of times long past, we sometimes get nicked.

For the past year and a half, I’ve been writing Snapped Shot, a blog that focuses on providing commentary, analysis, and the occasional exposé on professional photojournalism. Looking through the product of the photo newswire services daily and pointing out anything that seems out of the ordinary. Looking for possible counterfeiting in Lebanon. The ever-raging Rage Boy. Mystery missiles, unfired bullets, and playground munitions (oh my). All in all, it’s proven to be quite an entertaining hobby to keep my spare time occupied, and has introduced me to a terrific bunch of people.

Then, one day, a volley of proverbial bullets appeared on my porch, neatly wrapped in a FedEx envelope. The label said it all, the gunslinger having put their return address ever so neatly on the envelope. The Associated Press had sent me a friendly little care package.

The counsel for the Associated Press had fired the first warning shot, informing me that it was their opinion that Snapped Shot was in violation of their copyright.

Time Magazine

Monday, May. 12, 1941
Holy Skirmish

With a terrible, pregnant symbolism, World War II jumped last week from the birthplace of democracy to the birthplace of mankind. Five days after Athens fell, fighting broke out in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden. In its beginning the new conflict was a minor embarrassment to Britain; in its potentialities it was a threat as serious as any the British Empire had yet suffered.

A few days before Germany’s Balkan campaign, a pro-German Arab nationalist, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani, overthrew five-year-old Monarch Feisal II’s pro-British Regent. Because of the threat implicit in this coup, the British sent 1,200 troops to Basra, Iraq’s main port, at the head of the Persian Gulf. El-Gailani acquiesced in the landing and publicly subscribed to the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty of Alliance which justified it (”The aid of . . . Iraq in the event of war or the imminent menace of war will consist in . . . use of railways, rivers, ports, aerodromes and means of communication”).

(CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton’s advisers blasted Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign Monday after a major Obama supporter referenced the blue dress that was at the heart of former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal.

Sen. John McCain, back from his trip to the Middle East and Europe, heads to California for fundraisers.

 Gordon Fischer, a former chair of the Iowa Democratic Party and part of Obama’s Iowa support team, also compared Bill Clinton unfavorably to Joe McCarthy.

McCarthy was a senator who was known for leveling accusations that people were Communists or spying for the Russians in the 1950s.

“When Joe McCarthy questioned others’ patriotism,