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NNA Breaking News Update 12/12/98
US News
1. Stormfront Mail Server Down Again
2. Jewish centers increase security
3. Police say Hirschfeld tried to hire killer
4. White Teen killed by Black felon in fight at high school
5. Teacher cites threats, asks for transfer
World News
6. Swiss Leader Seeks Debate With U.S.
7. Ex-U.S. Attorney Knocks FBI Agent over Jewish Crime Boss
8. As economy worsens, Mexicans face a bitter Christmas
9. Vatican Faulted For Not Opening Archives
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Stormfront Mail Server Down Again
As Stormfront tries to recover from an outage caused by hackers
earlier
this week, problems still remain. This time the Stormfront mail
server,
which provides NNA its mail service has not been working for two days.
Don Black, Stormfront's webmaster, assured us that our mail service
will be restored by tomorrow.
This outage will not effect NNA's Dialy Breaking News releases.
Vincent Breeding
NNA Editor
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[With so many supposed "Hate Crimes" being hoaxes it is amazing the
publicity these events receive.]
Jewish centers increase security
By GEORGE CORYELL of The Tampa Tribune
PALM HARBOR, Florida - Jewish centers in north Pinellas and Pasco
counties have been targets of hate mail in recent weeks.
Two Jewish centers are stepping up security measures after receiving
threatening letters from people who claim to be neo-Nazis.
The letters, glorifying Adolph Hitler and promising to ``continue
his work,'' were sent to the Jewish Community Center of West
Pasco/Congregation Beth Tefillah in Port Richey and a synagogue
in north Pinellas.
``I think it's people who don't know love,'' said Adelle Spigelman,
president of the Pasco center. ``They just hate and picked up on
someone who was the epitome of hate and pain and war.''
The rabbi of the Pinellas synagogue asked that his synagogue not be
named.
The letters, postmarked from Tampa, warn the congregations to leave
their temples and predict the rise of a ``Fourth Reich.''
Spigelman contacted the FBI, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office and
the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The sheriff's office has
increased patrols in the area, she said.
Ray Vel Boom, FDLE special agent supervisor for Pasco, Citrus,
Hernando and Sumter counties, said because the letter was unsigned,
there was little the agency could do.
But, he cautioned, ``You need to take the correspondence seriously.
Don't just ignore it.''
The Tampa Bay area had its share of proclamations and threats from
groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Church of the Avenger and the
National Alliance.
``Unfortunately this is not an unusual occurrence,'' said Art
Teitelbaum, southern area director of the Anti-Defamation League
and chairman of the FDLE Hate Crime Task Force.
``These are basically cowardly acts by gutter level bigots who hope
their threats will intimidate the Jewish community. They're wrong
about that.''
The West Pasco center was vandalized in April 1996, when someone
spray-painted swastikas and defecated on the doorstep. The vandals
crossed out part of the center's sign, changing ``Jewish Community
Center'' to ``Nazi Community Center.''
That act resulted in a strong show of community support behind the
center.
``We are here and we will stay here,'' Spigelman said. ``This is
our home.''
[To contact the National Alliance in Tampa, Florida, call
813-229-2405]
--
[Clinton's Jewish friend who payed off Paula Jones is back in the
news.]
Police say Hirschfeld tried to hire killer
NEW YORK - Abe Hirschfeld, the parking lot tycoon who offered Paula
Jones $1 million to settle her sexual harassment suit, was charged
with trying to have his former business partner killed.
Prosecutors said Hirschfeld, 79, gave an intermediary $75,000 last
year as a down payment for a hit man to kill Stanley Stahl, his real
estate investment partner of 40 years.
Stahl, 73, was alerted to the plot and was not hurt, but started
riding in a bulletproof car.
Hirschfeld was arrested late Wednesday at his Fifth Avenue home and
charged with criminal solicitation, which carries up to seven years
in prison.
State Supreme Court Justice Laura Drager set bail at $1 million but
released Hirschfeld on his own recognizance until Monday, when he
must post bail in cash or go to jail.
Hirschfeld called The Associated Press from the district attorney's
office Thursday and said that he was the victim of a frame- up by
two other people.
``They told me, `Abe, we are going to kill Stahl, give us a half-
million dollars.' I said, `I won't pay you five nickels. I don't
want Stahl killed,' and I hung up on them,'' he said.
In October, Hirschfeld offered Jones $1 million to settle her lawsuit
against President Clinton.
Hirschfeld and Stahl had a falling-out after their real estate
partnership went bad.
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White Teen killed by Black felon in fight at high school
The Orlando Sentinel Staff
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/121098_UNIV10.html
ORLANDO< FLORIDA - A single punch prompted by a racial slur killed
a 16-year-old student Wednesday during a quarrel at University High
School near Orlando.
Veteran school administrators could not remember the last time a
student died in a fight on an Orange County campus.
Mark Anthony Thornton, a junior, was fatally injured during a dispute
in the parking lot between the main campus and football stadium just
after school ended about 1:40 p.m.
Seven hours later, authorities arrested Omar Witt, a 20-year-old
Orlando man suspected of throwing the fatal punch. Witt, who does
not attend the school, has boxing experience, the Sheriff's Office
told deputies.
Student witnesses told investigators that the quarrel began after an
18-year-old female student complained that Thornton had been picking
on her. Prompted by that complaint, the girl's brother and two
friends, neither of them students, went to the school. One of those
friends, Witt, is black.
The outsiders left their pickup in the school parking lot and
confronted Thornton, who was leaving school for the day with some
friends.
"There was some conversation back and forth," said Cmdr. Steve Jones,
spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Office. "Friends were trying
to pull Thornton away. Then some idiot in the crowd yelled out some
racial slur."
The suspect apparently thought Thornton, who was white, made the
slur. Thornton denied it, but as he turned away, the suspect landed
a punch on his temple, Jones said. Thornton dropped to the ground and
did not get up.
The girl, her brother and the two friends left the campus, and
someone called 911.
As Principal Anna Diaz held Thornton's hand and called his name,
emergency workers tried to help the student. He was taken by ambulance
to Florida Hospital-East, where he was pronounced dead at 2:55 p.m.
Witt was arrested shortly before 9 p.m. in Winter Springs. Details
of the arrest were not immediately available.
Police records show at least four previous arrests for Witt, starting
with a drug possession charge in November 1995. A University High
resource officer made that arrest, but Jones could not confirm whether
Witt was a student at the time.
Witt was charged with driving with a suspended drivers license in
September 1997, with carrying a concealed firearm in February and
with violation of probation in October. He was released from jail
Nov. 2.
School administrators and students said Thornton did not seem like
the kind of person to cause trouble.
"Mark was very respectful. He always said, 'Yes, yes ma'am' and 'No
ma'am,' " said the shaken Diaz, who has been principal at the school
for only four months. "He had good manners."
During a Wednesday night wrestling meet at the school, students
described Thornton as a courteous teen who would not pick on others
and was quick with a smile.
"He was an awesome kid. He was just really sweet," said junior Sara
Morris, 17. "He was always trying to walk away from trouble."
Senior Jamie Justensen, 18, said she met Thornton through an
agriculture class and the Future Farmers of America.
"He was a good old country boy. He never started any fight," she
said. "He wasn't a really loud, rowdy person."
The school arranged for extra counselors to meet with students today,
but did not cancel any school events or otherwise alter the routine .
"It will be a very quiet day," Diaz said.
School district officials planned to review security at University
High, which has about 3,330 students. They said it was hard to imagine
how the incident could have been avoided, however.
Hundreds of students and parents circulate in the driveway after
school every day, entering through the same gate the suspect and his
friends used Wednesday, Diaz said.
"It wasn't like we could say, that car is an outsider," she said.
Students who stay after class for activities ranging from cheerleading
to drama said fights at the school are rare.
"This is the first fight I've heard of all year," said Porsche Cox,
a senior.
Cox and fellow cheerleader Bri O'Neill said they felt safe at the
school off Rouse Road.
"It's a pretty nice, preppy school," said Happy Coffey, a freshman.
"If you have an all-around good personality, you can hang with all
or any of the groups."
Although the campus has its social groups, such as "surfers"
"cowboys" and "preps," they are racially mixed, students said.
The students said they did not think the confrontation Wednesday
was racially motivated.
Jones described the fight as "one kid losing his temper, one kid
losing his cool." He said he did not know what had happened between
Thornton and the girl to make her so upset.
"Kids don't realize one punch can kill. Now one kid is dead, and
another faces charges that could be anything from manslaughter to
first-degree murder," Jones said.
Deputies milled about in the parking lot on the west side of the
school Wednesday afternoon, and yellow crime-scene tape outlined a
dozen parking spaces where the fight took place.
After-school activities went on as usual. Students played pickup
basketball yards away from where Thornton fell.
This kind of violence has been rare in Orange County schools.
No one was hurt when an Orlando man fired a gun three to five times
during a fight that disrupted football practice at Dr. Phillips High
School in October.
A Jones High School student was killed accidentally in 1994 when a
handgun brought by a classmate fell to the floor of a classroom and
discharged.
Joe Joyner, an area superintendent who has worked for the school
system since 1980, said he could not recall another instance before
Wednesday in which a fight led to a fatality.
--
[The real title of this article should read "White teacher threatened
after 'trying to get along'". Blacks have low self-esteem. They are
self-conscious about their primitive looks. That's why even the
slightest brush with the truth about their inferiority invokes their
indignation. Diversity is divisive. Geographical separation is the
only
cure for 'racism'.]
Teacher cites threats, asks for transfer
NEW YORK - A white teacher accused of racial insensitivity for reading
a book titled Nappy Hair to her black and Hispanic pupils requested a
transfer out of her Brooklyn school district Monday, saying she fears
for her life.
"I can't take the fear and wondering every day what might happen,"
Ruth Sherman said. She said district officials approved her request
with regret.
Board of Education spokesman J.D. LaRock said the transfer will
probably take about a week to go through.
Sherman, 27, has not returned to her third-grade class since Tuesday.
During a school meeting, residents of the city's Bushwick section
yelled racial epithets and profanities at her and threatened her for
reading the acclaimed children's book Nappy Hair to her students.
The word "nappy" is sometimes used as a derogatory term to describe a
black person's hair.
The book was written by Carolivia Herron, who is black and has said
there is nothing racist in the book.
Sherman has said she was using it to teach her children a lesson in
how to get along despite racial differences.
The teacher was offered extra security but said the idea kept her
awake at night.
"I kept having these terrible nightmares that I was teaching and there
were these two big security guards standing at my door," she said.
"Who can teach like that?"
She added: "The poor children must be so confused right now.
Everything
I tried to teach them about getting along and togetherness has been
thrown out the window."
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World News
Swiss Leader Seeks Debate With U.S.
GENEVA (AP) - Switzerland's first Jewish president says she plans
to use the post to speak out in the debate about her country's role
in World War II.
In an interview published Thursday, Ruth Dreifuss said she has kept
a low profile because foreign affairs previously was not her domain
and because she didn't want to be seen as the government's ``token
Jew.''
``I have always refused to speak as the token Jew of our government,''
Dreifuss told the daily newspaper Le Temps.
``It will be different in my role as president, which gives me much
clearer legitimacy,'' Dreifuss said. ``It's an opportunity I intend
to seize both in this country and abroad.''
The largely ceremonial post rotates among the seven members of the
Cabinet, where Dreifuss, of the left-of-center Social Democrats, is
the minister for social and health affairs. Her presidency, approved
Wednesday by a parliamentary vote, is valid for a year.
During the search for the assets of Holocaust victims in Swiss banks
during the past 3 1/2 years, Switzerland has come under heavy
criticism from international Jewish organizations and the U.S.
government.
Dreifuss, 58, suggested she was in a better position to comment on
the criticism than other members of the Cabinet, in part because of
her background.
Dreifuss was born in 1940, soon after the outbreak of World War II.
Her early memories included the constant fear that Germany would
invade neutral Switzerland, she said in an interview Thursday in
the weekly L'Hebdo.
Her father lost his job in textile imports and exports when he was
caught in a network helping falsify documents for people fleeing the
Holocaust.
Of some 60,000 Jews who sought refuge in Switzerland during the war,
about half were turned back.
Dreifuss has said the Swiss government should compensate Jews who
were sent back. The Nazis sent many straight into concentration
camps.
A ``moving moment in our encounter with the past'' will come next
spring when an international panel of historians appointed by the
Swiss government reports on the wartime refugee policy, Dreifuss
said.
``I will have to comment on it, to launch the debate,'' she said.
``It will also give me a chance to explain better to Jewish
organizations where they are totally justified and legitimate in
their demands and where they are less so. I think I will be able
to do a lot and I don't have any complexes with Jewish
representatives.''
She said she knows the United States and the way the international
Jewish community functions better than her colleagues.
Dreifuss, also the first Swiss woman to be president, said, ``the
election of a Jewish female president of the confederation
demonstrates that what would have been impossible just a few years
ago has become normal.''
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Ex-U.S. Attorney Knocks FBI Agent over Jewish Crime Boss
GENEVA (AP) - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, testifying
in defense of a reputed Russian crime boss, today urged a Swiss court
to disregard evidence submitted last week by a retired FBI agent.
Appearing as a defense witness for Sergei Mikhailov, Clark told the
Geneva correctional court that an American court would never have
allowed the testimony that Robert Levinson gave last Thursday.
``He has never said that he went to Russia and personally witnessed
anything,'' said Clark, who served in the Johnson administration.
Mikhailov, 40, is charged with membership in a criminal organization.
Swiss prosecutors allege that he is head of the Moscow-based
Solntsevskaya organization.
As a special FBI agent, Levinson said he spent four years studying
Russian organized crime and worked on the case against Vyacheslav
Ivankov, whom a New York court last year sentenced to nearly 10
years in prison on charges including extortion.
Levinson said unnamed sources had told him that Mikhailov had
personally commanded two ``combat brigades'' specializing in
assassination and that his organization had taken over businesses
in several American cities.
But Clark said that Levinson had based his testimony on ``general
information, gossip, reports from the media and deliberately planted
misinformation.''
As attorney general, Clark oversaw a sixfold increase in the number
of cases brought against organized crime figures, yet he said it was
not strange that he now was testifying for the defense in such a case.
``It is a healthy society where you can change from one side to
the other and an unhealthy society where you can't, if you are
looking for the truth,'' Clark said.
Mikhailov's trial is in its second week. If convicted he faces a
maximum prison term of seven and a half years.
--
[Expect more enriching immigration as Mexico falls even further.]
As economy worsens, Mexicans face a bitter Christmas
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Eight-year-old Francisco Martinez remembers the
Christmases of years past. There would be a big dinner, a
Christmas tree and - best of all - presents beneath it.
This year he doesn't expect any gifts. He doesn't expect much of
a dinner. He doesn't even expect a tree. His family hasn't
celebrated their usual Christmas since 1995, when an economic
meltdown dumped it and most of Mexico's middle-class into poverty.
``Santa Claus no longer exists for most Mexicans,'' Francisco's
grandmother Dolores said. ``We no longer even mention him to
Francisco. He knows how things really are.''
Bad as things are, most Mexicans fear they will get worse if
President Ernesto Zedillo's 1999 budget proposal is approved.
Congress has until Tuesday to modify and pass a budget that even
in the best-case scenario will be the most austere in modern history.
The budget crunch comes from the multibillion-dollar losses caused
by a record fall in oil prices. Oil exports represent one-third of
all government income.
It is compounded by a $67 billion bailout of private banks that
most Mexicans see as benefiting wealthy bankers with government
ties at the expense of poor taxpayers.
Opposition lawmakers want the federal government to tighten its
belt, getting rid of obscure agencies and reducing the salaries
and perks of top officials.
Zedillo, in turn, has proposed higher taxes, including an extra 2
percent on top of the 15 percent sales tax, a new 15 percent
surcharge on phone service and a 31 percent increase in gasoline
prices.
Prices for staples such as tortillas and busfare have risen sharply,
while the minimum wage - around $3.40 a day - has failed to keep
pace.
``We used to eat tortillas and beans,'' Martinez said. ``Now we're
down to tortillas with hot sauce.''
Martinez, her son and daughter-in-law and Francisco live in a
middle-class house with few possessions inside in the Gulf of
Mexico port of Tampico, 210 miles northeast of Mexico City.
Together, the family makes about $100 a month, making the $100,000
they owe on the house seem unreachable. The debt built up as interest
rates jumped to more than 100 percent a year in the 1995 economic
crisis. They now hover around 35 percent.
Until now, the family had suffered silently. But the new budget
proposals were too much.
So Martinez, her daughter-in-law Juanita and Francisco got on a
bus to the capital, to join thousands of protesters who have been
camping under plastic sheeting and in buses outside Mexico's Congress
since Tuesday to plead for changes in Zedillo's budget.
The protest was organized by El Barzon, a nationwide group of
middle-class Mexicans driven to bankruptcy by soaring interest
rates after the 1994-95 crisis that marked the beginning of
Zedillo's administration.
El Barzon's protests have been getting bigger and louder as Mexicans
take to the streets.
The protesters ``represent the nationwide irritation against
Zedillo's economic policy,'' said Rep. Carlos Heredia of the
left-center Democratic Revolution Party. He donated $120 on
Thursday to help feed the Martinez family and other protesters
from his native Tampico.
Outraged by the bailout plan, the right-center National Action
Party even proposed a constitutional amendment that would create
a presidential impeachment law.
The Barzon protesters say they'll camp outside Congress until
legislators pass the 1999 budget, which will contain provisions
on the bank bailout and a program to help small- and medium-sized
debtors.
For the Martinez family, any kind of relief would represent a big
break.
And a chance to buy Francisco some new toys.
--
Vatican Faulted For Not Opening Archives
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Vatican has refused to fully open its
archives from the Holocaust era, raising suspicions it has ''something
to hide'' from its association with the Nazis, a British investigator
said Wednesday.
Lord Janner, chairman of the Holocaust Education Trust, told reporters
he had no reply from Rome despite repeated inquiries. ``If the Vatican
has nothing to hide, they should open it (archives) up,'' he said.
Janner spoke on the fringes of a U.S.-hosted international conference
that is discussing how to compensate Holocaust survivors for billions
of dollars in art, communal property and insurance claims seized by
the Nazis.
``We are certain that into the Vatican came not only human beings --
SS (Nazi police) people on their way out -- but property, art,
assets. We have no idea what. And we're saying to them, as we do to
every other country and authority, please tell us what happened.
Please tell us the truth,'' he told reporters.
This is needed so that the truth can be known and so that -- where
appropriate and possible -- restitution can be made to the survivors,
he said.
Janner said he does not believe Pope John II is aware of the problem.
Janner also named 11 companies that used slave labor from Nazi
concentration camps and said the release reflected a new focus with
broad implications requiring compensation of survivors.
``This is a massive new investigation with huge implications all over
the world, including the United States,'' he said.
Janner said the following companies were found to have used slave
labor from Nazi camps in the following pursuits: AEG (electronics);
BMW (aircraft engines); Daimler-Benz (aircraft engines); Dresdner
Bank (construction); Dynamit Nobel (explosives); I.G. Farben
(synthetic fuel); Ford (trucks).
Also: Knorr (food processing); Krupp (munitions); Siemens
(electronics,
underground factory construction); Volkswagen (munitions, armored
cars, rockets).
Janner said the trust just completed a report on the issue of Nazi
slave labor that found about a million Jews died as a result of slave
labor. There were 7.7 million non-Jewish slave laborers under Nazi
control in late 1944, he said.
``I believe that these companies which are today run in a moral and
decent way by honorable people will wish to make appropriate amends.
There may be legal implications of a massive kind -- claims made
against them -- but equally there is a huge moral obligation,'' he
said.
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