“Vice President Al Gore would back expansion of the United Nations’ power and peacekeeping operations as president, but Republican candidate George W. Bush said he would ‘never place U.S. troops under U.N. command’,” reports the Washington Times today. “When I am president, America will pay its dues – but only if the U.N.‘s bureaucracy is reformed and our disproportionate share of its costs reduced,” Mr. Bush said. https://washtimes.com/national/default-2000830223922.htm
A former Boy Scout troop leader will spend the rest of his life in prison after admitting just days before his trial was set to begin that he had sex with five young boys. https://www.news-star.com/stories/082700/new_scout.shtml
U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton may be jeopardizing America-Brazil relations over her support for abortion. “The Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo this week quoted US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as offering support to legalize abortion in Brazil if she is elected Senator,” reports CWNews.