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DeLay asks Texas judge to throw out conspiracy charges
Christopher G. Anderson
November 22, 2005 01:27:00 pm

US Rep. Tom DeLay on Tuesday asked a Texas judge to dismiss the felony conspiracy charges against him. Senior Judge Pat Priest refused to make an immediate ruling on the case, saying he wanted...

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Japan PM unveils draft constitutional amendment
Christopher G. Anderson
November 22, 2005 12:59:00 pm

Leaders of the Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to amend the military clause in the country's pacifist constitution in an effort to create armed forces that are assertive on an international...

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News Russian prison officials denying access to Khodorkovsky lawyers
Russian prison officials denying access to Khodorkovsky lawyers
Christopher G. Anderson
November 22, 2005 11:57:00 am

Prison officials at Russia's Krasnokamensk penitentiary, which is holding jailed oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky , is deliberately hampering the work of his defense lawyers, according to a statement Tuesday on Khodorkovsky's defense website....

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News UN official reinstated after losing job over oil-for-food scandal
UN official reinstated after losing job over oil-for-food scandal
Christopher G. Anderson
November 15, 2005 01:42:00 pm

The only United Nations official to lose his job over the oil-for-food scandal has been reinstated, after an internal appellate body found that he had not violated staff rules . Joseph Stephanides was...

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News Ex-Serb soldier admits to executing 200 Croatian POWs in Vukovar massacre
Ex-Serb soldier admits to executing 200 Croatian POWs in Vukovar massacre
Christopher G. Anderson
November 15, 2005 01:07:00 pm

A former Serbian soldier admitted in a special high-security court in Belgrade on Tuesday that he participated in the November 1991 execution of about 200 Croatian prisoners of war at a pig farm. The testimony by Ivan...

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Ex-Chad president held in Senegal on crimes against humanity charges
Christopher G. Anderson
November 15, 2005 12:43:00 pm

Hissene Habre , the former president of Chad wanted by a Belgian court for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during his rule, has been arrested and is being held in Senegal, lawyers said Tuesday. Habre has...

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Australian Gitmo detainee military trial delayed
Christopher G. Anderson
November 15, 2005 12:06:00 pm

The military commission trial of Australian David Hicks , who has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for more than 3 1/2 years, was postponed on Monday by a US district judge until the US Supreme...

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Five former Enron execs reindicted after mistrial
Christopher G. Anderson
November 10, 2005 03:51:00 pm

A federal grand jury has issued 31 new indictments against five former Enron executives, five months after their original case ended in acquittal and mistrial . Among those facing charges are Joseph Hirko, the former...

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Federal judge blocks Michigan video game law
Christopher G. Anderson
November 10, 2005 03:07:00 pm

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against a Michigan law that banned retailers from selling or renting violent video games to minors. US District Judge George Steeh ruled Wednesday that the statute could not be...

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US denies using white phosphorus in Iraq, admits using napalm-like substance
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November 10, 2005 02:25:00 pm

The United States military has again denied several allegations that forces used white phosphorus against Iraqi civilians during a 2004 military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah. The military did, however, confirm...

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Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.

Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted Vietnam antiwar bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution.

Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts. See Anthony D'Amato, Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War [PDF], 4 Journal of Law Reform (1970).

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