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News Argentina judge declares former Iranian president ‘fugitive’
Argentina judge declares former Iranian president ‘fugitive’
Caitlin Price
December 2, 2006 09:25:00 am

Argentinean judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral declared former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other Iranian officials fugitives from justice on Friday. The nine failed to respond to arrest warrants issued...

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News Saddam genocide trial prosecutor says tapes prove guilt for gas attacks
Saddam genocide trial prosecutor says tapes prove guilt for gas attacks
Caitlin Price
November 26, 2006 02:23:00 pm

The chief prosecutor in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial said Sunday that audio tapes and documentation proving that Hussein personally ordered the 1988 gassing of Kurdish villagers will be submitted to the court hearing his case. Munqith...

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UN Security Council approves Hariri tribunal proposal
Caitlin Price
November 21, 2006 08:38:00 pm

The UN Security Council Tuesday approved a proposal for an international tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri . In a letter from the 15-person body...

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News Third US Marine sentenced to 21 months in Hamdania Iraqi civilian murder case
Third US Marine sentenced to 21 months in Hamdania Iraqi civilian murder case
Caitlin Price
November 21, 2006 07:58:00 pm

US Marine Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr. was sentenced to a maximum 21-month confinement Tuesday after pleading guilty at court-martial to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the alleged murder and kidnapping...

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House Democrat to introduce military draft bill
Caitlin Price
November 19, 2006 03:49:00 pm

US Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) said Sunday he plans to introduce legislation in the next session of Congress to reinstate the military draft in the United States. Interviewed on CBS TV program Face the Nation [program website;...

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Iran parliament passes US visitor fingerprinting bill despite Ahmadinejad
Caitlin Price
November 19, 2006 03:03:00 pm

Iran's parliament passed a bill Sunday instituting mandatory fingerprinting of all visiting US citizens. The predominantly conservative Majlis passed the bill by a margin of 135 to 26, and will next hand it to the...

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Cheney signals White House to continue backing conservative judges
Caitlin Price
November 18, 2006 11:36:00 am

Vice President Dick Cheney told the Federalist Society annual meeting in Washington Friday that the Bush administration plans to continue nominating conservative judges to the federal courts notwithstanding new Democratic control of Congress and...

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UN committee wants ‘political’ condemnations for rights abuses halted
Caitlin Price
November 18, 2006 10:40:00 am

The UN General Assembly Third Committee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs has approved a draft resolution calling for an end to politically motivated condemnations of countries for human rights violations. The resolution, adopted Thursday, says...

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Iraqi PM unaware of plan to arrest top Sunni
Caitlin Price
November 18, 2006 10:03:00 am

A close associate of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told AP Friday that al-Maliki was unaware of a controversial plan by Shiite Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani to arrest Sunni leader Harith...

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Democrats introducing bill to continue Iraq inspector general
Caitlin Price
November 12, 2006 04:17:00 pm

Democrats in the US Congress will introduce legislation this week to maintain the authority of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) , according to the New York Times Sunday. SIGIR was originally established to independently supervise...

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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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