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News Two US citizens plead not guilty to terror charges
Two US citizens plead not guilty to terror charges
David Shucosky
June 29, 2005 10:36:00 am

Two US citizens pleaded not guilty to terror-related charges against them in federal court on Tuesday. Tarik Shah, 42, of New York, and Rafik Abdus Sabir, 50, of Boca Raton, Florida, each face a single count of conspiracy to...

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News Former Milosevic officials sentenced for attempted assassination of rival
Former Milosevic officials sentenced for attempted assassination of rival
David Shucosky
June 29, 2005 10:25:00 am

A Serbian court Wednesday sentenced 10 former members of the Slobodan Milosevic regime to jail for their roles in 1999 assassination attempt on then-Yugoslav opposition leader Vuk Draskovic . Draskovic is now the Minister of...

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News Saddam said to have turned down US death penalty deal
Saddam said to have turned down US death penalty deal
David Shucosky
June 29, 2005 09:41:00 am

Al-Quds al-Arabi , a London-based Arabic-language newspaper, reported Wednesday that Saddam Hussein turned down an offer from US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to take the death penalty off the table in his upcoming trial...

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News Europe rights group urges US to drop subpoenas against journalists
Europe rights group urges US to drop subpoenas against journalists
David Shucosky
June 29, 2005 09:33:00 am

The intergovernmental Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has urged US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to drop subpoenas against two journalists demanding that they name their sources to a grand jury investigating the leak of a...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Scrushy acquitted on all charges in corporate fraud trial
BREAKING NEWS ~ Scrushy acquitted on all charges in corporate fraud trial
David Shucosky
June 28, 2005 01:04:00 pm

A jury has found former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy not guilty on charges of wire and mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act . Scrushy was the first CEO to be charged...

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Australian anti-terror raids draw criticism
David Shucosky
June 28, 2005 11:27:00 am

Australian officials Tuesday announced a new series of anti-terror raids in Sydney and Melbourne, re-igniting a debate over the country's tough anti-terrorism laws. No arrests were made or individuals detained as a result of the second sweep in a...

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News Computer-chip maker AMD sues Intel for anti-trust violations
Computer-chip maker AMD sues Intel for anti-trust violations
David Shucosky
June 28, 2005 09:52:00 am

Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) announced Tuesday that it has filed a federal anti-trust lawsuit against rival chip-maker Intel . The suit was filed yesterday in US District...

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News Israeli soldier to face military hearing for refusing to help Gaza disengagement
Israeli soldier to face military hearing for refusing to help Gaza disengagement
David Shucosky
June 28, 2005 09:20:00 am

An American-born Israeli soldier who refused to participate in the evacuation of settlers from Gaza will face a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday, pending a possible continuance by his lawyer. Cpl. Avi Bieber was pulled away by...

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News Russian released from Guantanamo sues US for alleged abuses
Russian released from Guantanamo sues US for alleged abuses
David Shucosky
June 28, 2005 09:18:00 am

A Muslim Russian national held at Guantanamo from summer 2002 to February 2004 has filed a lawsuit against the US government alleging rights abuses. At a press conference on Tuesday in Moscow Airat Vakhitov - formerly...

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News Pakistan high court orders re-arrest of 13 in gang-rape case
Pakistan high court orders re-arrest of 13 in gang-rape case
David Shucosky
June 28, 2005 08:17:00 am

Pakistan's Supreme Court Tuesday overturned the acquittals of 13 men in a gang-rape case and ordered them re-arrested after an appeal by the victim, Mukhtar Mai . The attack was supposedly ordered by village elders in...

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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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