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Bosnian Serb general surrenders to ICTY on Srebrenica charges
Jeannie Shawl
March 23, 2005 05:36:00 pm

As expected , former Bosnian Serb general Vinko Pandurevic surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Wednesday. Pandurevic is alleged to have been one of the commanders in charge of...

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BREAKING NEWS ~ Florida Senate votes down Schiavo bill
Jeannie Shawl
March 23, 2005 04:43:00 pm

The Florida Senate has just voted against SB 804 that would have prohibited the suspension of sustenance or hydration of a person in persistent vegetative state when family members disagree on the course of action based on...

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State appeals court says insurance must pay Kozlowski’s legal fees
Jeannie Shawl
March 23, 2005 03:16:00 pm

A New York appeals court has ruled that Federal Insurance, the company that insured Tyco International executives, must pay the legal bills for former CEO Dennis Kozlowski, who is currently on trial on charges...

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Italian senate passes constitutional reform bill
Jeannie Shawl
March 23, 2005 02:40:00 pm

The Italian Senate Wednesday approved a broad constitutional reform bill that will increase the prime minister's executive authority, minimize the risk that governments will collapse mid-term, redistribute power between the houses of parliament, and...

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UK announces controls on use of secret intelligence
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March 23, 2005 02:13:00 pm

UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Jack Straw has announced reforms to the way Britain uses its secret intelligence. Straw announced the reforms Wednesday as part of a written statement to Parliament on...

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North American agreement on security, trade unveiled
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March 23, 2005 01:30:00 pm

President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, and Mexican President Vicente Fox Wednesday unveiled the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America , a pact which seeks to broaden cooperation on security and economic issues. Included...

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March 23, 2005 12:57:00 pm

US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. has extended a temporary restraining order barring the US from transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to the custody of foreign countries. Judge Kennedy extended the restraining order for...

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EU rejects Microsoft plan to comply with antitrust sanctions
Jeannie Shawl
March 23, 2005 12:35:00 pm

The European Commission said Wednesday that it has rejected part of Microsoft's plan to comply with sanctions that were imposed last year after the Commission found that Microsoft violated European antitrust laws [decision text, PDF;...

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March 23, 2005 08:16:00 am

Federal prosecutors have asked to intervene in the Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against former Hollinger CEO Conrad Black , former company president David Radler, and Hollinger, Inc., confirming for the first time that they are...

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EU Council works to avoid French rejection of European constitution
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March 23, 2005 07:48:00 am

European leaders are rallying around French President Jacques Chirac and trying to avoid a negative French vote on the European constitution by calling for revisions of European Union economic reform plans at the...

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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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