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News UN delegates pledge closer cooperation in fighting crime, terror
UN delegates pledge closer cooperation in fighting crime, terror
Russell Adkins
April 25, 2005 09:21:00 pm

Admitting that nations cannot effectively tackle the issues alone, delegates to the UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Bangkok, Thailand, concluded their session Monday by pledging international cooperation and an integrated approach in international...

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Frist, Reid working toward compromise on judicial nominees
Russell Adkins
April 25, 2005 08:56:00 pm

Senate leaders Bill Frist and Harry Reid have been meeting privately in hopes of reaching a deal in which Senate Democrats would allow confirmation of at least two of President Bush's seven disputed nominees for appellate judgeships,...

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US clears soldiers in death of Italian in Iraq
Russell Adkins
April 25, 2005 08:17:00 pm

A US investigation into the accidental shooting death of an Italian agent in Iraq by American soldiers has cleared the troops of the wrongdoing, an Army official said Monday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official also said that...

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Accused al Qaeda leader denies connection to hijackers
Russell Adkins
April 25, 2005 07:43:00 pm

Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, the suspected leader of al Qaeda in Spain, has denied any connection to Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta , as well as accusations that he helped arrange a planning meeting between Atta and another...

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News Milosevic war crimes trial back on after cardiac scare
Milosevic war crimes trial back on after cardiac scare
Russell Adkins
April 25, 2005 10:31:00 am

Following yet another interruption because of his health problems, the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Monday at the International Court Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . Milosevic stayed out of...

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Ex-WorldCom CEO seeks new trial
Russell Adkins
April 18, 2005 08:44:00 pm

Citing allegedly unfair rulings by a US District Court judge Barbara Jones, former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers , convicted in March of orchestrating an $11 billion accounting fraud that led to the telecommunications giant's downfall,...

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Contentious vote set for UN nominee Bolton
Russell Adkins
April 18, 2005 07:57:00 pm

Following heated confirmation hearings last week, a showdown vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set for Tuesday over John Bolton , President Bush's nominee for the UN ambassador. Bolton has been characterized by his...

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Ninth Circuit allows Nazi gold suit against Vatican Bank
Russell Adkins
April 18, 2005 07:42:00 pm

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that claims against the Vatican Bank made by Eastern European survivors of the Holocaust should be heard in federal court. While Supreme Court decisions restrict the roles federal...

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New military report on Gitmo detainees cited to support interrogation policies
Russell Adkins
April 18, 2005 10:21:00 am

US military officials are citing a recent overview of information obtained from Guantanamo detainees as evidence that the military should be able to conduct operations at Camp Delta without intervention from the US court system. The unclassified document ,...

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Federal bill would require pharmacists to fill contraception prescriptions
Russell Adkins
April 14, 2005 09:11:00 pm

In response to recent refusals by some pharmacists objecting on moral grounds to filling prescriptions for emergency contraceptives or birth control pills, federal legislators unveiled a draft bill on Thursday that would require pharmacies to fill all prescriptions,...

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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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