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News Blair urges people to "react calmly" to four incidents in London
Blair urges people to "react calmly" to four incidents in London
Tom Henry
July 21, 2005 11:08:00 am

Prime Minister Tony Blair gave a statement Thursday at 10 Downing Street after a series of four incidents saying "We have to react calmly and continue with our business. We know why these things are done - they...

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Swiss say UN sanctions may violate human rights
Tom Henry
July 21, 2005 09:53:00 am

Swiss ambassador to the United Nations, Peter Maurer told the UN Security Council's counter-terrorism committee on Wednesday that Switzerland believed that although targeted economic and travel sanctions against individuals were useful in countering terrorism, the scope...

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News Sunni Arabs continue constitution committee boycott
Sunni Arabs continue constitution committee boycott
Tom Henry
July 21, 2005 07:58:00 am

Following the deaths by gunfire of two prominent Sunnis involved in the constitution drafting process earlier this week, Sunni Arabs decided Thursday to continue boycotting the drafting committee, putting in jeopardy the August deadline set for the...

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State lawmakers seek limits on eminent domain ruling
Tom Henry
July 20, 2005 01:21:00 pm

In the wake of the US Supreme Court's June decision in Kelo v. New London allowing a local government authority to expropriate private property for private redevelopment that confers economic benefits on the community, legislators...

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News Israeli official: prisons ready to detain 2,300 anti-pullout activists
Israeli official: prisons ready to detain 2,300 anti-pullout activists
Tom Henry
July 20, 2005 11:24:00 am

The commissioner of Israel's prison service Ya'akov Ganot told a Knesset committee on Wednesday that Israeli detention facilities were equipped to hold as many as 2,300 anti-pullout activists predicted to take part in illegal protests against the...

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Italian prosecutor seeks six more arrest warrants in CIA kidnapping probe
Tom Henry
July 20, 2005 09:24:00 am

In the wake of an Italian judge's decision last month to issue warrants for 13 CIA operatives wanted in connection with the kidnapping of radical Muslim cleric Abu Omar off the streets of Milan...

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Former Philadelphia treasurer sentenced to 10 years for corruption
Tom Henry
July 20, 2005 08:41:00 am

Former Philadelphia City Treasurer Corey Kemp was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for corruption. Kemp was convicted in May 2005 on 20 counts of accepting kickbacks during his time in office that included...

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News CORRECTED ~ Two Sunni members of Iraq constitution committee shot dead
CORRECTED ~ Two Sunni members of Iraq constitution committee shot dead
Tom Henry
July 19, 2005 03:46:00 pm

Late reports from Reuters indicate that two members of the 71-person Iraq constitution committee were shot dead earlier today, rather than three members as reported earlier . Sheikh Mujbil al-Sheikh Isa, Dhamin Hussein Ileywi and Aziz...

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BREAKING NEWS ~ Bush to announce Supreme Court nominee at 9 PM ET
Tom Henry
July 19, 2005 01:08:00 pm

AP is reporting that a senior administration official has said that US President George Bush will announce his nominee for the US Supreme Court this evening at 9:00 PM ET. AP has more. The latest speculation has centered around...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Three members of Iraq constitution committee gunned down
BREAKING NEWS ~ Three members of Iraq constitution committee gunned down
Tom Henry
July 19, 2005 08:56:00 am

Reuters is reporting that three members of the committee drafting a new constitution in Iraq were shot and killed outside a Baghdad restaurant Tuesday. Sources say that the men were three of the fifteen Sunni members who recently joined...

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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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