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...authorities are expected to decide in the next six months whether to try Touvier. "After 20 years of stalling in the courts," said Serge Klarsfeld, the renowned Nazi hunter, "Touvier will have to answer for his crimes in a criminal court." Antanas Gecas, 77, a onetime Lithuanian auxiliary-police battalion officer now living -- quite openly -- in Edinburgh, Scotland, is similarly awaiting a decision by the British government about whether to prosecute him for his alleged participation in his battalion's murder of 15,000 Jews in Lithuania and Belorussia...
...southern direction," says Zalmay Khalilzad, director of strategic doctrine at the Rand Corp. "If the Serbs win in Bosnia, the prospect of the war spreading increases." He calls for more energetic involvement in Macedonia, where the U.S. has deployed a token force of 300 soldiers to join a Nordic battalion already in place. So small a unit is nothing more than a "trip wire," a warning to would-be aggressors that an attack would bring in much greater U.S. military power...
...Marines are made up mostly of enlisted personnel without the same opportunities. Some women do argue that any female who meets the physical requirements for combat units should be able to volunteer, but there is no sign of a ground swell. Captain Melea Riley, who commands a training battalion including both men and women at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, says, "I have never come across a woman who said she would like to be in a combat infantry unit." Cornum, the bemedaled flight surgeon, now back at Fort Rucker, Alabama, confirms that. "Personally," she says, "I've never...
...Harvard softball team learned against Division I power Providence College yesterday in Providence. The PC battalion overwhelmed the Crimson with lots of big hitting and swept Harvard's third doubleheader in four days...
...confidence of law enforcement officials was no doubt bolstered by a piece of evidence that gave the first clear indication of the bombers' motive. In a letter mailed to the New York Times around the time of the blast, a group calling itself the Liberation Army Fifth Battalion claimed responsibility and attributed the attack to anger with U.S. support for Israel. Authorities had verified that the letter was written by one of the suspects in custody, the newspaper said. The letter threatened additional attacks against civilian, military and "nuclear targets," unless the U.S. severed relations with Israel and ended interference...