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...argues Pavel Gutiontov, secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists. "With the elections left behind, the time to observe the niceties is over." - By Yuri Zarakhovich False Start TURKEY A State security court halted the trial of 69 suspected al-Qaeda members charged in connection with the suicide bomb attacks that killed 61 in Istanbul last November. The court ruled it didn't have the authority to hear the case because reforms to Turkey...
CONVICTED. TERRY NICHOLS, 49, collaborator in the deadly 1995 bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma City; on 161 counts of first-degree murder; by a state court in McAlester, Oklahoma. Nichols is currently serving a federal life sentence for participating in the bombing, which killed 168 people. The new convictions stem from charges that Nichols played a key role in planning the attack and building the bomb. Co-conspirator Timothy McVeigh, who drove the truck containing the explosives, was executed...
...exhausted the alternatives." Churchill and F.D.R. loathed free French leader Charles de Gaulle, and he loathed them in return. Wartime politicians and officials had volcanic fights about how to handle Joseph Stalin, whether to turn postwar Germany into an agricultural backwater, and whether to put the atom bomb under international control. And things weren't always warm and fuzzy during the cold war either. In 1966 de Gaulle quit the NATO command and kicked out U.S. Troops. It took five years of messy improvisation to get the basic structures of containment in place and four decades before they bore fruit...
...KNEW THAT SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY OVERWHELMING WAS GOING TO TAKE PLACE." --John Robinson A pilot with the 344th Bomb Group, Robinson, 24, flew two successful sorties over Normandy on June...
...that view. Last week he agreed on groundbreaking new legislation to allow large numbers of new workers to move in. "We're going to have a modern immigration law," Schröder said. It's about time. Germany, like most other European countries, is sitting on a demographic time bomb. Without an annual influx of at least 230,000 people, Germany's population of 83 million will shrink to 51 million in 2050 and 24 million in 2100, according to Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for World Population and Global Development. Such a steep drop could imperil funding...