Word: breaches
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Even with agreement on the appropriate tribunal, questions would remain about precisely what crimes are punishable and who should be held responsible. Actions that breach the Geneva Conventions of 1949, to which Iraq is a signatory, are patently criminal: the use of civilians as human shields, the mistreatment of prisoners of war and the targeting of civilian populations. But was the polluting of the Persian Gulf during the second week of the conflict a war crime? There is room for doubt about the causes of the spill...
SUNDAY: THROUGH THE BREACH...
...received a rare rebuff from the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Jens Soering, who was arrested in Britain after murdering his girlfriend's parents in Virginia in 1985. Eventually 18 Court of Human Rights judges unanimously upheld Soering's claim that his extradition would breach the European Convention on Human Rights, which forbids "cruel and unusual punishment." The judges felt that the prohibition would apply to any circumstances in which Soering might be found guilty and have to await execution on death...
...will certainly need it. The opening of the breach with Gorbachev plunged the two men into a bruising struggle for political survival from which only one of them is likely to emerge. Conservatives struck back quickly. Mobilizing the full force of the Soviet media under their control, they unleashed a barrage of charges against Yeltsin. A Pravda editorial denounced the Russian leader for "resorting to all possible means to pursue his own personal ambitions and pretensions." One evening, the main television news program, Vremya, devoted its entire 17-minute opening segment to anti-Yeltsin diatribes. Soviet television even aired unusual...
Eastern's breach-of-contract suit stems from use of Eastern by the Dukakis for President Committee and Dukakis-Bentsen Committee, which are named as defendants. Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.) was his running mate...