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...George Robertson's assessment, "Kosovo One Year On: Achievement and Challenge," published Tuesday in a preemptive strike against the growing chorus of criticism of the operation's achievements a year after the alliance began bombing Yugoslavia. Robertson argues that NATO lost only two planes and no pilots, inflicted minimal civilian casualties, and succeeded in driving out Serb forces and returning refugees to their homes. Last June there were 50 deaths each week in Kosovo, he notes, while today there are only five. Still, the defensive tone of his report signals that NATO has failed to realize its lofty...
...Salgado's images are successors to the lost tradition of history painting, They remind us that battlefields are mostly piled with civilian casualties, that the developed world, so plump and abundant, is home to the lucky few and that the epic of our time remains what it was before our time, the everyday struggle to survive...
...Nawaz may have created an obstacle to the meeting - at least at the level of appearances - but Washington has a long tradition of close cooperation with Pakistani strongmen, recognizing also perhaps that the prospects for stability may be greater under military rule than they were under Nawaz's corrupt civilian administration. President Clinton will go through the motions of urging a speedy return to civilian rule, but terrorism remains the most important point of contention between the U.S. and the country that remains the key to its efforts to apprehend Osama bin Laden in neighboring Afghanistan. "While U.S. counter-terrorism...
Last week the FBI joined the campaign to root out public corruption and civil rights abuses. The G-men assigned to the case have joined a crowd of other investigators--the civilian police commission, the Los Angeles district attorney's office, the police department's internal-affairs unit along with a special task force. Following in their wake: an army of private lawyers who have been flooded with calls from alleged Rampart victims. By the time all the civil rights lawsuits are resolved, Los Angeles could face hundreds of millions of dollars in liability. Mayor Richard Riordan has called...
...antigang fraternity acted a lot like a gang itself. When a new recruit joined the unit, CRASH members allegedly circled around and beat him--an initiation ritual that criminal gangs call "jumping in." In one case, a white CRASH officer leaving the scene of a police beating of a civilian--for which the city had to pay a $25,000 settlement--allegedly yelled out, "¡Puro Rampart! [Totally Rampart]," an imitation of a gang slogan...