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...Berets? They were in action again last week, this time against Albanian guerrillas along the Kosovo border, though these days they are under a different command. The new government defends its reluctance to send even indicted war criminals to the Hague, citing the risk of political instability if it acts too fast. But the reverse is also true. "If we want to build a normal society, we need to face the truth about these crimes and punish the perpetrators," says Natasa Kandic, head of a local human-rights group, the Humanitarian Law Fund. Anything less would be getting away with...
...Chisinau Moldova's Communist Party scored a surprise comeback in parliamentary elections. Led by Vladimir Voronin, the Communists won nearly 51% of the vote and will command a majority in the legislature. Voronin lost no time in signaling that he would strengthen ties with Russia. The Communist triumph was a bitter setback for Prime Minister Dumitru Braghis, whose centrist coalition won only 13.5% of the vote...
...Uwajima The U.S. Navy's second-ranking officer, Admiral William Fallon, apologized in person to the families of four fisheries students, two teachers and three crew members missing and presumed dead since a surfacing U.S. submarine sank their training vessel off the coast of Hawaii. Earlier, Commander Scott Waddle, who was in command of the U.S.S. Greeneville when the accident occurred on Feb. 9, delivered to the Japanese consulate in Honolulu his own written apologies to the families of the missing, and to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori...
Scott Waddle was the commander of the U.S. submarine Greeneville when it sank the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru off Hawaii on Feb. 9, killing nine people. Waddle was relieved of his command, and this week he faces a Navy court of inquiry into the episode. Though he has been advised by his lawyer not to discuss the events leading up to the collision, he spoke to TIME's Los Angeles bureau chief Terry McCarthy about the aftermath, his feelings and the controversy over making apologies to the families of the deceased...
...remember what they saw, not to add or embellish anything, because the truth will get us through this event. I loved my crew and feel proud to be a naval officer. That day I kind of felt like Job in the Old Testament--I lost my crew, lost my command and felt my faith was being tested...