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...Because of a budget crunch, Constable Tsnakapesh was laid off for a week along with the village's other cop. Tsnakapesh, 24, continued to take police calls, though. "I have no authority," he says, "but I've been where these kids are now. My parents were both drinkers and committed suicide. I was 13 when I pulled their bodies out of the water. Later I tried to commit suicide too, because I thought I had no life. It's still happening...
...MOST PLACES, A DOCTOR WHO HELPS A TERMINALly ill patient commit suicide could face prosecution. But not in the Netherlands, which has just stepped into the vanguard of the right-to-die movement. Its parliament approved the world's most liberal rules on euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. Both practices are still technically illegal, but doctors won't be charged if they notify coroners of their actions and if they follow certain guidelines. Among them: the patient must be mentally competent; must be suffering unbearable pain and request euthanasia repeatedly; and the doctor must consult a second physician before proceeding...
While restrictions are loosening in the Netherlands, they are tightening in some parts of the U.S. Reacting to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who had helped 12 people commit suicide as of last week, Michigan has enacted a law making doctor-assisted suicide illegal beginning next month. Kevorkian says he'll ignore...
Although Pentagon officials say publicly the U.S. is willing to participate in a multilateral peacekeeping force, in private the tone is distinctly different. General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his colleagues at the Pentagon have been extremely reluctant to commit ground troops to Bosnia for any purpose. Military planners say they are examining contingencies for using American air power to enforce a no-fly order over Bosnia if the Security Council ever orders it and to "reinvigorate" relief efforts by flying air cover for truck convoys. "But that's it, max!" says a defense official...
Armies in all civilized countries receive intensive indoctrination on decent behavior and on what offenses, including rape, will result in court-martial. It is the job of officers to control their men. Elite units are the least likely to commit rape and other atrocities, although SS men in World War II proved the exception. Says the military historian John Keegan: "Elite units have a rather high opinion of themselves and consider atrocity to be beneath them." A soldier who murders or rapes disgraces his comrades and damages esprit de corps...