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...former social affairs minister Georgina Dufoix were acquitted for their involvement in the scandal, in which some 4,400 individuals were infected with HIV from tainted blood productsin 1985; 40 percent of those people have already died. A not guilty verdict had been anticipated, according to TIME correspondent Bruce Crumley, "although Herv? was expected to be publicly blamed, because he had legal control of the health administration and should have been the most hands-on of all officials involved." But rarely has bureaucratic inertia had such terrible consequences. "When you realize the horror of what occurred, it's hard...
...With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Pristina, Bruce Crumley/ Paris and Mark Thompson/Washington
...barely a week to go before NATO's Kosovo talks deadline, the Serb and ethnic Albanian delegations have yet to negotiate face-to-face. Diplomats scurry back and forth between the two sides, although they're all in the same room for buffet-style meals, reports TIME correspondent Bruce Crumley. "The challenge is to create an agreement that both sides can present differently," says Crumley. "The Serbs need to be able to sell the agreement as ending any prospect of independence for Kosovo, while the Kosovars have to see it as a stepping-stone toward independence...
...extramarital affair. Not when it could be debating the politics of that intrepid cartoon adventurer, Tintin. On Wednesday, the National Assembly marked the 70th anniversary of the character's birth by debating his political allegiances. "It's a little tongue-in-cheek," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "The Gaullists are arguing why Tintin encapsulates the virtues of center-right nationalism, while the socialists claim him for the center-left by pointing to his compassion and altruism." And then of course the traditional chorus on the fringes cites everything from Tintin's racist colonial adventures to the fact that...
...Delegates can, however, agree on Tintin as the prototype citizen of the new Europe: "He was created in Belgium and adopted by France, but in translation he has been embraced by the whole continent," says Crumley. "They see him as a European counterbalance to Mickey Mouse." As if an anti-Mickey were needed in a country that honored Jerry Lewis as a cultural treasure...