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...board back to the beach. Given that the sailboat was about at least three times as big as the windsurf, I decided to take advantage of what CBI called “informal instruction” rather than risking the indignity of having to be towed back to the dock...
...genocide conviction of the Serb general responsible for the Srebrenica atrocity in 1995 is cause for satisfaction, but not closure, because many of those who share culpability were not in the dock at the Hague War Crimes Tribunal. Those include not only the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs' murderous campaign but also the international community that assembled the victims on the promise of protection, and then stepped aside and allowed a five-day slaughter they had the means of stopping...
...smooth horizontal lines of a conventional freighter nor the bulk of a passenger ferryboat. It combines elements of both, as if a cargo ship had slowly crunched its stern flat against an iceberg. It's the latest in a new line of ships to roll out of Dry Dock No. 1 in the industrial port city of Gdynia. It's also a rare economic success story to emerge from the tatters of communist rule...
NIGERIA Delivered from a Voyage to Nowhere After spending 26 days at sea, 156 Liberian passengers aboard a Swedish-registered ship were finally allowed ashore in Lagos. The Alnar Stockholm left Monrovia on June 1 bound for Ghana but was refused permission to dock. The ship's captain then tried Benin and Togo, but they also declined to accept the passengers, who claimed to be refugees from fighting in their homeland. As the ship drew into Lagos they were too exhausted and hungry to celebrate but sang a hymn praising God for their deliverance...
...triumph for the eight-year-old court and its chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, who spent months barnstorming through Western capitals demanding his transfer. The tribunal has gone after Serb, Croat and Muslim suspects and successfully prosecuted 19 defendants, but until now has yet to bring to dock the supreme commanders of the Balkan wars. American officials who pressed the Yugoslav government to give Milosevic up, conditioning aid on his handover to the U.N., also claimed vindication. "Today's unfolding events demonstrate the wisdom of our position," crowed Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...