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...emptive engagement is the ultimate sign of his visionary grasp of what is needed to fight and win the war on terror. "Something had to be done," says Kathie Tenner's husband Bruce, who sounds a lot like Bush when he argues, "Over the long haul, if we can establish democracy in one nation over there, it's going to spread." Edward Wiederstein, a farmer in Audubon, Iowa, goes so far as to suggest that Bush's critics are "promoting the enemy, as far as I'm concerned. The more rhetoric they've stepped up, the more the attacks against...
...officials say they are working to establish a court system that can prosecute the worst offenders from Saddam's regime. According to the plan, the tribunals will first try the 45 key Baathist leaders in custody, then move on to rank-and-file regime loyalists accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. But it could take years for such courts to bring former Baathist officials to justice. At a recent conference, Iraqi human-rights groups lashed out at a director of the reconciliation effort in Cambodia, where the process of trying members of Pol Pot's regime...
...suffocating seabirds. For two long weeks, Total stood behind the thin excuse that the tanker did not belong to the company. "What we didn't know at the beginning was that we had a genuine catastrophe on our hands," said Thierry Desmarest, Total's chief executive, later. To re-establish credibility, Desmarest put in place a high-level team charged with devising new standards of behavior and ensuring they are implemented. Cordier, 56, was appointed ethics czar and set up an ethics committee in 2001. He reports directly to Desmarest, and his committee has written a new code of conduct...
...Produce, which is being sued by Guatemalan laborers that claim the firm hired goons who kidnapped and tortured union organizers, and ExxonMobil, which faces claims by Indonesian villagers that the oil company is liable for the brutality of local security forces - both companies deny these claims. "We want to establish that multinationals, which are among the biggest players in the global economy, are bound by the rule of law," says Terry Collingsworth, executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund. The law in question is a once-obscure statute drafted in 1789 by the first U.S. Congress: the Alien Tort...
...running. In one case several years ago, a local businessman in eastern Bulgaria was found with 413,000 deutsche marks under his bed, but got off by claiming that the currency was to wallpaper his room. A new law, drafted with the assistance of E.U. and U.S. officials, would establish tough sentences not just for printing but for preparing to forge currency as well, but it is unlikely to win backing by the Bulgarian parliament until next year. Tougher legislation in Bulgaria and elsewhere will make a difference, police say. But to fight the common enemy, investigators across Europe will...