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Galbraith, an ex-U.S. diplomat, said that his former boss, Kai A. Eide, a past Norwegian diplomat and U.N. special representative, is not correctly addressing the issue of fraud...
...witnessed first-hand the violence and repression that SOA graduates use to govern," recounted Father Roy Bourgeios, founder of the 16-year-old organization dedicated to closing the institution, during an interview in his old home of Bolivia. An ex-U.S. Marine, Bourgeios lived as a Maryknoll priest in South America's poorest country during the dictatorship of SOA graduate Hugo Banzer in the 1970s. Bourgeois hopes to make more governments see that WHINSEC has become an anachronism, a relic of the U.S.'s big-stick foreign policy in Latin America. "A school that has no students," he says...
DIED. HERMAN TALMADGE, 88, cigar-chomping ex-U.S. Senator and Governor of Georgia who started as a staunch segregationist--he voted against the Civil Rights Act--but later supported issues important to blacks; in Hampton, Ga. The Democrat won respect for his fierce, effective grilling of Nixon witnesses while on the Senate Watergate Committee but lost his bid for a fifth term in 1980 after the Senate denounced him for financial improprieties...
...killed in NATO attacks. On his second day in court, he continued his allegations that NATO is to blame - and should be on trial - for the deportation and killing of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo in 1999. Milosevic wants to call powerful witnesses to support this line of reasoning, including ex-U.S. President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, but the judges must decide if their testimony is likely to be relevant. Milosevic faces a total of 66 counts on three indictments for genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, and for crimes against...
...world of State Department contractors, to fill many jobs. It's an expensive decision. Chopper and crop-spraying contract pilots can make $100,000 a year. And because the U.S. doesn't want to send active-duty soldiers, the narcowars have come to serve as a retirement plan for ex-U.S. military folks looking for somewhere to put their skills to work. Military Professional Resources Inc., of Alexandria, Va., recently wrapped up a yearlong, $6 million mission to help organize and improve the Colombian military. That has made some professional U.S. soldiers itchy. "The employment of private corporations...