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...grim tale began around midnight on Tuesday, when villagers in the tiny Swiss farm community of Cheiry, 45 miles northeast of Geneva, saw the moonless sky lit by flames over the farmhouse of Albert Giacobino, a wealthy retired farmer who had bought the place four years ago. Firemen who arrived at the scene found Giacobino dead from a gunshot wound. Tacked to a door of the farmhouse was an audiocassette with a rambling taped discourse about earth, sky and astrological alignments...
...asked the five-member Commission of Experts to investigate reports of atrocities. A year ago, after the panel concluded that "grave breaches" of international law had been committed, the Security Council created an 11-judge international court to deal with them. Little has happened since. The judges "are like firemen polishing their engines, waiting for a fire," says an international lawyer. They have prepared rules of procedure and evidence, but the court's offices in a former insurance-company headquarters in the Hague are mostly empty. A small budget -- $11.5 million through the end of this year -- will cover rent...
...hours later, the L.A. city fire department can finally save someone. Firemen extract maintenance worker Salvador Pena from a street sweeper he was operating in the now collapsed garage of the Northridge mall, not far from the Meadows. Some slabs of concrete are airlifted off him; others are pushed away with a huge inflatable bladder. The process takes about four hours; then he is free. His legs are crushed, but he will survive. Says a fireman: "It feels so good...
...looking out the window and the car was smoking," said Edward W. Wagner, a resident. "The firemen put it out pretty quick, though...
...typical case is described by Bill Kizorek, whose Illinois-based company InPhoto Surveillance, offers video-detective services to insurers from coast to coast. Recently the company was called on by Chicago's Firemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund to investigate the disability claim of a fire fighter. "He said he could not work," says Kizorek. "But we videotaped him inside a health club climbing a wall that mountain climbers practice...