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...challenged the prosecutors to back off, and its bloody taunt has thrust the country into a crisis of confidence, adding fear of civil disorder to serious economic troubles. Commented the Corriere della Sera: "We have chosen leaders who are very capable of shedding tears but perfectly incapable of assuming grave duties." The month-old government of Prime Minister Giuliano Amato found its attention painfully distracted from the job of repairing the budget deficit, public debt and unemployment that threaten its status in the European Community...
...aimed at eroding the coalition's resolve. But Western officials insist they are having the opposite effect. They say Saddam's gamble that Europe is too distracted by the Yugoslav quagmire and President Bush too immobilized by his tough re-election fight to risk military action is a grave miscalculation. "If Saddam does not quickly comply with U.N. demands," says a senior British diplomat, "an attack is almost certainly on. We are not going to wait long." (See related story on page...
...labor camp prisoner called Filipp Semyonov who had shared some characteristics with Alexei, Radzinsky began to consider the possibility. On the evidence offered, though, he is a long way from proving it. Yet as Radzinsky was finishing his book last year, the story took a new turn. The grave site had been dug up and found to contain human remains -- but of only nine bodies...
...knows whether it will become fully effective, let alone last any longer than an eyeblink. Nor will any thanks be due to the American and European statesmen who have almost daily proclaimed that the bloodshed must stop but have done nothing effective. If peace -- even the peace of the grave -- is at all foreseeable, it is only because aggression is on the verge of winning in Bosnia...
...week after their arrest, Mrs. Seale led investigators to Reso's decomposing corpse in a shallow grave in New Jersey's remote Pine Barrens. She had already described how she and her husband grabbed Reso from his home as he set out for work last April and stuffed him into a sweltering storage facility. She also told how Arthur Seale shot Reso in the arm during a struggle. Autopsy reports have not been made public, but officials are saying Reso died only four days into his captivity...