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...trial; otherwise, release him! It is a scandal and just unbelievable that the detainees, who may not be terrorists, do not get a trial, have no rights and have no prospect of the situation changing. How can the world just sit there and watch this happen? Hermann Hacker Weinstadt, Germany
...trial; otherwise, release him! It is a scandal and just unbelievable that the detainees, who may not be terrorists, do not get a trial, have no rights and have no prospect of the situation changing. How can the world just sit there and watch this happen? Hermann Hacker Weinstadt, Germany
...DIED. Anthony Marreco, 90, British barrister and human-rights campaigner; in England. In 1945, Marreco was recruited to the small British legal team prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. During his year at the trial, Marreco became acquainted with the surviving Nazi leaders-including Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess-and was stunned by the weak defenses they offered for their terrible crimes. In the 1960s, Marreco helped found Amnesty International, and in 1968 published a scathing report for the organization on the maltreatment of political prisoners by Greece's military junta...
...that it may not pose a huge problem. The combined company would be three times the size of its nearest competitors, with a 10% share of the world steel market, but Mittal and Arcelor don't have many territorial or product overlaps that could cause problems with regulators. Hermann Reith, analyst with BHF-Bank in Frankfurt, says he reckons the chances of the deal going through are now more than 50%. "We will look at this issue, as always, very carefully on competition grounds only. The regulation gives us no power to question mergers for other reasons," said Neelie Kroes...
...ever eluded her, will face strong challenges from teammate Sasha Cohen and Russia's Irina Slutskaya, seven-time European and twice World champion. The Scandinavians will struggle to protect their longtime hold on Nordic events from the Russian, Ukrainian and Czech skiers hot on their heels. Austrian ski great Hermann Maier will attempt to complete his miraculous comeback from a near fatal motorcycle crash in 2001 by adding to his two Olympic gold medals. German speed skater Anni Friesinger will face a strong field of U.S. and Canadian racers. Japanese ski jumpers, Korean short-track speedsters and even the British...