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...FRIEDRICH ENGEL, 97, former Nazi SS officer accused of executing Italian prisoners of war; in Hamburg, Germany. Known in Italy as the "Butcher of Genoa," Engel was handed a seven-year suspended sentence in 2002 after a German court found him guilty of ordering the massacre of 59 Italian naval commandos on the outskirts of Genoa in 1944. A federal appeals court quashed the conviction in 2004 citing a lack of evidence, and ruled that Engel's advanced age prevented a retrial...
...concerned about a growing wave of leftist victories in Latin American presidential elections, insists Chavez is a would-be dictator sowing instability in the region. Last week, as U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld even likened Chavez?s rise to Hitler?s in the 1930s, Venezuela accused a U.S. naval attach? of spying and expelled him from the country; a few days later the U.S. expelled Alvarez?s chief of staff...
...Gavin Menzies, the map's most vocal champion, is sure it did. Menzies, a retired British Naval Commander, is the author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America, a book that puts Zheng He's fleet on American shores seven decades ahead of Columbus. Published in 2002, this best seller mixes established fact with Menzies' own much-disputed interpretations of history. It was a Chinese edition of 1421 and subsequent e-mails with Menzies that Liu says convinced him of his map's significance. Menzies, who has helped publicize Liu's find, tells TIME: "There isn't one millionth...
...WHERE THINGS STAND In 2004 the Supreme Court rejected the Administration's argument of Executive authority and gave enemy combatants held at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the right to contest their incarceration in federal court. But a bipartisan bill approved by Congress last month and now before the President will deny foreign terrorism suspects the right to challenge the conditions of their detention in federal court, which some experts say will effectively overturn the Supreme Court ruling...
...SMITH, DOMINIC DUPLANTIS and KEITH SILKWOOD; with the rape of a 22-year-old Filipino woman; in Olongapo City, the Philippines. The four U.S. Marines, in the country to participate in military exercises, are accused of raping the woman in a van on Nov. 1 at the former U.S. naval base of Subic Bay. The soldiers, who deny the charges, face a court martial in Okinawa in addition to their trial in the Philippines...