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...Alien Tort Claims Act. Originally designed to combat piracy, it fell into disuse until 1980, when courts began applying it to liability for aiding and abetting violations of fundamental human rights no matter where they occur--a standard similar to one used to prosecute German companies at the Nuremberg trials after World War II. More than two dozen cases have been filed against firms doing business in developing countries. No judgments have been awarded so far, but the potential liability could reach $200 billion...
...negotiating with the likes of Mladic. But Clark should have known the character of his company. As early as December 1992, then-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger had accused the Serb general of perpetrating mass murder and named him as one of the top three Serb candidates for a Nuremberg-style war crimes trial. In 1993, Senator Dennis DeConcini, then co-chair of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, said that Mladic’s troops “are responsible for many of the atrocities we hear about in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...part Olympia, a record of the 1936 Summer Games, pioneered techniques and attitudes copied in virtually all TV sports coverage. Instead, she is vilified as the venal genius who glamorized the Hitler myth in 1935's Triumph of the Will. This record of a Nazi Party Congress rally in Nuremberg still sickens with its close-up view of the spellbinding Fuhrer (this was the original Springtime for Hitler), still enthralls with the artful precision of its editing craft. A wily 101 at her death, Riefenstahl outlived most of her critics but not her reputation; for 60 years, she was blackballed...
...early September, police followed Wiese from Munich to a patch of woods in Brandenburg, near the Polish border. On Sept. 6, investigators say, they stopped Wiese near Nuremberg and found traces of explosives in his backpack. They say they also found a bag with 1.7 kilos of explosives in Metzing's carpentry shop. Searches of the homes of other suspected gang members allegedly turned up 12 more kilos of explosives, grenades and detonators. The plot in Munich could be a sign that the fractious radical right is organizing itself into a terrorist network. There is increasing concern among politicians...
Martin said the project could help prove the benefit of the web to preservation and would open up public access to the important legal documents of Nuremberg...