Word: pathe
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...second Nuremberg may not be possible, but the U.N. is on a path that could lead to trials. The Security Council last October authorized a commission of legal experts from five countries to document war crimes in Yugoslavia. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said he hoped the process thus begun would end by creating an appropriate court to judge the accused. The expert commission has already received 3,000 pages of testimony on war crimes in Bosnia from governments, aid organizations and individuals, mostly refugees. After analyzing the information, the experts will report to Boutros-Ghali...
...have taken part-Cheyenne mercenaries for their alter egos? And which other scion of America's Eastern ruling class has devoted 628 pages and seven years of libel suits to defending the name of a young Native American charged with murder? While others pursue careers, Matthiessen has forged a path, and often it seems a high, chill path through what he calls "some night country on the dark side of the earth that all of us have to go to all alone...
From the beginning, in fact, Matthiessen has hewed to the same harsh, uncompromising path: nearly all his books are set in a primitive, half- mythical landscape where men are alone with nature and a lost spark of divinity. You will not find much contemporary in the books, and there is scarcely a mention of domestic relationships, or cities, or Europe. Nearly all of them simply trace the dialogue of light and dark. "One reason I like boats so much," he explains, "is that you have to pare everything down to the bare necessities, and there you are, the captain...
...finally broke: President Boris Yeltsin's key reformist ministers will keep their jobs after all. Yeltsin's abrupt abandonment of his acting Prime Minister, free- market maven Yegor Gaidar, made the announcement a relief for those who feared that the Russian President was forsaking the country's radical reform path altogether. Among the key players from the Gaidar team retaining their posts are Deputy Prime Ministers Alexander Shokhin and Anatoli Chubais. Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev was also kept on. No changes were announced in the key Interior, Defense and Security ministries...
...displayed several facets of his personality: a leader feared by his aides, who attempt to shield him from some uncomfortable truths; an insightful student of economics nevertheless capable of holding to notions most economists view as errant nonsense; a man determined to set the country on a difficult path, who views every setback as an opportunity...