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...days with his grandchildren as an "elder statesman." Rubino wonders why his client can't just go home to face the music. "He committed the heinous crime of purchasing an apartment in Paris," Rubino, says in a mocking tone. "That's more important than murder and kidnapping?" Noriega's POW status would end if he sets foot on Panamanian soil and he signs a release provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross, says Vagts. But, as federal prosecutor Sullivan noted, if Noriega first went to Panama, it's unlikely he would ever set foot in France...
However, legal scholars maintain that sending Noriega - currently the world's only recognized prisoner of war - to France would violate the terms of the Geneva Convention if Paris fails to accord him POW status. Despite assertions from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami that the French government intends to honor the Geneva Convention, Noriega's Miami-based lawyer Frank Rubino maintains that may not be the case. "The French Ambassador to Panama - Pierre-Henri Guinard - publicly stated Gen. Noriega will not be treated as a prisoner of war but as a common criminal," Rubino told U.S. Magistrate William Turnoff...
Whether the French call Noriega a POW is more than academic, says Detlev Vagts, who teaches international law at Harvard. "You have to refrain from transferring a POW to a country that you think won't treat him as a POW," Vagts told TIME. "We returned a lot of German POWs to the French at the end of World War II. There are plausible charges that the French did not treat them as they should - kept them a long time and caused them to do dangerous work in mining...
Vagts says that if Paris wants him so badly, they should keep his POW status in order to help the U.S. honor the convention. "Regardless of what France calls him," says Vagts, "under the Geneva Convention, we are responsible to take POWs home. If I were the French, to avoid difficulty, I would let the Red Cross visit him and if he wants to sit in [a French] cell in his Panamanian uniform, I'd let him." The option of wearing his khaki uniform with the stars on the epaulets is but one of the privileges afforded Noriega...
...Femmes Fighting Championship, an all-female mixed-martial arts (MMA) event, almost anything goes in the cage. Sofie Bagherdai, otherwise a sweet, petite teenager from Southern California, has her opponent, Stephanie Palmer, pinned to the floor. Now she's ready to work--whack, a shot to the noggin. Bam! Pow! Boom! Half a dozen more. Palmer cowers in the fetal position, and the ref stops the fight. The medics cart Palmer out on a stretcher. (She escapes with a fractured foot, suffered earlier in the bout--which seems minor, considering the beating she took.) "I like to be friendly...