Word: proof
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...indeed are among the more secular followers of the Prophet Muhammad. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, who shares the Serb ambition to carve up Bosnia, parrots the charge that "there are tendencies to create an Islamic state." Serbs claim that an "Islamic Declaration" that Izetbegovic wrote in the 1970s is proof of his intention to establish a religious state. "There was nothing in it," says Ivo Banac, a Croat who is a professor of history at Yale University, "that alluded in any sense to Bosnia-Herzegovina...
...there is no evidence of genocide or systematic extermination; actual proof of individual murders is still rare. But there are numerous accounts of starvation, beatings, interrogation and miserable sanitation. Western diplomats think many of the camps will turn out to be similar to the few they have been allowed to see: harsh but not murderous detention sites where enemies, civilian and military, are warehoused before expulsion or exchange. Yet there is the fear that other camps could be much worse...
...Jersey legislature, they have held open season on the laws passed by their Democratic predecessors under the leadership of Governor Jim Florio. Among the latest to fall was a Florio centerpiece: the nation's toughest restrictions on military-style assault weapons. By margins that may be veto-proof, the lawmakers lifted the ban on the sale and possession of dozens of dangerous rapid-fire guns -- though not, even in their zeal, on the notorious Uzis...
Intent requires "a higher burden of proof" beyond merely establishing that excessive force was used, observes Drew S. Days III, of the Yale law school, who headed the civil rights division in the Carter Administration's Justice Department. Proving specific intent is "difficult, but not impossible," says Mary Frances Berry, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Since 1988, the Justice Department has filed 99 civil rights cases involving official misconduct. It has won convictions in three-quarters of them...
...advisers continued to try to divert blame for the economy to everything from Congress to the end of the cold war to Saddam Hussein to the German central bank. In a hard-hitting speech in New Orleans, Clinton portrayed the Administration's economic excuses as a Bush character flaw, proof of "the failure of the President to assume responsibility for the future of this country...