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...fear of future atrocities and the success of the ad hoc war crimes tribunals created to deal with Yugoslavian and Rwandan criminals have paved the way for a conference in Rome this summer, according to Scheffer...
...United Nations, one for Bosnia, the other for Rwanda, are charged with the unenviable task of meting out justice to those accused of war crimes, and are frustrated by a lack of resources and cooperation from various countries. Despite these problems, the UN will convene a special conference in Rome this summer to try to work out the final details for a proposed International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide and war crimes...
There are valid legal concerns over mapping out the Court's jurisdiction and defining the power of its prosecutor and important moral questions about whether or not a universal standard of justice is applicable, or even desirable. These objections, however, should be discussed and debated in Rome; they should not be used to kill the endeavor from Capitol Hill. Some of the most heinous human beings of our time are laughing at the world right now, confident that they will never be punished for their crimes, and it seems as though they may be right...
...November 1989 word went out that Mikhail Gorbachev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, would stop in Rome en route to a summit meeting with President George Bush. In Rome he would have an audience with Pope John Paul...
...intent on attracting younger customers to the label. Chloe had its heyday during Lagerfeld's tenure in the '60s and '70s, and although the designer returned in 1992, it never managed to regain its cachet. Moufarrige arrived at McCartney's studio in December 1996, pretending to be a Rome retailer. "I was attracted to the level of detail she put in her clothes," says Moufarrige. "And it helped that she did a very good job of convincing me that a 25-year-old and a 45-year-old could wear...