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International-law specialists suggest several possibilities for convening a war-crimes tribunal -- each with drawbacks. One would be via the U.N., whose General Assembly endorsed the Nuremberg principles in 1946. The U.N. could designate a panel of judges drawn from the allied coalition as well as from nations that were...
A second option would see the coalition partners convene their own tribunal, using Nuremberg as a model. As in 1945, the judges would be drafted from among the victor nations. Experts caution that this approach might look like "victors' vengeance" and might offend those Arabs who still lionize Saddam. Procedure...
There was none of the crackling tension of Army v. McCarthy or Iran-contra, yet last week's hearings of the Senate ethics committee were almost as historic. Never before had five Senators faced the judgment of their peers in such a public tribunal. Seated at separate tables to underscore...
If anything, the Columbus controversy is more intense in Latin America and the Caribbean. Fidel Castro has renounced his own Hispanic background to declare himself an Indian and denounce the conquerors for raping and enslaving "our people" -- the ultimate, perhaps, in expropriation. Conservative prelates of the Latin American Catholic bishops...
The finance committee has a mission that stands in stark contrast to those of the council's four other standing committees. While the members of other committees spend their time drafting wordy resolutions and sitting on student-faculty boards, the 17-member tribunal that is the finance committee rules on...