Word: ukrainians
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ARRESTED. NIKOLAY SOLTYS, 27, Ukrainian immigrant who was among the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives; for the brutal murder of six of his family members; in Citrus Heights, Calif. Soltys' brother called police after spotting him in the family's backyard...
...Reconciliation Despite pleas from Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksy II to cancel, Pope John Paul II went ahead with a five-day visit to Ukraine. There he ignored Orthodox priests waving banners that read "Orthodoxy or death" and continued his mission to reconcile the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, apologizing in Ukrainian for past "errors" and declaring that "unity and harmony ... is the secret of peace". NORTHERN IRELAND Showdown The British and Irish governments planned intensive negotiations to tackle the latest crisis in the peace process. The reason: Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble's resignation as First Minister, due to take effect...
True awfulness sets in when collateral damage is no longer collateral but becomes the intended point. Innocents are terrorized as a matter of policy. Stalin's Ukrainian famine, the rape of Nanking, the London Blitz, Dresden, the Tokyo fire bombings--all these accomplished a purposeful slaughter of bystanders in order to break an enemy's will. Sometimes the collateral damage has a moral justification--kill more than 100,000 civilians at Hiroshima, for example, in order to end the war and spare millions of lives, American and Japanese, that might have been lost in an invasion of the home islands...
...patient to be treated with HIV-infected untreated blood products in 1985; in Tokyo. The judge ruled that his actions could not be termed negligent because he may not have known at the time of the danger to the patient, who subsequently died from AIDS. SACKED. YURI KRAVCHENKO, 50, Ukrainian Interior Minister implicated by opposition groups in the murder of a journalist who was highly critical of the government; in Kiev. Kravchenko's dismissal came two months after the airing of tapes in which voices similar to his and that of President Leonid Kuchma discuss kidnapping reporter Georgy Gongadze, whose...
...there's an interesting story there, since these gunships require a well-trained crew - we have to assume that the crew was Ukrainian, and the interesting question is how this decisive military aid was so quickly arranged. In particular, the question is whether it was brokered by the West or by Russia...