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...recently publicized series of letters written by Vice President Al Gore '69 during the spring of 1966 express his turmoil over America's involvement in the Vietnam War...
...letters to his future wife Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Aitcheson on Harvard stationery, Gore described his mixed feelings about Vietnam--his admiration for a classmate who left school to enlist, and the presidential candidate's frustration with the war in general...
Croatia may have finally ? if reluctantly ? jailed a World War II war criminal, but it?s still dragging its feet over more contemporary monsters. Croatian concentration camp commander Dinko Sakic, charged for the death of 2,000 people at Jasenovac ? described as the Auschwitz of the Balkans ? in 1944, was convicted Monday and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. "They didn?t have much choice but to put him on trial, because letting him go free would have caused an international scandal," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. The Sakic sentence came in the context of repeated attempts...
...Sakic represents an uncomfortable piece of Croatia?s history, but it?s a long-passed history," says Anastasijevic. "The real test of Croatia?s character will be what it does about its contemporary war criminals." Tudjman is under intense pressure from the U.S. and the European Union to hand over Mladen "Tuta" Naletilic for trial at the International Tribunal in the Hague, on charges of ethnic cleansing against Muslims in the town of Mostar in 1993. But the Croats have been dragging their feet, claiming that Naletilic is too ill to stand trial and charging him with lesser offenses...
...just one ground-based interceptor site based in Alaska (the second one is slated for North Dakota). China is equally perturbed at the idea, since U.S. allies in the Pacific, like Japan, are certain to clamor for the technology. But there's considerable pressure to disregard the Cold War-imposed treaties, particularly in the Republican-controlled Congress. "There?s great political momentum for this right now," says Thompson, "to ignore the Russians, scrap the whole treaty and start building the system." And there?s a certain logic to that - when it comes to nuclear defense, all or nothing always trumps...