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Boston parishioners' search for justice took one step forward and one big step back last week. In California authorities arrested Father Paul Shanley, 71, the notorious advocate of sex between men and boys, after his alleged victim told police about abuse he says occurred in Massachusetts between 1983 and 1989. Authorities were able to overcome the state's 10-year statute of limitations fairly simply: the clock for the 10-year period does not start ticking until the victim turns 16. The former catechism student is now 24. The scandal may have loosened these time restrictions; in Connecticut...
...controversial proposal by the European Commission for a mutinational force of border guards brought to the fore the thorny issues of enlargement, immigration and national sovereignty. The proposed European Corps of Border Guards, to be operational in four or five years' time, would have powers of search, interrogation and arrest. All 15 member states need to approve the idea, which met with mixed reaction...
BURMA Free to Talk Government officials said they would resume talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who made her first public appearance after 19 months of house arrest. But military intelligence chief Kyaw Win said details of the talks would remain secret, and international labor and human-rights groups warned that the release of Suu Kyi did not herald the country's imminent return to democracy...
...groups and unofficial militias, in cooperation with Israeli security and intelligence services. But a new Israeli offensive may preclude that, forcing Dahlan to allow his men to resist and, in the course of such action, driving them closer to the very groups the U.S. would like to see them arrest...
...Since their son's arrest Tuesday, Helder's parents have likely done nothing but sit up at night, wondering how their son could have harbored so much they didn't recognize. They will have plenty of time in courtrooms to contemplate their son's metamorphosis. Helder has racked up an exhaustive list of charges; in Iowa and Illinois, he's charged with using a pipe bomb in a crime of violence and destroying property used in interstate commerce. Conviction in the Iowa charges alone could mean life in prison, but there's more: He was charged in Nebraska with interstate...