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...after Perry used the V word, he seemed to have changed his mind. In a speech in Philadelphia he labeled Bosnia a place "where our vital interests are not threatened, but we do have an important stake in the outcome." Asked to explain this contradiction last week, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said Bosnia was important, though not vital, but the maintenance of U.S. leadership in NATO was at stake in the peacekeeping mission. "We're protecting NATO," Bacon said. "That's vital...
...plutonium consolidated and sealed behind thick layers of concrete. All but 300 acres of the 6,500-acre site would be decontaminated and released for other uses, including recreation and commerce. The ambitious plans face opposition from local activists. But even Silverman's critics pay him grudging homage. Says Ken Korkia of the Rocky Flats Citizens Advisory Board, a watchdog group: "He has taken charge and assumed responsibility." If anyone can get the job done, it seems, it's the improbably unbureaucratic Mark Silverman...
...resolution comes in the wake of last week's executions of political activists in Nigeria. The military regime in Nigeria, which seized power in 1993, hanged 11 activists, including environmentalist, poet and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa. The executions have received worldwide condemnation...
...military government of Nigeria hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa, a prominent author and critic of the regime, along with eight others who had been accused with him of involvement in the murder of four pro-government leaders last year. Saro-Wiwa maintained his innocence to the end; his supporters say he and his co-defendants were framed. After the executions, the U.S. and several other countries withdrew their ambassadors, and the Commonwealth nations of Britain and its former colonies, meeting in New Zealand, suspended Nigeria...
David Stephen 96, the coordinator of the Kenya Nigeria Campaign for Amnesty International, said "Ken's words were so moving, so strong, that indeed he did get a response from the Nigeria government one of fear, one of a dictatorship desperate to hold on to a mandate it never...