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As people start to ask "Who shot Zeljko Raznatovic?" the answers aren't so much who wanted him dead as who didn't. The paramilitary leader known as Arkan, gunned down along with two others Saturday in the lobby of the Belgrade Intercontinental hotel, had a long and brutal criminal...
The U.N. had hoped that Arkan, indicted for war crimes committed in the Balkans from 1991 to '95, would testify at The Hague that he had performed his atrocities on Milosevic's orders. For years the Serbian government has denied this, but Arkan had begun to differ, telling TIME last...
To keep warplanes flying right, Air Force pilots argue that there has to be a "man in the loop" - a person in the cockpit. A recently completed investigation into a crash of the Pentagon's most sophisticated unmanned aircraft may reinforce their bias. The Global Hawk, which is under development...
On Friday it was the mothers, and on Saturday, seemingly everybody else in Havana took to the streets to protest Elian Gonzalez's continued residence in Miami. Despite the demonstrations, and the mounting frustrations in Cuba (father Juan Gonzalez didn't make any friends by going on Nightline to tell...
In any case, Elian won't be going anywhere before January 18, when a federal court hears a challenge by his Florida family to the Immigration and Naturalization Service ruling that the boy should be returned to the custody of his father. The INS Friday rejected a second application for...