Word: scheme
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...crimes tribunal -- each with drawbacks. One would be via the U.N., whose General Assembly endorsed the Nuremberg principles in 1946. The U.N. could designate a panel of judges drawn from the allied coalition as well as from nations that were not involved in the gulf crisis. Such a scheme, however, might face a veto in the Security Council by the Soviet Union or China...
...judges would be drafted from among the victor nations. Experts caution that this approach might look like "victors' vengeance" and might offend those Arabs who still lionize Saddam. Procedure could also become a sticking point since the coalition partners have different legal systems. A third scheme would have members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council convene trials, possibly under Islamic...
B.C.C.I.'s fondness for drug money brought the bank to grief in Florida and eventually led to recent mammoth losses. Undercover customs agents first stumbled onto B.C.C.I. money laundering during a sting operation. As part of the scheme, agents sent several million dollars of Medellin cartel drug funds through a B.C.C.I. bank in Miami. What happened next was worthy of Alice in Wonderland. Bank officers noticed the agents' amateurish attempt at money laundering and offered to teach them more sophisticated methods. Example: the bank would wire funds to B.C.C.I. branches around the world before handing the cash back to drug...
Dave Durenberger, Minnesota Republican. Denounced by the Senate for collecting $100,000 in a book-royalty scheme...
...Kuwaiti diplomat. "We want U.S. military equipment in place, just in case, and an increased American naval presence, but security on the ground should be left to Arabs." Toward that goal, the Gulf Cooperation Council (the gulf states and Saudi Arabia) is busy concocting an enhanced military defense scheme they call "GCC Plus." Two army components of approximately 30,000 ground troops each will probably be deputized as trip- wire forces to be stationed throughout the region. One will be composed of gulf and Saudi forces; the other will be primarily Egyptian. "Egypt has the experience, and it is willing...