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In 1899 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia called a meeting of European leaders in The Hague, The Netherlands, to discuss disarmament and world peace. Out of that meeting was formed the Permanent Court of Arbitration that has ever since served as an international referee in settling disputes between sovereign nations...
The next day a makeshift tribunal consisting of five mullahs was set up in a corner of the prison yard. They sent a few new prisoners to the execution squads before my time came for interrogation. One of the clergymen asked me whether I remembered where my brother was. When...
Congress delegates also voted to hold a "people's" tribunal against several former government officials they blame for Poland's "downfall," if Communist authorities do not prosecute them within the year.
Stung by worldwide condemnation of the seaside executions in April 1980 that followed his ouster of President William R. Tolbert, Liberia's new head of state, Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, promised a quick return to civilian rule and a halt to the killings. Seventeen months later, Doe, 30...
Some experts see the current court as a transitional tribunal poised between the social activism of the distinctly liberal Warren court and whatever might lie ahead. Despite four appointments made by Richard Nixon and one by Gerald Ford, the Burger bench has retreated surprisingly little from the pioneering decisions on...