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News International brief ~ Southern Sudan worried about Muslim peacekeeping force
International brief ~ Southern Sudan worried about Muslim peacekeeping force
D. Wes Rist
January 21, 2005 12:25:00 pm

Leading Friday's international brief, a key member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement , now the ruling party in Southern Sudan, has expressed concern about the makeup of the proposed UN peacekeeping force to be deployed in March....

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News International brief ~ ICTY charges camp commander with war crimes
International brief ~ ICTY charges camp commander with war crimes
D. Wes Rist
January 20, 2005 09:43:00 am

In Thursday's international brief, Savo Todovic, former deputy commander of the Serb-run Foca concentration camp , was officially charged at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on Wednesday....

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News International brief ~ Yushchenko inauguration expected late this week
International brief ~ Yushchenko inauguration expected late this week
D. Wes Rist
January 19, 2005 08:48:00 am

In Wednesday's international legal news, Viktor Yushchenko , the pro-western reformer who led a popular charge to see the original November Ukranian presidential election results reversed on grounds of fraud, will most likely...

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News International brief ~ Russian government says benefits plan no grounds for no-confidence vote
International brief ~ Russian government says benefits plan no grounds for no-confidence vote
D. Wes Rist
January 18, 2005 11:07:00 am

In Tuesday's international brief, the Russian government has rejected a petition initiated Monday by KPRF , the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, requesting a Duma vote of no-confidence. The government denied...

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News International brief – Somalian parliament approves key cabinet choices
International brief – Somalian parliament approves key cabinet choices
D. Wes Rist
January 13, 2005 03:05:00 pm

In Thursday's international brief, Somalia's parliament has approved the proposed cabinet of Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi Thursday in a crucial step towards establishing a truly functioning government for the trouble-ridden country. The proposed list was the...

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News International brief ~ Venezuelan leader jump-starts controversial land reform law
International brief ~ Venezuelan leader jump-starts controversial land reform law
D. Wes Rist
January 12, 2005 10:45:00 am

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez issued a presidential decree Tuesday creating a presidential and national land commission to implement the provisions of Venezuela's four year old land reform law. The law, called...

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News Former WebMD workers plead guilty to mail fraud
Former WebMD workers plead guilty to mail fraud
D. Wes Rist
January 11, 2005 10:39:00 am

Three former employees of Medical Manager Health Systems Inc., recently purchased by WebMD , pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud on Tuesday. Federal prosecutors in South Carolina filed charges against the three, including Robert W. Davids, a...

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News Ex-Guantanamo translator enters guilty plea
Ex-Guantanamo translator enters guilty plea
D. Wes Rist
January 11, 2005 10:10:00 am

A former civilian Arabic translator at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp pleaded guilty Monday to charges of mishandling classified information and lying to investigators. Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, a naturalized US citizen of Egyptian origin, has been...

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News Six executives charged in AOL fraud investigations
Six executives charged in AOL fraud investigations
D. Wes Rist
January 11, 2005 09:44:00 am

Six individuals, two former AOL executives and four former executives from the now-defunct PurchasePro software company, have been charged in an ongoing investigation into a secret negotiation between the two companies to artificially increase PurchasePro's revenues. Federal...

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News Suit to bar prayer at presidential inauguration under review
Suit to bar prayer at presidential inauguration under review
D. Wes Rist
January 11, 2005 09:28:00 am

Michael Newdow {JURIST Newsmaker], the same individual who sued to have the words "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, has filed a suit to bar the planned recitation of a prayer at the presidential inauguration ...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Carter authorizes Chrysler bailout

On January 7, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 (Public Law 96-185) into law. The act granted to Chrysler $1.5 billion to save the company from bankruptcy. Twenty-eight years later in 2008, President George W. Bush authorized $17.4 billion to again bailout Chrysler in addition to the other two major American automobile manufacturers, Ford and General Motors.

Anglo-Irish Treaty ratified

On January 7, 1922, Dáil Éireann ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Signed on December 6 of the preceding year, the treaty ended the Irish War of Independence against Great Britain. The British Parliament voted to approve the treaty on December 16, 1921. Ratification was completed on January 14, 1922, when the House of Commons of Southern Ireland became the third and final party to approve the document. The Anglo-Irish treaty effectively split the island into its current state. While the lower counties of Ireland were granted autonomy under the treaty, Britain insisted that the six Protestant counties of Northern Ireland be allowed to determine their own future. On the day after the treaty was signed, these counties elected to remain part of Great Britain. Today, they remain part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

New York State Assembly expels five socialist assemblymen

The New York State Assembly, the state's lower house, expelled five duly elected assemblymen from the Socialist Party over their political affiliation on January 7, 1920. The US was in the midst of the first Red Scare, a panic resulting from the ascendancy of the Bolsheviks in Russia, which resulted in the repression of socialists across the country. The result of the expulsion vote was 140-6. Thus, Assemblymen August Claessens, Samuel A. DeWitt, Samuel Orr, Charles Solomon and Louis Waldman were removed from their posts. Learn more about the expulsions from the Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York.

Rehnquist sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice

On January 7, 1972, the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Read a short profile of Chief Justice Rehnquist here.

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