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News Sudan announces domestic Darfur tribunal
Sudan announces domestic Darfur tribunal
Alexandria Samuel
June 12, 2005 10:26:00 am

Sudan officials announced Sunday that the nation will set up its own court to investigate and prosecute crimes committed during the uprising in Darfur . Last week the Sudan government backed down from...

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News DOJ data challenges Bush claims on post-9/11 terror convictions
DOJ data challenges Bush claims on post-9/11 terror convictions
Christopher Tate
June 11, 2005 04:44:00 pm

A Washington Post examination of US Department of Justice terror prosecutions to appear in the paper's Sunday edition shows very little progress in identifying and convicting terrorists since September 11, 2001. In contrast to President Bush's recent claims that...

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News Iraqi security official says televised Saddam trial to start before constitution poll
Iraqi security official says televised Saddam trial to start before constitution poll
Christopher Tate
June 11, 2005 04:04:00 pm

Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwafaq al-Rubie said Saturday that the trial of former President Saddam Hussein will take place before the currently-scheduled October 15 referendum on the new Iraqi constitution , and that the...

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News Iraq Sunnis to call for UN arbitration on constitution
Iraq Sunnis to call for UN arbitration on constitution
Christopher Tate
June 11, 2005 03:53:00 pm

A Iraqi Sunni leader concerned with low Sunni representation on the committee charged with drafting Iraq’s new constitution reiterated Saturday that Sunnis will suspend work on the document if the make-up of the committee is not...

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News Gay rights rally in Poland sparks violence
Gay rights rally in Poland sparks violence
Christopher Tate
June 11, 2005 03:27:00 pm

Violence broke out on the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw Saturday when right-wing activists confronted over 2,000 homosexuals marching for gay rights in the predominantly Catholic country. Three people were injured and ten were...

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News GOP Senator calls for Guantanamo closure
GOP Senator calls for Guantanamo closure
Christopher Tate
June 11, 2005 02:59:00 pm

Republican Senator Mel Martinez has become the first major GOP lawmaker to call for the closure of the military terror detention camp at Guantamao Bay . Speaking Friday in Florida, Martinez, a former Secretary of...

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News Japan pledges gap money for Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal
Japan pledges gap money for Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal
Holly Manges Jones
June 11, 2005 12:14:00 pm

Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has pledged $11 million to fill a funding gap for a tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide, according to Cambodian government sources. Machimura met with Cambodian Foreign...

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Former WorldCom CEO petitions for reduced sentence
Holly Manges Jones
June 11, 2005 11:36:00 am

Lawyers for former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers filed a motion Friday asking for a lesser sentence for his fraud conviction in March. The motion included support from Ebbers' family members, friends, and former employees in...

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News Six Supreme Court justices are millionaires
Six Supreme Court justices are millionaires
Holly Manges Jones
June 11, 2005 10:39:00 am

Six justices of the US Supreme Court held over $1 million in assets in 2004, according to new annual financial disclosure statements released Friday. O'Connor, Breyer, Ginsburg, Scalia, Souter, and Stevens are the...

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Venezuela gives US evidence on Cuban exile
Holly Manges Jones
June 11, 2005 10:06:00 am

Venezuela delivered evidence to the US State Department Friday related to Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles who is sought by Caracas for allegedly blowing up a Cuban plane as part of a terrorist attack in...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Mexican Army kills over 400 Texas prisoners of war

The Mexican army executed more than 400 Texian prisoners of war on March 27, 1836, during the Texas Revolution, in an event that would become known as the Goliad Massacre. A decree passed in December 1835 allowed Mexican soldiers under General Antonio López de Santa Anna to shoot any foreigners in rebellion. Texian Colonel James Fannin and his men surrendered to the Mexican government under the expectation that they would be treated as prisoners of war, but they were executed regardless, engendering sympathy (and eventual support) from the neighboring United States. Learn more about the Goliad Massacre.

Khrushchev becomes USSR leader

On March 27, 1958, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev became the new Premier of the USSR, replacing Joseph Stalin as the Soviet leader. During his rise to power, Khruschev denounced crimes of the Stalinist regime and the "cult of personality" surrounding his predecessor. While in office as Soviet Premier, Khruschev oversaw some of the most famous and influential events of the Cold War: the launch of Sputnik, the Sino-Soviet split, the U-2 Spy Plan incident, and finally the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963, which led to his ouster by reactionary elements the following year. The conspirators forced Khruschev's resignation on October 15, 1964 and replaced him with Leonid Brezhnev.

Read the New York Times obituary of Nikita Khrushchev.

President Andrew Johnson vetoed citizenship for slaves

On March 27, 1866, President Andrew Johnson vetoed a civil rights bill that would later become the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, conferring full US citizenship on all slaves. Read President Johnson's veto letter, transmitted to the US Senate.

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