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May 1998 News and Events
1998 News Month-By-MonthWorldFormer Premier Admits to Rwanda Massacres (May 1): Jean Kambanda pleads guilty to genocide charges before U.N. tribunal. He faces life in prison.Europeans Agree…August 1998 News and Events
1998 News Month-By-MonthWorldArafat Reshuffles Cabinet (Aug. 5): Palestinian leader defies Legislative Council by retaining ministers it wanted ousted for alleged mismanagement.Iraq Ends…Defining Genocide
 by Borgna Brunner   genocide: from the Greek genos, meaning race; and the Latin suffix -cidium, meaning killing Related Links Encyclopedia:GenocideHolocaust…Year in Review 1999
News ofthe World While bloody wars broke out in Kosovo and Chechnya, the possiblity of peace in the Middle East and Northern Ireland grew more palpable. News ofthe Nation Handguns became the…Lithuania Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Lithuania Index: Geography People Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations GEOGRAPHYThe largest and most populous of the Baltic…Slovakia Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Slovakia Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy National Security Foreign Relations U.S.-Slovakia Relations PEOPLEThe…2001 World News Events
—Borgna Brunner The ultimatum issued to the Taliban after Sept. 11 to turn over bin Laden was the last of several such demands made by the U.S. and the UN after bin Laden was implicated in the…March 2004
WorldPutin Appoints Prime Minister (March 1): Russian president names Mikhail Fradkov as premier. (March 14): Putin overwhelmingly reelected to a second term. Suicide Bombers Hit Iraqi…February 2000 News and Events
WorldAlbright Meets New Russian Leader (Feb. 2): Secretary of State praises Vladimir V. Putin as “well-informed” and eager for a “normal position with the West.” War in Chechnya remains a…William Jefferson Clinton
William Jefferson ClintonBorn: 8/19/1946Birthplace: Hope, Ark. William Jefferson Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Ark., on Aug. 19, 1946. He was named for his father,…Trending
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