Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- <<<Clark, 73, a campaigner for left-wing and other causes often at odds with U.S. authorities>>> Those darn lefties... On 31 Jul 01, at 8:07, Rick Rozoff wrote: > Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------------------------- > > [Screen out the standard mantras and shibboleths of > the putative free press which, if it truly was free - > or even respectably kept - would sooner apply epithets > like "former strongman" to Lyndon Johnson, mentioned > at the bottom, than to victims of imperialism like > Slobodan Milosevic. > (Do the denizens of the Western press bordellos > receive coupons or frequent flyer miles for every time > they retail some threadbare derogatory cliche? Can't > their masters afford a thesaurus?)] > > > Tuesday July 31 9:59 AM ET > Ex-U.S. Attorney Ramsey Clark Sees Milosevic in Jail > AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former U.S. attorney general > Ramsey Clark visited ousted Yugoslav president > Slobodan Milosevic in a U.N. detention unit near The > Hague, a spokesman for the war crimes tribunal said on > Tuesday. > New York-based Clark, who condemned the 1999 NATO > bombing of Yugoslavia during the conflict over Kosovo, > had said Milosevic asked him through intermediaries > earlier this month to see him. > Tribunal spokesman Jim Landale said the visit lasted > ``a couple of hours�� on Monday but that Clark was not > acting as Milosevic�s lawyer. ``He has not been given > power of attorney for Mr. Milosevic but he is giving > him legal advice,�� Landale said. > No details of Clark's visit were available. > The former Serbian strongman was arrested in Belgrade > last month and sent to The Hague to be tried for > crimes against humanity related to mass killings and > expulsions of Kosovo Albanians in 1999 by Serbian > forces under his command. > Milosevic has steadfastly refused to accept legal > representation in a show of contempt against the > tribunal, and remains in solitary confinement at his > own request. > Clark, 73, a campaigner for left-wing and other causes > often at odds with U.S. authorities, served as > attorney general under President Lyndon Johnson in the > late 1960s. He had previously visited Milosevic in > Belgrade in 1999. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------- > This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has >been shut down > > > > ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
