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Post, December 16, 1997, p. A22.

47. In fact, Lord David Owen, one of the chief authors of

Bosnia's ill-fated Vance-Owen peace plan, notes, "Some ob-

servers explain the Pale Assembly decision [to reject the

Vance-Owen peace plan in 1993] in terms of a power struggle

within the Bosnian Serb leadership between the civilians and

the military, with the latter keen to be on top, in part for

fear that skeletons in their cupboard, such as massacres and

war crimes, would be uncovered by the UN if they accepted

the peace plan."  David Owen, Balkan Odyssey (New York:

Harcourt Brace, 1995), p. 167.

48. James C. McKinley Jr., "As Crowds Vent Their Rage,

Rwanda Publicly Executes 22," New York Times, April 25,

1998, p. 1.

49. Stephen Buckley, "Ex-Leader in Rwanda Admits to Geno-

cide: Hutu Premier Pleads before UN Tribunal," Washington

Post, May 2, 1998, p. A1.

50. Pamela Bone, "The Roar of the Crowd and the Pitiless

Pursuit of Justice," The Age, May 7, 1998, p. 17.

51. See Michael Boos, "The Proposed United Nations Interna-

tional Criminal Court: A Grave Threat to American Freedom,

Liberty, and Sovereignty," National Citizens Legal Network,

Fairfax, Va., 1998.

52. 341 U.S. 223, 230 (1951).

53. See James Podgers, "The World Cries for Justice," ABA

Journal, April 1996, p. 58.

54. Diana Johnstone, "Selective Justice in The Hague," Na-

tion, September 22, 1997, p. 19.

55. Ibid., pp. 19-20.

56. "... And Serious Reform," Wall Street Journal Europe,

April 16, 1997, p. 6.  Excerpts from an interview by Mirko

Klarin, European correspondent for the Belgrade independent

daily Nasa Borba.

57. Quoted in Tim Cuprisin, "Area Lawyer Defending Serbian

UN Tribunal Accuses His Client of War Crimes against Mus-

lims," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 20, 1995, p. B3.