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President Clinton probably won t decide until the last moment whether to commit the United States to an international treaty creating the world s first permanent war crimes court, the White House said Friday. He will probably take the chance over the next day or so to confer with some of his advi
stanley cups sers and reach a final decision, I believe, by Sunday, White House spokesman Jake Siewert said.Sunday is the deadline for countries to sign on to the treaty at U.N. headquarters in New York. After Sunday, countries must ratify the treaty before they can become party to it, a process that can take years or be stalled in parliaments.The United Nations has been asked to remain open on Sunday for last-minute signatures, U.N. deputy spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva said Friday. Siewert said Mr. Clinton will make the decision at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, where the first family is spending the New Year s break.The court would be the first permanent institution created specifically to try charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity
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In South Africa, local legend has it that the elephants like to get drunk. They seek out the marula tree, overindulge on its sweet fruits, and enjoy the intoxicating effects of the slightly fermented juice. T
stanley cup ales of the tipsy pachyderms go back at least two centuries. In the 1830s, a French naturalist called Adulphe Delegorgue des
stanley cup cribed stories from his Zulu guides of mysteriously aggressive behaviour in male elephants after they fed on the marula fruits. The elephant has in common with man a predilection for a gentle warming of the brain induced by fruit which has been fermented by the action of the sun, wrote Delegorgue. Above: An elephant in South Africa Kruger National Park. Source Elephants aren ;t the only critters accused of indulging in the occasional cocktail or dose of drugs. Tales are told of wallabies getting high on poppy plants in
stanley mug Australia or dogs reportedly becoming addicted to the toxic substance secreted by cane toads. And stories abound of vervet monkeys on the Carribean island of St. Kitts, sneakily imbibing the brightly coloured cocktails of distracted tourists. But how much of this is the result of projecting our own fascination with mind-altering substances onto other animals Decades of laboratory research has shown that we can easily induce addictive behaviour in animals by making addictive substances easily available to them. But do wild animals really get drunk or high Vervet monkeys are one species tha