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Milosevic cheats death.(on the right)
NEW YORK, MARCH 14
THE inside story: The date was October 15, 1946. The Nazi war criminals would be hanged the next day. It was an event so momentous that the president of United Press announced to his staff in New York City that he personally would superintend the story from UP's central office in the Daily News building. He shoved the pros to one side, donned a green eyeshade, and sat over his Teletype. The 10-bell sign went off, indicating a story of the first magnitude. He got the news and typed out a headline for UP's 5,400 subscribers worldwide. It read: "GOERING CHEATS DEATH BY COMMITTING SUICIDE."
Fifty-four hundred varieties of snickers and derision poured in from offices around the world. The president doffed his green eyeshade and returned silently to his administrative quarters, leaving the news cockpit to the regular night editor.
There was fury in Nuremberg over what happened. Goering was by far the most conspicuous of the captured Nazis. It had been a very long trial, almost a year from arraignments to executions. There were 21 defendants, and the sentences were varied, including three acquittals. There was plenty to do the next day to keep the hangman busy, but Hermann Goering had ruined the party.
An effort was made to immure in the confines of Spandau Prison the news of Goering's outsmarting his jailers, but the word got out, and what was feared indeed happened: There was quiet celebration by vanquished Germans inclined to ignore the crime and daydream of the glories of the Third Reich, whose last surviving grandee had had the last laugh at the expense of the hangman.
Slobodan Milosevic didn't cheat death by committing suicide, or by contriving to weaken mortally his health, but he certainly removed such satisfaction as was owed to mourners for the 250,000 people killed in the former Yugoslavia owing substantially to Milosevic and the Serbian terrorism he mobilized.
The day in 2001 when Milosevic was turned over to an international tribunal for trial was ...
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