CONVICTED. JEAN-PAUL AKAYESU, an ex-mayor from central Rwanda; of genocide; by a U.N. tribunal in Tanzania. It is the first such verdict by an international court. Former Rwandan Prime Minister JEAN KAMBANDA, who pleaded guilty to the crime, was sentenced to life in prison.
DIED. JONATHAN MANN, 51, aids and human-rights activist who in 1986 founded the World Health Organization's program to fight AIDS; aboard Swissair Flight 111. His wife, MARY LOU CLEMENTS-MANN, 51, an AIDS vaccine expert, also died in the crash.
DIED. AKIRA KUROSAWA, 88, cinematic visionary whose visceral and visually compelling films integrated Japanese culture into the global...
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