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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A top Canadian official sought to calm an international uproar over hundreds of ducks killed at Canada's biggest oil sands plant by promising, at a U.S. oil industry event on Monday, that the incident will not go unpunished. The deaths of 500 ducks last week on a Syncrude Canada Ltd wastewater pond was unacceptable, Industry Minister Jim Prentice said during an acceptance speech after Canada was named "Country of the Year" by Energy Magazine. "We anticipate those responsible will face full scrutiny under Canadian law and, insofar as the government of Canada is concerned, there will...

Scandal: By voluntarily surrendering his law license, Clinton White House aide Sandy Berger has avoided cross-examination in Trouser-gate. This is the behavior of a man who's still hiding something. The former national security adviser is guilty of stealing classified documents, but it seems there's be more here than the simple or inadvertent theft of few innocuous papers. Berger admitted that while reviewing top-secret dossiers from the Clinton years in the National Archives in preparation for his 2003 testimony before the 9/11 Commission hearings, he stuffed five copies of a memo linked to the Clinton administration's record on terrorism in his...

Venezuela has accused US officials of stopping its foreign minister and stripping him of his travel documents after he visited the UN. President Hugo Chavez said that the minister, Nicolas Maduro, had been questioned about his alleged role in a failed Venezuelan coup attempt in 1992. "That is absolutely false - he didn't even participate," Mr Chavez, who led the abortive coup, added. No US comment on the Venezuelan reports was immediately available.

PERSPECTIVE COLUMN: Stoking fires of history Broaddrick just wanted to get the story 'out there'MICHAEL LEAHY VAN BUREN -- The previous evening had been difficult. "When that woman cried, I cried," she'd said to her husband, referring to the woman on the television program they'd just finished watching, the woman who just happened to be herself. She was Juanita observing Juanita from afar. She often speaks with this kind of detachment, as this is Juanita Broaddrick's way of protecting herself, of doing her best to distance herself from the pain she endured in 1978 and must recount now.    A...

Fight rapists, not mythical 'rape culture' By Brian CarnellFriday, April 14, 2000 By Elisabeth Carnell "Fight the rape culture." Slogan seen at a protest of the Western Herald        Before feminists get all up in arms to fun off and fight the rape culture, they might want to start by fighting rapists first.        The number of women victimized by rape and attempted yearly in our nation is staggering. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2 in 1,000 women over 12 are the victims of rape/attempted rape. Although the incidence of rape has declined in recent years thanks largely to demographic...