Editorials.

The article presents information on several socio-political developments from across the world. The decision of three U.S. Court of Appeals judges that former U.S. President Richard Nixon should be paid for the U.S. White House tapes seized by the government may be legally correct, but it flouts justice and common sense. It also reduces to absurdity the shaky "custom" under which Presidents are granted ownership of their papers. The tapes, which contained revelations about the Watergate cover-up, were seized by order of the U.S. Congress, along with other materials, to prevent tampering. As the international community concentrates its efforts on tightening the sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro, it is ignoring a crisis in neighboring Macedonia that threatens to plunge the entire southern Balkans into war.