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MOBILE TVAT ITS FINALFRONTIERPAGE 13 | BUSINESS WITH

FRIEDMANON OBAMA’SNEXT TASKPAGE 9 | VIEWS

HAMILTONLEAPS INTOTHE BREACHPAGE 10 | FORMULA ONE

RAWSTHORNON CREATINGJUST FOR FUNPAGE 6 | DESIGN

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VIEWS

Justice vs. impunityA permanent International CriminalCourt must also become a universalone.We have learned that justice is notan impediment to peace but a partnerto it, writes Kofi Annan. PAGE 8

Jamaica’s violent democracyThe violence tearing apart Jamaicaraises serious and disturbing questionsabout the broader link betweenviolence and democracy itself, writesOrlando Patterson. PAGE 8

ONLINE

In Peter the Great’s footstepsThree hundred years ago, Czar Peter

wentwest. Traveling under apseudonym, he turned himself into anapprentice and studiedEuropeanadvances, from shipbuilding togovernance. Then he returned toremakeRussia. Nextmonth, PresidentMedvedev of Russiawill travel to SiliconValley, which is acting as a template fora new scientific city being built outsideMoscow. global.nytimes.com/europe

BUSINESS

Another British Airways strikeBritish Airways cabin crews began anew five-day strike Sunday as a bitterdispute withmanagement over pay andworking conditions dragged onwithlittle sign of a breakthrough. PAGE 13

MONROVIA, LIBERIA

BY DOREEN CARVAJAL

Howmuchmoney did CharlesG. Taylor,the deposed president of Liberia, siphonout of his destitute, war-shattered coun-try, and where is it?For almost sevenyears, since an inter-

national warrant was issued for his ar-rest, the search has stretched from themangrove swamps and diamond fieldsof West Africa to Swiss banks and shellcorporations—astate-of-the-art versionof the sweepingasset hunts that haveac-companied the fall of autocrats since theshah of Iran’s demise in the 1970s.Investigators have crawled in the dirt

under porches and buildings in this im-poverished capital to seek out financialrecords. They have confronted bankersand government officials on four conti-nents. They have cross-referencedmazes of documents charting the trans-

fer of millions of dollars into and out ofdozens of accounts.But they have come up dry for any

money inMr. Taylor’s name. In fact, fouryears ago, Mr. Taylor was classified as‘‘partially indigent’’ by theSpecialCourtfor Sierra Leone at TheHague,where heis charged with instigating murder, mu-tilation, rape and sexual slavery duringintertwined wars in Liberia and SierraLeone that claimed more than 250,000victims from 1989 to 2003.That has left donor nations — the

United States being the largest — tocover his monthly $100,000 legal bill andthe broader costs of his $20million trial.But the investigators push on, and a

review by the International HeraldTribune of court transcripts, bank rec-ords, and newly available governmentreceipts and confidential prosecutionmemos indicateswhy they are reluctantto give up the hunt.Some of the records show how the

country’s largest timber company senttax payments to Mr. Taylor’s private ac-count rather than the national treasury.Others tracehugepaymentsmadeby thedominant cellphone company to peoplesuspectedof beingTaylor cronies.Othersdepict a web of front companies andbanks from Hong Kong to New York in-volved in themovementofmillionsofdol-lars intoMr. Taylor’s accounts in Liberia.‘‘Money would go to an arms dealer

or an ally and from there to a moneymanagement firm and then back toLiberia, then cashed out and moved toanother bank account,’’ said Thomas R.Creal, an accountant from Chicago whofor five years has led the search for theUnited Nations.Retained by Liberia, he and three law

firms are developing a new strategy in-volving filing civil damage claimsagainst companies, governments andinternational banks that they contendTAYLOR, PAGE 4

LYNSEY ADDARIO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Corporal Lisa Gardner taking an Afghan baby to a U.S. medical officer for care in Helmand.

Womenmarines forge bonds to break barriersABDUL GHAYAS, AFGHANISTAN

BY ELISABETH BUMILLER

Two young femaleU.S.marines trudgedalongwith an infantry patrol in the heat,soaked through their camouflage uni-forms under nearly 30 kilograms ofgear. But only when they reached thisspeck of a village in the Taliban heart-land on a recent afternoondid their hardwork begin.For two hours inside a mud-walled

compound, the marines, Cpl. DianaAmaya, 23, and Cpl. Lisa Gardner, 28,set aside their rifles and body armorand tried to connect with four nervousAfghanwomenwearing veils. Overmul-tiple cups of tea, the Americans madesmall talk through a military interpret-er or in their own beginner’s Pashtu. AFGHANISTAN, PAGE 7

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Charles Taylor at the Special Court forSierra Leone in The Hague in 2009.

Then they encouraged the Afghans,who by now had shyly uncovered theirfaces, to sew handicrafts that could besold at a local bazaar.‘‘We just need a couple of strong

women,’’ Corporal Amaya said, in hopesof enlisting them to bring a measure oflocal commerce to the perilous worldoutside their door.Corporal Amaya’s words could also

describe her own daunting mission,

Could cure for debt crisisdo more harm than good?FRANKFURT

BY JACK EWING

The so-called Club Med countries maybe giving Europe fits with their outsizedebts, but at the original Club Med —the French resort operator — the samecountries are on sale.Club Méditerranée is advertising dis-

counts on holidays to Greece, Portugaland otherEuropean destinations, amar-keting strategy that, it turns out, may goa long way toward explaining whyEurope is likely tohaveahard timeover-coming its current economic problems.With Club Med and many other Euro-

pean businesses holding prices steadyor even cutting them, many economistsare beginning to question whether theEuropeanCentralBank’s obsessionwithinflationmakes sense right now. Indeed,some of these experts say that deflationcould be the bigger threat to Europe.

The downwardpressure onprices hasits roots in the economic decline that fol-lowed the 2008 financial crisis, butEurope’s sovereign debt crisis is likelyto add extra impetus. To mollify bondmarkets, governments including thoseof Spain and Germany are reducingspending sharply to lower their deficits,which will inevitably curb demand.The E.C.B.’s doubters grew louder

after the central bank made a big showof taking measures to cancel out thesupposed inflationary impact of thegovernment bond purchases it beganmaking on May 10 to help keep Greeceand a couple of other euro-zone coun-tries from defaulting on their debts.‘‘It’s nuts: how can they be concerned

about the inflationary impact of this?’’said Carl B. Weinberg, chief economistof High Frequency Economics in Val-halla, New York. ‘‘If I were the head ofthe E.C.B. I would be printing money toDEFLATION, PAGE 16

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Workers cleaning up oil residue Sunday in Grand Isle, Louisiana. A government official called the leak ‘‘probably the biggest environmental disaster’’ in U.S. history.

Oil still gushing, BP to try yet another techniqueWASHINGTON

BY BRIAN KNOWLTON,LESLIE KAUFMANAND CLIFFORD KRAUSS

Abandoning its ambitious ‘‘top kill’’plan, BP turned to a new approach overthe weekend as its last serious hope be-fore reliefwells are completed inAugustto contain an oil spill that aWhiteHouseadviser on Sunday called ‘‘probably thebiggest environmental disaster we’veever faced in this country.’’

‘‘We are prepared for the worst,’’ saidthe adviser, Carol Browner, who dealswith energy and climate change issues.BPandadministrationofficials hadex-

pressed high hopes for the so-called topkill technique, which involved pumpingtonsof heavydrillingmud into thewell tostem the flow. Instead, theywill now takea second attempt to place a containmentcap over the leak, bolstered by their les-sons from the first failed attempt.The prospect of oil gushing into the

Gulf ofMexico formonthsmore— it hasalready far surpassed the Exxon Valdez

disaster — would mean environmentaland economic damage of breathtakingproportions, not to mention billions ofdollars in further liabilities for BP, thebesieged British company. The grimnew picture raised speculation of a pos-sible complete government takeover ofthe effort in the Gulf.‘‘We are disappointed,’’ Bob Dudley,

managing director of BP, said Sunday,saying the upward flow was too strongto contain with the top kill technique.‘‘Simply toomuch ofwhatwepumped

in was escaping,’’ said a technician

working on the top kill, who spoke onthe condition of anonymity because hewas not authorized to speak publicly forBP. ‘‘The engineers are disappointed,and management is upset. Nothing isgood. Nothing is good.’’Energy Secretary Steven Chu took

part in the decision Saturday to drop the

The elusive fortuneof Charles TaylorInvestigators pursue cashthey contend the jailedex-leader of Liberia stole

SPILL, PAGE 7

THE FEMALE FACTORSeeking engagement

part of a program intended to help im-prove the prospects for the UnitedStates in Afghanistan — and also, per-haps, to redefine gender roles in com-bat.Three months ago, Corporal Amaya

was one of 40 femalemarines training atCamp Pendleton, California, in an edgyexperiment: sending full-time ‘‘femaleengagement teams’’ to accompany all-

IS TRIUMPH OF TECHNOLOGY ASSURED?Amid the struggle to plug the underseawell, it seems Americans’ great beliefin technology is misplaced. PAGE 7

Cultivating good willwith Afghans, they seekties transcending gender

CONFERENCE ON CRIME OF AGGRESSIONNations, rights groups and lawyersmeetMonday inUganda to possibly expandthe power of international law. PAGE 4

SPORTS

A letdown for VenusWilliamsShe was overpowered in the fourthround byNadia Petrova, the 19th seed,who advanced to the quarterfinals witha 6-4, 6-3 victory at the French Open onSunday. PAGE 11

WORLD NEWS

Berlusconi seeks wiretap limitsHoping to rein in embarrassing leaks,the center-right government of PrimeMinister Silvio Berlusconi is pressingfor a contentious new law that wouldseverely restrict magistrates’ ability towiretap and journalists’ ability topublish the results. PAGE 3

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Why Korea is still a tinderboxUsually, there is a familiar cycle to Koreacrises, and the betting is that the latestonewill abatewithoutmuch escalation.Butwhat if this time is different?

Putting a limit on friendshipWhat would be an impressive, evenexhaustive, number of friends in reallife is bush league for Facebook’s highrollers, who have thousands. But thesite does have a limit, 5,000. PAGE 15

Newworry for world economyLabor unrest in China calls intoquestion the ability of multinationals tokeep their supply lines open, and itdiscourages investment, too. PAGE 16

Economy propels Czech rightAlthough the center-left SocialDemocrats narrowlywon parliamentaryelections in the CzechRepublic, center-right parties began talks Sunday onforming a coalition government aftervoters spooked by the economic crisis inGreece gave politicians favoring fiscalausterity themost votes over all. PAGE 3

Popular U.K. minister resignsDavid Laws, aminister in Britain’s newcoalition government, resigned after anewspaper reported that he hadreceived refunds for rental paymentsthat he hadmade to a long-term partner.It was not public knowledge before thereport thatMr. Lawswas gay. PAGE 3

Dennis Hopper, a true rebelA look at the life of the prolific actor, whowas also a photographer, artist and artcollector, is like tracing contemporaryculture and the history ofmodernmovies. He died Saturday at 74. PAGE 4

Harmony reigns at the GiroTeam spirit was the order of the day inVerona as Ivan Basso, 32, won the Girod’Italia with help fromVincenzo Nibali,a 25-year-oldmember of the samesquad. PAGE 12