Iraq's mendacious 12,000-page initial declaration was proof that Saddam Hussein has no intention of taking the United Nations up on what the Security Council unanimously agreed was his last chance to avoid war.
This declaration, viewed as proof of increasing Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia, or PKI) power, led to conflict between the PKI and the military.
After a day of rumors in the Pakistani news media than an emergency declaration would come, the first proof came just after 5 p.m., when independent and international television news stations abruptly went blank in Islamabad and other major cities.
The declarations (and the "offers of proof") from numerous potential witnesses now before the court provide some insight as to how its various provisions might operate, but for the most part they are merely the predictions of purportedly knowledgeable people as to effects which may or may not ensue if the proposed final judgment is entered.
The first of Ricoeur's (2004, 136) stages of the historical operation, the documentary phase, is concerned with "the establishment of documentary proof" and "runs from the declarations of eyewitnesses to the constructing of archives".
Nowadays we can trace our roots through many genealogy web sites, but in the Sixties all I had for proof was my great-grandma's declarations and a family tree created on paper by another distant cousin, Grace Frommeyer.
The timing of alerts in the future should be "closer to the actual scientific basis and proof that is needed to make certain declarations," Mr. Dalli said.
Perhaps for this reason, Ms. Rice and others repeat frequently now that "the burden of proof is on the Iraqis," and that this declaration was, in the words of the Security Council resolution, a "final chance" to come clean.
McIntosh explains, "Proof of need for a conservatorship requires a capacity declaration from a treating doctor".
Although a subsequent president -- or a veto-proof majority of Congress -- could overturn a declaration, no monument has ever been revoked.
