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DATE: THURSDAY, April 22, 1993                   TAG: 9304220092
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

FEMALE PROSECUTORS SOUGHT IN WAR RAPES

Cases of wartime rape in former Yugoslavia should be handled by female prosecutors with hearsay witnesses and sealed testimony allowed in the international court, Geraldine Ferraro proposed Wednesday.

Ferraro, a former prosecutor and congresswoman who was the 1984 Democratic vice presidential nominee, also suggested that television reporters allow release of film for evidence even when it has not been used in broadcasts.

"Anyone who has worked in the field will tell you that women and children who have been sexually violated find it easier to talk to a woman about the assault," she told the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, an unofficial group in Congress dealing with U.S.-European matters.

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