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Opens Bosnia War Crimes Trial   THE HAGUE — The first
international war crimes trial since the end of World War II
began here Tuesday amid a sense of anticipation and history, but
with troubling questions hanging in the air and a small-time
Bosnian Serb political operator named Dusan Tadic as the lone
defendant.  "This trial has clear historic dimensions, but we
must all remember that first and foremost this is a criminal
trial," said Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, the American presiding
judge of the court, which is formally known as the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.  "Whatever goes on
outside this courtroom, we want justice to be done and to be
seen to be done," she said.  Tuesday's trial began more than two
years after the tribunal was established by the United Nations
to investigate and prosecute war crimes committed during the
Balkan war. It has also been more than two years since Tadic was
arrested by German police in Mun