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February 19, 2008

A communist apologist wins

HAMILTON, Ontario, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Czech President Vaclav Klaus barely won a second five-year term from Parliament on the weekend. Klaus was given a run…
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February 12, 2008

U.S. Elections – in their own words

TORONTO, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- No U.S. presidential primary in recent memory has been watched overseas more closely than the 2008 contest. It has also brought…
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February 6, 2008

As the votes came in

SYRACUSE, N.Y., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- It is 8:50 p.m. EST on Super Tuesday. I have just gotten off the phone with former NATO Supreme Allied…
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February 1, 2008

Kiwis, Cows and Kangaroos

LONDON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A famous vignette of World War II has Field Marshall Montgomery visiting a New Zealand regiment in North Africa. Montgomery's…
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January 10, 2008

Hillary’s tear to victory

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Her defining moment is not really the tear she almost shed. The defining moment was her loss in Iowa.…
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January 4, 2008

Hillary’s aura evaporates

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- I have been telling the European political classes that U.S. elections are complicated. I have been explaining to them that…
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January 2, 2008

The death of honor in sports

VIENNA, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- I had a recent conversation with the sons of an old friend. They are in their teens and had overheard me…
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December 31, 2007

Pakistan’s drop to the abyss

MALMO, Sweden, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- "Musharraf will bring us to the brink," Pakistan's Ambassador Asif Ezdi said to me privately in Berlin in December 2002.…
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December 26, 2007

Voting, thuggery and fraud

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been…
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December 7, 2007

Lomeiko turns a new leaf

BADEN-BADEN, Germany, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- He accompanied Mikhail Gorbachev through Glasnost and Perestroika. His eloquent – if sometimes evasive – answers during the famous news…
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