June 23, 2009
Leadership springing from evil
TEREZIN, Czech Republic, June 30 (UPI) -- Leadership comes in many forms. Often it springs from a crisis -- often from evil. Normal people become…
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June 19, 2009
1969, 1989, 2009
BURY ST. EDMUNDS, England, June 19 (UPI) -- I lie on the sofa watching the student demonstrations in Iran, dozing in and out, recovering from…
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June 1, 2009
Global vignettes poles apart
BUCHAREST, Romania, June 1 (UPI) -- My cigarette in hand, I glimpsed what I thought was a U.S. Army Combat Uniform. After security, I saw…
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May 20, 2009
The Duty of Memory
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 20 (UPI) -- For the civil rights movement it is a city associated with Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. For…
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May 7, 2009
Hillary’s Prague Radio Free Europe visit
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 7 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been rather exceptional in her first 100 days in office. She has been a…
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April 27, 2009
Ilya Rips, a Latvian Anti-Communist Hero
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, April 27 (UPI) -- Flames began to engulf the young man at the foot of Riga's Freedom Monument. A brilliant 21-year-old student…
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April 15, 2009
Romania’s Princess at 60
BUCHAREST, Romania, April 15 (UPI) -- The honor guard stood in full regalia as King Michael and Queen Anne strode the staircase to their waiting…
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March 24, 2009
Sarkozy’s European Voice
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 24 (UPI) -- In little more than a week, European leaders will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama in Strasbourg, France. Europeans…
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February 25, 2009
Wesley Clark’s Touch
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- More than a decade ago U.S. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the supreme allied commander Europe, arrived in Prague…
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February 4, 2009
Dean, a man for all seasons
GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- He was down to earth as always. Having just arrived from Davos, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, M.D., the…
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