August 11, 2009
My Suggested Price-Tags
MALMO, Sweden, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. economic bailout is for the birds. Meanwhile, the United States continues to spend $16 billion per month…
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July 27, 2009
One Small Step To Bulgaria
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 27 (UPI) -- It might be true. I take Bulgarians seriously. It could just as well be my Andy Warhol moment. On Friday,…
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July 22, 2009
Monsoon season in Ostrava
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic, July 22 (UPI) -- Nineteen years after communism's demise, the Czech Republic is mostly a model of success. Still, many in the…
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July 3, 2009
A forthright Gen. Wes Clark
OXFORD, England, July 3 (UPI) -- Gen. Wesley Clark has served the United States with honor for 45 years -- 38 of them in the…
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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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