February 10, 2007
Let them rot
OTTAWA, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Red Army Faction/Baader-Meinhof terrorists Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar have spent 24 years behind bars. They seek to be released.…
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January 23, 2007
Friedrich Hitzer’s compass
PRAGUE, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Friedrich Hitzer, the German publicist, translator and journalist -- and someone I greatly respected -- has died unexpectedly. He was…
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January 8, 2007
Dirty little secrets
Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The most despicable aspect about the resignation of Poland's Archbishop-designate Stanislaw Wielgus is that he almost got away with it. Not…
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May 23, 2006
Lockerbie’s lasting emptiness
LONDON, May 23, 2006 -- Steven Russell Berrell. Alexander Lowenstein. Frederick Sandford "Sandy" Phillips. A fellow fraternal brother, a surfer with a big heart, a student…
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March 21, 2006
And They All Came
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 21, 2006 (UPI) -- To a standing ovation and great sympathetic applause, Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela -- Madiba as he is…
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March 15, 2006
De Klerk at 70
FRANKFURT, Germany, March 15, 2006 (UPI). With tenacity and leadership he fought the odds. While others doubted, he believed. While others scoffed, he pushed forward. An…
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March 8, 2006
The politics of small steps
LONDON, March 8 (UPI) -- "It is the worst political crisis in Danish foreign policy history," said a ranking diplomat to an invited audience of 100…
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February 21, 2006
Democracy vs. the rule of law
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Feb. 21, 2006 -- The period between the end of World War II and the end of the Cold War was marked by…
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February 6, 2006
Contain political islam
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Annoyed. Insulted. Embarrassed. These are the words of Arabic and Asian diplomats, many of them friends of mine.…
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January 23, 2006
Jack Layton Who?
January 23 (UPI) -- It is election day in Canada. Election-day in the 2nd largest country on Earth, substantially larger than the United States. A…
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