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...Easing Tensions Re "How to avoid a new cold war" [June 18]: Whenever someone asks me to explain the murky goings-on in Eastern Europe, I say, Read Zbigniew Brzezinski. Zbig is nash, or "one of us," in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish. He has the personal background and intelligence to see everything clearly, as well as the courage and ability to expound on it coherently. The West cannot afford to allow his advice to go unheeded. Ksenia Lena Maryniak, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, EDMONTON, CANADA
...bomb attack on Glasgow's main airport - just a day after two cars packed with explosives and nails were discovered in central London - police raided a house on the Crescent that was home, neighbors say, to two men in their late 20s or early 30s who looked Middle Eastern or South Asian...
...FACT THAT BELLY dancing, an ancient Middle Eastern tradition, is widely known throughout the U.S. is largely due to one woman: choreographer Serena Wilson. In the '60s she opened her renowned New York City studio--among the first in the U.S. to focus exclusively on belly dancing--and over four decades helped bring the rhythmic dancing into the mainstream. To combat its sexualized image, Wilson barred her dancers from performing at male gatherings (bar mitzvahs included). She was 73 and died from a pulmonary embolism...
...Samarra, the fighting has taken on a daily rhythm. In the afternoons, insurgents sling mortars, rockets and bullets into U.S. and Iraqi compounds, usually disappearing in the street before anyone has a chance to kill or wound them. At night, U.S. troops roll from their outpost on the eastern edge of Samarra and search those same streets for fighters moving about laying roadside bombs. They usually find some, and shooting erupts again...
...fighting that killed the insurgent later publicly hung began when guerillas attacked a newly established police outpost on the eastern side of the city. The police fought off the attackers but then abandoned the post later in the day, fearing another assault they could not stop. American trainers pressed the police to return to the station. They did, only to find it destroyed. Insurgents entered the building in the time the police were gone, rigged the structure with explosives and demolished it. Now the only police presence in Samarra away from the American base is a small outpost...