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...York Times first reported last week, the CIA is investigating the possibility that a Russian scientist, Nelli Maltseva, ferried a nasty strain of smallpox from the Research Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow to Iraq in 1990. She died two years ago.The allegation caused quite a kerfuffle in Russia. Maltseva's daughter Natalia, a cardiologist, has threatened to sue the newspaper for having "blackened her mother's reputation." The institute's current director, Vitali Zverev, says the last time Maltseva handled smallpox was in 1982, which was also the last time she traveled abroad--to Finland, not Iraq...
...MOSCOW SIEGE The Hostages Fight Back "I hate the terrorists who took my daughter hostage," says Tatyana Frolova, a notary public whose teenage daughter, Dasha, died in October when Russian commandos stormed Moscow's Theater Center on Dubrovka, where 41 Chechen terrorists held some 850 people hostage. "But those who ordered what they called the 'rescue operation' I hate even more." To knock out the terrorists before the raid, the Russians used a still unidentified gas that also hammered the hostages. At least 127 hostages were killed by the gas at the scene or died later from its aftereffects. "There...
...China has already fired warning shots across Kim's bow. During a summit this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin put North Korea high on their agenda, and afterwards issued a joint statement urging Pyongyang to drop its nuclear weapons program. Last week, Beijing signaled that Kim, who has visited China twice in the last three years, is for the moment persona non grata on the mainland. Asked about reports that a sit-down between Kim and Chinese leaders was imminent, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said: "There is no such thing." "The idea that China...
...word to our Russian friends: Nyet...
...bells have been rung almost constantly since the House was built and became such an important part of the House that in the 1950s students founded the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers, which still exists...