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...with two major speeches this week. In a foreign-policy address on Monday in Los Angeles, he will call for "a new global alliance to defeat terror" and advocate a tenfold increase in funds spent on finding and eliminating unguarded nuclear, chemical and biological materials left over from the Soviet Union. And on Thursday in New Hampshire, Dean plans to flesh out his economic proposals...
...Blas, 76, was short of step but lucid and humorous?and he never forgot to light a fresh cigarette directly after the previous one expired. He recalled the 1986 phone call in which he told Marcos the Reagan Administration's support was collapsing. "Blas," Marcos bellowed. "You know the Soviets. Can you give them a call?" Remembering this exchange, Blas lit another cigarette and chuckled. He said no to his boss? in effect declining to help make the Philippines a Soviet colony three years before the Berlin Wall fell...
...weapon identify it as a TD-42 liquid, high-explosive mortar. It's impossible to know what is really in the device or if the boasts of Abu Ali and Mohammed are true. Iraqi scientists in the Military Industrialization Commission in the 1980s and early 1990s imported Soviet munitions to refill with unknown substances. Abu Ali claims that his cache came from that commission, and he is convinced the mortar contains a highly lethal gas. His group, he says, is just waiting for the right U.S. target and the right meteorological conditions to use it. When a reporter expresses skepticism...
...five former Soviet republics in Central Asia were in a beauty contest, Kyrgyzstan would win. This becomes obvious as you rumble down 30 kilometers of tarmac into Bishkek. The snow-capped Tien Shan mountains rear up like a tsunami. But unlike Nepal or other lauded upland destinations, this country and its capital are still an unknown quantity...
...youth of Bishkek show little nostalgia for their country's Soviet past. Their yearning for something new is palpable on the streets-in nightclubs such as Soho, Zeppellin or City-and in the old Soviet-style theaters, which nowadays screen DVDs of American B movies. Although it's a predominantly Muslim country, Western-style scanty dress can be seen everywhere...