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DIED. LENNART MERI, 76, witty, charismatic first President of independent Estonia after its 1991 split from the Soviet Union; in Tallinn. A survivor of a Soviet labor camp, he pushed free-market policies and established close ties with the U.S. during his two terms as President...
...that every corner of the planet seems to boast a Thai-style treatment pavilion or Ayurvedic retreat) Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul should come as an intriguing discovery. Or perhaps that should be "rediscovery," since travelers on the Silk Road knew of the lake's therapeutic value for centuries. Soviet apparatchiks were also fond of it, holidaying in one of the 40 workers' sanatoria built by the communist state around the lake's 600 km of shoreline. Today, many of these facilities?now privately run?are luring holidaymakers from further afield with cheap accommodation and treatment packages...
...there's any other dissonant note, it's the knowledge that Lake Issyk-Kul was a top-secret testing site for Soviet torpedoes in the period after World War II. To this day, it remains unclear how many were exploded or what, if anything, their warheads contained. While visitors will want to be aware of Lake Issyk-Kul's history, there is no evidence that the testing has caused any lasting damage to the lake's ecology, and both Russian families and avid anglers have happily vacationed there for many years. The Kyrgyz authorities also insist that the lake...
...This is a defining challenge of our time, in a way containing the Soviet Union was the defining challenge of the previous era. I think is necessary is that the American people give us the time. I believe that we have the right approach here, it needs to have the opportunity to reveal itself in terms of shaping the facts on the ground. I think getting the Sunnis to participate, which was the focus of a lot of concerted effort, did produce results. It hasn't changed the violence as much as perhaps people had expected. I believe we have...
DIED. JOHN PROFUMO, 91, former British War Minister who resigned from the Cabinet in 1963 after lying to Parliament about his affair with a prostitute, Christine Keeler, then 19, whose other clients included a Soviet diplomat; in London. The Profumo scandal hastened the end of the eight-year reign of the Conservative government and encouraged the rise of a combative press...