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...know the truth?? says Junker, who grew up in a German enclave of Romania and served in the Waffen-SS during the war, then came to the U.S. in 1955, worked as a janitor and handyman in Chicago and became a citizen some five years later. ?I?d wake up in the middle of the night and it would hit me. Because for 60 years it was taught one way. I said a long time ago I would do something about it, but I was farming and never had the time. Now I have no fear...
...heist was a wake-up call for Turkey, with its rich storehouse of antiquities, and has helped expose the shoddy state of museums across the country. Culture minister Atilla Koc last week ordered a nationwide inventory of museums. Several institutions are now being investigated for losses. The inquiry has already produced results; the manager of the depot at another Turkish museum in south-central Turkey was arrested Tuesday after 545 ancient coins were switched with fakes on his watch...
...Nigerian governments have otherwise shown little or no interest. The multinational oil companies have not helped by playing a massive role in environmental pollution and doing little to help residents of the delta. The international community, especially the U.S. and Britain, should do more so the world does not wake up to another Iraqi-style insurgency. Henry Ilonah Reading, England Like Canaries in a Coal Mine Ii was shocked to learn from "Bye bye Birdies" [May 22] that climate change may be killing migratory birds. I had no idea there was a link between declining bird populations and global warming...
...community, who they claim arrive on easily obtainable student visas before beginning to deal cocaine and heroin to the wealthy. In the capital, four cocaine busts have been made this year - after nine busts in the whole of 2005. But the number of arrests may soon grow in the wake of the Mahajan scandal...
...wealthy have hitherto frowned upon hard drugs, looking upon them as the purvey of the country's poor. For years, India has grappled with "brown sugar" -low-grade heroin produced locally or imported from Afghanistan or Burma - that has left a trail of overdoses and HIV infections in its wake...