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Wechsler grew up in a liberal Jewish family in New York in the 1930’s, his father an art dealer and his mother an Estonian immigrant. Despite financial troubles, his parents provided him with an elite education that culminated at Harvard, where he majored in economics, focusing on workers’ unions...
...ever seen. We'd love to have it at NORAD in Alaska." With its central monitoring station in Karmelava, Lithuania, 100 km west of Vilnius, BaltNet can track any aircraft in Baltic airspace. The $100 million system - funded by the U.S. and Norway - enables the mixed Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian crews to monitor planes flying over Russia's nearby, heavily militarized, enclave of Kaliningrad. "The Russians probably don't like that," shrugs Second Lieut. Rimantas Rudnickas, a Lithuanian member of the BaltNet team. That's probably an understatement. Last month, the Russian daily Vremya Novostei described the network...
Fayanju says his most memorable small-talk feat occurred when he met a student from Estonia and was able to ask specific questions about the status of small Estonian villages. “The guy said, ‘You know more about my country than anyone else in America,’” he says. “People remember me because I represent a bit of home to them...
...thousand tariffs it had previously abolished. Employers grouse about workplace regulations, from paid vacations to health and safety standards, designed for countries whose GDP per head is three times greater than theirs. Even though their refurbished roads bear signs saying brought to you by the E.U., only 33% of Estonians and Latvians think joining is a good thing. That's less than in any other candidate country. Many regard the Union as quasi-socialist and culturally homogenizing - a hit song from Latvia starts "Europe will not understand us." None of that translates into political opposition; Estonia's main parties...
...power. Earlier this month, the President sacked the head of France's domestic intelligence service following leaked allegations that his RPR party benefited from an alleged ransom paid to free French hostages in Lebanon in 1988. ESTONIA SS Monument Authorities in the city of Parnu removed a monument honoring Estonians who fought alongside the Nazis in World War II. The monument showed a man in an Estonian SS uniform and bore a dedication to servicemen in what it called their efforts to liberate the homeland. The removal took place after the city blocked the unveiling of the monument and ordered...