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...BACKLASH, Oct. 1], you referred to Assyrians as Arab Americans. Assyrians are Christians who were originally from the land of the Tigris and Euphrates, where Iraq is today. The Assyrian people are not Arabs. Readers can find out more about us at www.aina.org/aol/peter/brief.htm ATORINA ZOMAYA Skokie, Ill...
...HUNT, Oct. 8]. Today the talk is of cooperation. No doubt Bush will succeed in winning the backing he needs, but this is an opportunity to end an era of selfish isolationism. The U.S. is accountable to other nations, just as it now needs their support. SAM CHAN Deerfield, Ill...
...terror as the attack on Sept. 11th. The nation was terrified by the airliners that slammed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing more than 5,000 people. The assault of anthrax-laced letters has caused insignificant casualties by comparison - three dead, a couple of people seriously ill, a handful sick but recovering, and fewer than 50 slightly tainted - but it has created a terror in this country no less intense and widespread than what erupted on Sept. 11th...
...single or widowed grandparents, a grandchild can fill the need for a traveling companion. In recent years, Luella Kramer's husband has been too ill to travel with her. Last year the 76-year-old from Holden, Mass., considered a Kenya tour, she says, "but I thought, 'It's not much fun looking at the African moon with a bunch of ladies.' Then I thought, 'I could go with Jeff!'" Jeff, 12, of Ashland, Mass., jumped at the chance to see zebras and monkeys on the Grandtravel Safari. Luella enjoyed it so much that this past summer she took Jeff...
...Back on the border in Termez, ill-kept former Soviet tank firing ranges litter the desert. Broken barbed wire marks the outskirts of a separate military installation. Few people are on the streets. The banging of ripped corrugated iron against concrete supports is the only sound competing with the ever-wailing wind. In the bar room on the ground floor of the Hotel Surkhon, the town's lone oasis, a few young men are drinking beer and vodka chasers around the pool table. The melody, Things Can Only Get Better, booms from the audio system. It's a tenuous hope...