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The American Who Died at Chernobyl
We attended college together, were in some of the same classes, but I played basketball and he became an outstanding Soviet track and field coach. I chose freedom and America in the end, but he loved to coach children and, though given the opportunity to return to his native land, Bobby M. chose to remain…
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Voting: USA vs. USSR
I was 31-years-old before I could vote in an U.S. Presidential election. The year was 1960, and the major candidates were Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy, and having seen and heard the Vice President in Moscow during the summer of 1959, I came away very impressed with him. Nixon had…