Reporter’s NotebookBy Jim Maceda, NBC News Correspondent
ELEKTROSTAL, Russia – Electric Steel – “Elektrostal” in Russian – is the epitome of a “one-company town” whose citizens traditionally either worked at, or depended on, the heavy machine factory that bears the town’s name. About an hour’s drive from Moscow, Electric Steel became, starting in the 1930’s, [...]
Archive for February 27th, 2009
By NBC News’ Karim Hilmi
BAGHDAD – With President Barack Obama’s announcement on Friday that the U.S. will withdraw its combat forces from Iraq by late summer of 2010, some Iraqis say they fear that such a move could lead to a resurgence of violence.
“Terrorists are just waiting for the Americans to leave the country in order to [...]
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