Loote, "On a personal note, i am worried that failure of conflcit resolution between east communst regime and US can very well result in mammoth abhorrence and hence initiate the third world war. " I didn't understand what you mean by this. What conflict? What east european communist regime? If I am not mistaken (the chances are I am mistaken) there's hardly any communist regime left in eastern Europe now. Maybe I am a bit slow in realizing that the cold war has already ended, or -- I highly doubt this and I do hope you will excuse my arrogance-- you are still reading the 80s articles on the web. :-)