RIGASandra Kalniete was nothing if not passionate.In a lengthy article in the country's biggest daily newspaper, Latvia's foreign minister urged her countrymen to throw their support behind the United States - their chief defender during the dark days of Soviet occupation - as it prepares for war with Iraq. Saddam, she said, was a modern-day Stalin, and democracies such as Latvia, a future member of NATO, had a duty to oppose him. (See Page 19.)Though a former ambassador to France, she displayed not a trace of the country's fiery anti-Americanism that, although it goes back decades, has man...
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