Expatriate Games: From the Baltic to Lake Michigan and Back
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Fluent in five languages and an accomplished athlete, Valdas Admakus is a true renaissance man. Born in Lithuania in 1926, he joined the youth resistance movement after the Nazis invaded his country in 1939, and fought the Red Army after the war ended. In exile in America, Adamkus worked his way up through the EPA to become Midwest Regional Administrator. He eventually returned to Lithuania, and became President of the small Baltic nation.
The Rumble Before The Quake
Nubar Hovsepian, associate director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania and John Dickerson, White House correspondent for Time magazine
Expatriate Games: From The Baltic To Lake Michigan And Back
Valdas Adamkus, former president of Lithuania, on why he chose be to a member of the "coalition of the willing"
Meanwhile in Pyongyang…
Charles Armstrong, associate professor of history at Columbia Universityand author of The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Cornell University Press, 2002) on the history of North Korea and why we shouldn’t ignore them
Open Phones
Listener calls on the war with Iraq and relations with North Korea
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