NYT ON PRES. BUSH MONGOLIA; PCV BRETT BURKHART

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By RPCV (ppp-70-243-81-201.dsl.austtx.swbell.net - 70.243.81.201) on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 1:29 pm: Edit Post

New York Times
By DAVID SANGER
Published: November 22, 2005

"ULAN BATOR, Mongolia, Nov. 21 - If you are an American president in need of just a few hours of temporary political asylum - no debate about Iraq, no Chinese leaders resisting the American agenda and plenty of adulation - here is an approach: Come to the endless steppes that Ghengis Khan made famous. ..."

' ...
Anti-Americanism? "I haven't heard any," said Brett Burkhart, a Peace Corps volunteer from California who has been living in a ger - a traditional Mongolian domed tent - in a rural village. "Well, I did hear it once, but I think the guy was drunk."
... '

For full article and photo go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/international/asia/22notebook.html?emc=eta1


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