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Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues of the journal. Comment on the article "Milosevic's Willing Executioners," by Stacy Sullivan, published in the May 10, 1999 issue of the journal; Comment on the 1937 Cubrilovic memorandum on the need to expel Albanians from Kosovo, Serbia; Comment on the article "A Final Solution," by Ryan Lizza.

Relates the experiences of an Eastern European newcomer in the U.S. Components of American reality; Opportunities in the U.S.; Partial listing of things American that the Eastern European can never come to terms with; Cultural differences between Eastern Europe and the U.S.; Differences in ethnic language.

Examines the roots of the civil war in Bosnia. Views on Bosnians' passion, thirst for justice, faithfulness and strength of character; Observation that hatred was endemic to Bosnia; Details of the conflict between the Sunni Muslims, Eastern Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats; Subordination of Muslim identity to Serbian and Croatian nationalism.

Offers a look at ethnic conflict in Kosovo between Albanians and Serbs. Role of peacekeeping forces in Kosovo; Report that Serbs have left Kosovo because of harassment and violence from Albanians; Discrimination of Albanians against Serbs; History of ethnic tensions in Kosovo; Refusal of the European Union to recognize Albanian independence in 1991; Success of the international interventions in Macedonia.

This article looks at the fear being raised in Great Britain over the flood of eastern European immigrants seeking political asylum there.Then there was the newspaper, Sun story that claimed that Eastern European immigrants, entering Britain to seek political asylum, were stealing the swans that famously populate London's parks, then killing and barbecuing them. Britain is in the grip of a full-fledged panic: In polls, a perceived tide of asylum-seekers regularly competes with Iraq, education, and health care as the issue troubling Britons the most. As in most panics, the facts here hardly justify the fear.

Calls for the resolution of resettlement problem experienced by Bosnian refugees by increasing the number of admission in the U.S. under the 1980 Refugee Act and changing the criteria used by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. Number of refugees taken by European countries with less space than the U.S.; Political reason for the lower refugee admission in the U.S.; Problem with resettling Bosnians back to their homes.

Reports that Serbs, headed by Radovan Karadzic, now control 70 percent of the former republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Details of the displacement of as many as two million Bosnians; Question on what to do with the refugees; Information on the ambivalent response of Europe to the refugee crisis; Need to create militarily patrolled safe havens for the Bosnians inside Bosnia.

Focuses on the fears and concerns raised by Eastern Europeans about U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. Possible impact of the war on traders in Eastern Europe; Views of the Poles on the U.S. bombing of Hanoi at the end of 1966; Concern about U.S. objectives in relation to the war; Bad experiences of East Europeans who tried arranging trade deals with U.S. companies.

Deals with the inability of the Russians to do something with the bombing and political violence created by the U.S. in Vietnam. Proof of the unprecedented drop of Soviet prestige in Eastern Europe; Event of Soviet humiliation that drives home to the East European Communist leaders the apparent helplessness of Russia; Reactions of Communist leaders to the weakness of Russia to cripple the attack of the U.S. on Vietnam.