Yanukovych s Party of the Regions has been leading in opinion polls for months, and the world should remember that Yushchenko s ultimate triumph over him in 2004 was by a whisker, not a landslide. Moreover, Yushchenko used his year in power mostly to disappoint those whose votes he now needs.

Yanukovich s Party of the Regions has been leading in opinion polls for months, and the world should remember that Yushchenko s ultimate triumph over him in 2004 was by a whisker, not a landslide. Moreover, Yushchenko used his year in power mostly to disappoint those whose votes he now needs.

Just as Mao Zedong started his invasion of Tibet while the world was preoccupied with the Korean War, so he chose a perfect time to invade India, as recommended by the ancient strategist Sun Tzu. The attack coincided with a major international crisis that brought the United States and the Soviet Union within a whisker of nuclear war over the stealthy deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba.