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stanley cup line NewsHour.From abroad, another warning shot has been fired across the bow of the Obama administration. And it comes from a least-expected place the countries considered the most steadfast of U.S. allies in Central and Eastern Europe, 20 years after they liberated themselves from Soviet communism.A letter to President Obama received little attention in the U.S. press, but 20 one-time leaders and officials from Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel of the former Czechoslovakia, warned of a growing sense of nervousness in their region that Russia is acting like a revisionist power, that the economic crisis could propel nationalism, extremism and anti-Semitism in the area, that NATO is growing weaker. The letter even invoked the most emotional word of the Cold War Yalta that symbolizes the great powers bargaining over the heads of Central and Eastern Europeans.To discuss the letter and its political f
