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Corrections and Clarifications

* In a report "Russian President calls Bush's bluff" (Op-Ed, June 12, 2007), a sentence was: "The Gabala radar, which Russia rents from Azerbaijan, is one of the biggest in the world", while in "Putin and missile defence" (Editorial, June 13, 2007), a sentence was "... the powerful Russian-operated Qabala radar station in Azerbaijan would do the job much better." A reader wanted to know which spelling was right. Vladimir Radyuhin clarifies that Gabala and Qabala are two spelling variants of a town in Azerbaijan. Gabala is also the name of a Soviet-built radar facility near the town, which Russia rents from Azerbaijan and which President Vladimir Putin has offered to share with the U.S. Qabala or Kabalaka was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Caucasian Albania founded in the 4th Century B.C., on the territory of what today is Azerbaijan.

* In a report "How the President of India is elected" (June 14, 2007), the accompanying KBK graphic had an entry that listed V. Krishna Iyer as the main rival to the candidate R. Venkataraman in the July 13, 1987 Presidential elections. It should have been [Justice] V.R. Krishna Iyer.

* The caption of the accompanying photograph in a report "Special medical camps in border districts" (June 14, 2007) was: "A Solution: [Tamil Nadu] Health Minister K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran showing the Combusia species of fish, efficient in controlling the mosquito responsible for chikungunya ... ." A few readers point out that it should have been Gambusia. (The error was in the text as well.) The Gambusia, a species of freshwater fish, has traditionally been referred to as the mosquito fish. (According to U.S. Navy research, a pair of half-grown Gambusia can consume 5,000 mosquito larvae in 11 weeks. An adult female can devour several hundred larvae per day. The fish breeds rapidly and individual populations have been recorded expanding from 7,000 to 120,000 in five months. However, there is evidence to show that the Gambusia poses a threat to some native fish and frog species in parts of Australia, New Zealand, and North America, where it has been introduced.)

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