Word: baltic
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...windswept Baltic inlet only a few miles from Helsinki sits a starkly modern building, an angular Finnish masterpiece in white pine and fieldstone, which houses the student union of Helsinki's Technical University. There, around a hollow six-sided table, the representatives of 32 European countries plus the U.S. and Canada took their places last week to begin talks that may lead to the most significant conference in Europe's postwar history...
...then the uprising was crushed, and the second sub entered Sogne Fjord to give help. The defeated mutineers, said Albania's Radio Tirana in a 16-minute broadcast that cited Moscow sources, were transferred to the second sub, and both vessels left the fjord, heading for the Baltic. The broadcast suggested that the uprising posed special danger to European security because of the nuclear arms aboard...
...Congress passed a resolution to urge the President of the United States to bring the force of world opinion at the UN on behalf of the restoration of the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. This resolution also condemns the genocide committed by Soviet Russia in the Baltic States as follows...
...government of the Soviet Union, through a program of deportations and resettlement of peoples, continues in its efforts to change the ethnic character of the population in the Baltic States...
...Corcoran, and the result is a heterogeneous pile of modern kitsch, late czarist elegance and early barbaric splendor, mingled with the beautifully wrought and unpretentious products of pre-Revolutionary folk artists. The less said about official post-Revolutionary folk art the better: it is characterized (except for some fine Baltic textiles) by an earnest garishness -in short, it is no better than the output of any other organized handicraft industry, and every bit as twee...