Word: kaliningrad
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...person in charge of this complex operation is assistant managing editor Karsten Prager. Born in 1936 in the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg (now the Soviet city of Kaliningrad), he finished secondary school in Recklinghausen, West Germany. He made his first visit to the U.S. in 1952 as an exchange student in Bronson, Mich., and later graduated from the University of Michigan. Prager joined TIME in 1965 as a correspondent in the Hong Kong bureau and has worked in Vietnam, New York City, San Francisco, Beirut and Madrid. He oversaw the Germany issue and, in a story based on conversations...
...blockade as a means of political warfare," said Landsbergis, has turned the republic into a "disaster area, a zone of economic aggression." But if Lithuanians were going to be worse off, he declared, so were their neighbors. That was a reference to the heavily militarized Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which receives its fuel supplies through Lithuanian territory...