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Gordimer has lived in South Africa all her life. She was born in the small mining town of Springs in 1923. Her father was a Latvian immigrant and a jeweler, her mother a British transplant...
...communist governments. Now that communism is fading, SS veterans are going public to collect pensions from the German government. Germany's social security system has awarded $190-a-month payments (a small fortune in the Baltics) to more than 250 disabled SS veterans in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Says Latvian SS veteran and pension receiver Boris Mikhailov: "Thank you, Germany, thank you." Latvian Jews who survived the Holocaust, it should be noted, haven't got a red cent...
...make up nearly half the population, must go, he says, or Latvia's culture will perish. The young woman walks away crying. A Russian man born in Latvia and determined to stay tries to argue. "You can't blame all Russians," he says, his hands shaking. Then a Latvian woman, her body bent from age, leans into the crowd to answer. "Take your factories," she shouts, "take your tanks, take yourselves and leave...
...republics expected a disproportionate amount of attention from the West, but that has waned, and some Baltic leaders are worried that Europe and the U.S. may neglect the very countries in which economic and political reform has the best chance. "It will be a long time," says Latvian journalist Valdis Berzins, "before we live on a par with the rest of Europe...
...Balts view the issue differently: Russian migration was the means by which the Kremlin subjugated them. "Is making Latvian the official language a deprivation of human rights?" asks Viesturs Karnups, director of the Latvian Department of Citizenship. Argues Estonian journalist Tarmu Tammerk: "There is a misperception in the West. Most Russians here have come to terms with the fact that this is a foreign country...