Word: lithuania
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...convince the Senate than the Europeans of the virtue of missile defense. And it took extensive lobbying by the Clinton Administration to get the Senate (then under Republican control) to welcome Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into NATO. Persuading a Democratic Senate to extend an invitation to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the face of Russian opposition won't be easy...
...Paul Quinn-Judge: No. And if public opinion polls are to be believed, it's one of those rare occasions when Russian popular feeling agrees entirely with the rhetoric of the Kremlin. The Russians have never reconciled themselve to losing the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which hope to join NATO), even though they only took them in 1941 under extremely brutal circumstances - although they had been, unhappily, part of the Russian empire for a couple of hundred years. It's a kind of vestigial nostalgia for empire of the type you saw in Britain 30 years...
CONVICTED. KAZYS GIM-ZAUSKAS, 93, former member of the Lithuanian security police that cooperated with the Nazis during World War II, of genocide for his role in handing over Jews to German death squads; in Vilnius,Lithuania. Gimzauskas, a former U.S. citizen who was deputy head of the Vilnius police, was not sentenced as he had been tried in absentia due to ill health. His conviction is the first time that a Lithuanian court has confirmed that its own police forces collaborated in the Final Solution, in which 90% of Lithuania's Jewish population died...
These immigrants are trapped because some countries, unlike the United States, do not automatically grant citizenship and the right of return upon birth. Kestutis Zadvydas was born in a displaced persons camp in U.S.-occupied Germany shortly after World War II, to parents from a region contested by Lithuania and Russia. Having finished a prison term for a narcotics offense and now scheduled for deportation, he has nowhere to go: Germany, which recognizes citizenship by blood rather than territory, refuses to acknowledge him as a citizen, and Lithuania has demanded documentation of his parents' residence that can no longer...
There was once a time when the U.S. men's basketball team was so dominant that no one thought the squad would ever lose as long as NBA talent was allowed to participate. It's true no more. America manages to beat Lithuania by nine points in the preliminary round, but has to hold off for a two-point victory in the semifinals in a rematch...