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...criminal court." Antanas Gecas, 77, a onetime Lithuanian auxiliary-police battalion officer now living -- quite openly -- in Edinburgh, Scotland, is similarly awaiting a decision by the British government about whether to prosecute him for his alleged participation in his battalion's murder of 15,000 Jews in Lithuania and Belorussia...
...fear of retribution from ruling 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...
...protracted debate over local Russians has distracted Baltic leaders' attention from other issues. A majority of the 1.8 million ethnic Russians are faced with the prospect of becoming unwelcome foreigners. In Lithuania, where the alien population of 20% poses little threat, all inhabitants received instant citizenship. But in Estonia and Latvia, where non-natives make up 40% and 50% of the population respectively, the citizenship issue is highly charged...
Energy shortages have hit hardest in Lithuania, where sparring between nationalists and the conservative Democratic Labor Party has often paralyzed economic reform. Because Russia cut off fuel supplies for much of the summer, reserves in Lithuania have run alarmingly low. The country also relies on the dangerously designed Ignalina nuclear-power plant for virtually all its electrical energy; several minor accidents have sparked fears of another Chernobyl. Angered by rising prices and political gridlock, voters were ready to give another chance to Algirdas Brazauskas, the Communist Party chief who broke with Moscow in 1989 and supported independence...
...moderated nuclear time bombs are still ticking away, alarming relics of a badly designed, haplessly run nuclear-power program that none of the independent republics of the former Soviet Union can afford to shut down. The potential killers bring light, heat and power to parts of Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania, where their immediate decommissioning would create unacceptable economic disruption and even civil unrest...