Word: lithuania
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Among the teams planning to compete are men's and women's eights from the Republic of Lithuania. The Lithuanians formally competed for the USSR in the Olympics and have already won several regattas in the United States...
...said the document we had signed would give us a free hand toward Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bessarabia and Finland. The fate of those countries would be up to us. Germany would be out of the picture...
...past in many ways personifies the abiding Polish dilemma born of geography and the hard knocks of history. Jaruzelski was 16 when Nazi Germany attacked Poland in 1939, and he recalls vividly how, on a clear September day 51 years ago, he and his family crossed into Lithuania as refugees. "I thought then that the heavens had fallen in on me," Jaruzelski recalls. "We were convinced that we would return home soon, that an English-French offensive would enable the Polish army to go on fighting against the Germans. It was not to happen...
...months, illegal military units like Vasilyan's have been forming all across the restive Soviet republics, from Central Asia to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In Armenia, nationalist forces clashed with Soviet troops deployed to prevent ethnic fights with neighboring Azerbaijanis, resulting in the deaths of two officers in the Soviet army, 30 soldiers from the Armenian side and three civilians. Several weeks ago, violent battles erupted between local militias and the army in the Central Asian republic of Kirghizia, where Soviet soldiers are trying to end fighting between ethnic Uzbeks and Kirghiz...
...decree is heeded, however -- and that is a big if -- Gorbachev will still face a major problem: the rot that has infected the 4.5 million- strong Soviet armed forces. It has spread beyond nationalist resentment into the very nature and role of the army itself. Estonia and Lithuania have passed legislation allowing draft-age boys to opt out of military service, and Georgia and Russia may soon follow suit. In this year's spring call-up, the number of outright draft dodgers has grown to an estimated 20,000. In Armenia a mere 7% of draftable boys bothered to answer...