Word: lithuania
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...Minsk, capital of Belorussia, Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, 43, was named apostolic administrator (acting bishop under direct Vatican jurisdiction), thus becoming the leader of the republic's 2 million Catholics. Kondrusiewicz, a former architect who attended seminary in Lithuania, has been a priest only since...
...most dramatic church reforms have occurred in Lithuania. The Kremlin has permitted a nearly complete hierarchy, even though the Vatican refuses to recognize the U.S.S.R.'s 1940 annexation of Lithuania. In 1988 the regime restored the two top churchmen, who between them spent 53 years in internal exile. In March the Pope named three new bishops (the first since World War II) and two apostolic administrators, so that five of the six dioceses have resident leaders...
...political challenges that confronted Gorbachev included the first walkout of the session, staged by members from Lithuania, one of the country's three Baltic republics and a hotbed of nationalism. They were provoked by a plan, backed by Gorbachev, to establish a commission empowered to have the final say on constitutional disputes. Baltic deputies viewed the proposal as one more way for Moscow to impose its will on the 14 non-Russian republics. "Our electors ordered us to take care of the sovereignty of our republics," declared Romas Gudaitis, a writer and deputy from Lithuania. Gorbachev was clearly exasperated...
...Lithuania the Soviet-installed, Communist-controlled, erstwhile puppet parliament votes for independence from the Soviet Union...
...some of the gushing is getting out of hand. The most common bit of mush, endlessly repeated, whether the reporting is from China or the Soviet Union or Lithuania, is that once the genie of freedom is out of the bottle it can never be put back in. This is rank sentimentalism. The idea that somehow, if people ) have tasted freedom, the taste cannot be wrung out of them is a fallacy so large it is embarrassing just to hear it. Think only of this century. Russia tasted freedom in February 1917 and by October had lost...