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Born in Shavly, Lithuania in 1904, the scholar emigrated to the United States in 1907. He earned his PhD from Columbia in 1931, and became a full professor there in 1952. Upon his retirement in 1973, he was awarded the Art Dealers Association of America Award for excellence from art history. He has also served as a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
President Reagan delivered a stirring address on the menace in Central America. Unfortunately, the message did not penetrate congressional partisanship. In his rebuttal, Senator Christopher Dodd alluded to Reagan's not "going with the tide of history." The Senator prefers to forget Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the East bloc countries and the surrogate Communist nations in our own hemisphere...
...Defense portfolio himself for about a month, after which it is likely to go to Arens. A tough and occasionally abrasive diplomat, Arens is also an aeronautical engineer who keeps on his embassy desk the models of planes he has helped design, including the Kfir jet fighter. Born in Lithuania in 1925, he emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of World War II. Later he served two years in the U.S. Army and studied aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1948 he emigrated to Israel, where he joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi and met Menachem Begin...
...groups. Arrests of Russian Orthodox priests are rare because the party holds the mostly docile church hierarchy firmly in its grip. Protestant believers, mainly Baptists, Pentecostalists and Adventists, who refuse to register with the state, are routinely arrested and sent to labor camps. In the Roman Catholic republic of Lithuania, where clergy arrests might rouse nationalist feelings, three priests have been killed since October 1980 under suspicious circumstances; one was apparently pushed into the path of a speeding truck. Thousands of Soviet Jews who have been refused exit visas to Israel are also a target of KGB persecution...
Klug, an acutely modest and private man (his first thought was to buy a bicycle with his Nobel money), was born in Lithuania, grew up in South Africa, and has been with the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge since 1962. His most recent work has been on the structure of nucleosomes. These are the fundamental subunits of chromosomes, the repository of the genes in the heart of cells. Klug's structural studies have broad implications, possibly even for an understanding of cancer, which occurs when the genetic machinery goes awry...