Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Nicolae Ceausescu in Bucharest and aging Josip Broz Tito, now 82, in Belgrade, as well as with Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. As a small token of the Soviet party chiefs hopes for a happy Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford later this month, the Russians last week allowed Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka, 44, and his family to fly to the U.S. Kudirka attracted world attention four years ago when he leaped aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter from a Russian fishing trawler in American coastal waters, seeking political asylum. He was beaten and dragged back aboard the trawler while...
Once inside the hall, a world of international sights and sounds unfolds. 26 nationality and ethnic groups will perform on a giant stage throughout the five days. Included are Armenian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slavic, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian folk dance troupes from Boston, Cambridge and surrounding communities...
...Mine is the typical American story," says Shapiro. Son of Lithuanian immigrants, he worked in his family's small cleaning plant in Minneapolis, used loans to go through the University of Minnesota Law School ('41). He joined the Office of Price Administration in World War II, worked side by side with another lawyer, Richard Nixon. Recalls Shapiro: "He was a pleasant guy who got along with people...
...city's southwest side, the residents of the neat one-story bungalows that crowd the area long ago learned how to read modulations in the engine noises of approaching aircraft. One afternoon last week, as they waited for their children to return home from school, the largely Polish, Lithuanian and Italian inhabitants of the Chicago Lawn area heard a sound they instantly mistrusted. Recalled Mrs. Pat Kjos: "I was in the basement, and I heard a plane go over. I just knew it was in trouble. It was much too loud. Then all of a sudden the whole house...
...Your article about Lithuania [July 31] is truly a splendid portrayal of the struggle being carried on by the Lithuanian people against the tyrannous oppression imposed on them by Communist Russia...