Word: lithuanian
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...turning point, in fact, came not in August but in January of1991, when Soviet tanks moved into Vilnius in a bloody but unsuccessful effort to crush the Lithuanian independence movement. There I saw soldiers take over the country's main TV tower, waving to us as they raced to the building. I watched a tank effortlessly flatten a heavy truck that had been pulled across the road to block its path, and stared at the dead bodies of young people who a few hours earlier had been dancing in an improvised disco at the foot of the TV tower. After...
...enter, rubbing out terrorists. Signed Putin"-are among the barbs. Government officials, though, neither joke nor predict a swift victory. When Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov is asked how long the conflict will last, he answers with a question of his own. "How long did it take to eliminate the Lithuanian partisans after World War II?" The analogy is surprising-the Lithuanian "forest brothers" are now heroes in their homeland. And the answer is not encouraging for the once-upbeat generals. It took almost 10 years for a battle-hardened Soviet military to crush the partisans...
...with them from the Middle East, and that along with their barley and wheat they sowed the overwhelming dominance of their tongue throughout Europe. But as the genetic evidence now suggests, neither warriors nor farmers were able to keep their language to themselves. The Indo-European language family - from Lithuanian and Catalan to Swedish and English - spread far more successfully across Europe than the genes of its original progenitors...
...eludes me how I'm able to make things come alive," Furst says, then launches into an excited tour of the "astonishingly eccentric" range of research, random and planned, that brings such authenticity to his crepuscular world: the vanity bio of a 1920s Lithuanian, the essays of French photographer Brassai, old Paris Baedekers, and so on. He constantly makes notes of telling details: the cabaret performer with a red light bulb at his crotch that Furst once spotted in a book by Cyrus Sulzberger turns up in Kingdom...
CONVICTED. KAZYS GIM-ZAUSKAS, 93, former member of the Lithuanian security police that cooperated with the Nazis during World War II, of genocide for his role in handing over Jews to German death squads; in Vilnius,Lithuania. Gimzauskas, a former U.S. citizen who was deputy head of the Vilnius police, was not sentenced as he had been tried in absentia due to ill health. His conviction is the first time that a Lithuanian court has confirmed that its own police forces collaborated in the Final Solution, in which 90% of Lithuania's Jewish population died...