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...last Russian soldier has left Lithuania. Talks on the final departure were suspended two weeks ago amid rumors that Lithuanian negotiators were demanding up to $146 billion in reparations for their country's annexation by the Soviet Union 53 years ago. Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas has agreed to postpone the compensation discussions...
...French authorities are expected to decide in the next six months whether to try Touvier. "After 20 years of stalling in the courts," said Serge Klarsfeld, the renowned Nazi hunter, "Touvier will have to answer for his crimes in a criminal court." Antanas Gecas, 77, a onetime Lithuanian auxiliary-police battalion officer now living -- quite openly -- in Edinburgh, Scotland, is similarly awaiting a decision by the British government about whether to prosecute him for his alleged participation in his battalion's murder of 15,000 Jews in Lithuania and Belorussia...
Following the Golijov was a pair of short pieces from the time of World War I by Antheil and Cowell. Each written when its composer was 19, Antheil's "Lithuanian Night" reflected the influence of Debussy, while Cowell's quite brief "Quartet Euphometric" gave one an impression of little more than its complexly generated rhythms, based on the then-embryonic theories that would mature into his famous treatise New Musical Resources. Kronos is to be commended for resurrecting the works of these, our little-heard but worthy musical forebears...
What the world sees is not always reassuring. The Lithuanian elections serve as a warning that there is a limit to the burdens people will endure for the sake of political and economic reform. But even though hardship and turmoil have plagued their first 12 months of freedom, the Baltic states sacrificed too much in the struggle for independence to forfeit their dreams of a better life. Few Balts, after all, would trade their nation's future -- however uncertain -- for its past...
More important, they are too busy worrying about one another. Donn Nelson, a coach with the National Basketball Association's Golden State Warriors, who is assisting the Lithuanian team, says, "There are two totally different events. When the U.S. plays, it is more of an entertainment. When the other teams play, it is very exciting. Anybody can win." Petar Skansi, the thoughtful coach of the Croatian team, has a slightly different perspective. "No one wants to beat the Dream Team," he says. "It would be bad for the sport because they are clearly the best. Maybe someone will beat them...