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There is no longer a need for Chinese and Irish peasants to build the railroads, or Polish and Lithuanian serfs to feed the fiery machines of our industrial revolution. There are no more small parcels of land thirsting for the magic touch of Swedish and Russian farm hands...
Symbolic Guests. While his wife was in Oslo, Sakharov was in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius trying-unsuccessfully-to appear as a character witness at the trial of a friend, Biologist Sergei Kovalev, who was charged with circulating "slanderous fabrications" including an underground Roman Catholic journal. Still awaiting trial on a similar charge is another Sakharov friend, Physicist Andrei Tverdokhlebov. In his award speech, Sakharov described the two imprisoned men as "noble defenders of justice, legality, honor and truthfulness," and invited them to be his symbolic guests in Oslo. As the Nobel ceremonies ended, Kovalev received the unusually severe sentence...
...shuffles to one side and blinks at his spectator, the corners of his mouth twitch as though my bewilderment amuses him. "Did you know about the Polish-Americans?" The general manager sneaks up while the scribbler is saying that he would prefer to continue our conversation in Polish or Lithuanian. The general manager intends to lock this lunatic up, or give him the ax: he sends the usher to find an ax. The lunatic asks if this place is chauvinistic, which sounds like a reasonable question to me. But an approaching police siren shoos him off without an answer...
...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...