Word: lithuanian
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...tragic fate of the Lithuanian seaman, Simas Kudirka, the persecution of the Jews in the Soviet Union, and the expulsion of Congressman James H. Schuer from the Soviet Union have shown thinking persons the real nature of Communism...
Like many Americans, Richard Nixon was abashed and angered last year when a Lithuanian sailor, Simas Kudirka, was forced to return to his Russian ship after he had defected to a U.S. Coast Guard cutter anchored off Martha's Vineyard. The President raged against the "bureaucratic bungling" responsible for the incident, and demanded new guidelines to ensure against a similar occurrence. The resultant recodification authorizes, among other things, "the use of force against attempts at forcible repatriation," and provides for quicker communication between the State Department and various federal, state and local agencies likely to encounter defectors. The mystery...
...considerable enthusiasm the ambivalence among the Catholic radicals concerning black nationalism and white ethnic power. While sympathetic to the demands by blacks for more control over their lives and more respect for black culture, the radical Catholic has systematically sought to destroy the traditions and culture of Polish, Italian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Irish and French Canadian Catholics. Somehow, these traditions and customs are basically "unprogressive." In place of the parish, the Catholic radical has sought small group liturgies which lend themselves more to suburban homes and college campuses than to the Italian ghetto in East Harlem...
...months after he was brutally beaten, gagged and dragged from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter by six burly Russians, little was heard of Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka. Last November Kudirka, 32, sought asylum when his ship, the Sovietskaya Litva, tied up alongside the cutter Vigilant in U.S. territorial waters off Cape Cod to discuss North Atlantic fishing rights. Ten hours after Kudirka jumped aboard the Vigilant and pleaded for sanctuary, Coast Guard headquarters in Boston ordered the Vigilant to allow Soviet sailors to take him back. The incident so outraged the country and incensed President Nixon that the Vigilant...
Kudirka suffered a harsher fate. Last week the Lithuanian Supreme Court in Vilna sentenced the sailor to ten years in a prison camp for treason...