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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech last week, was told: "You're going to be under pressure again, if you aren't already, to do something to rescue the party." Kennedy made a face: no way. By some reports, McGovern was mulling a new list of four men-each, like Eagleton, a Roman Catholic-one of whom might be tapped for the vice presidency instead...
...trouble began in May, when Roman Kalanta, 19, a member of the Young Communist League, sat down in a park in Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city, and set fire to a gallon of gasoline he had poured on himself. On the day of Kalanta's burial, thousands of young mourners flooded the streets of Kaunas shouting "Freedom for Lithuania!" A young girl lay down in the street and spread her arms in the form of a cross. When the local police manhandled her, the rioting started. Hundreds counterattacked with fists, sticks and stones. When the police proved...
Brutal Annexation. These unprecedented protests spring from the deep-seated patriotism of the 3,000,000 Lithuanians, most of whom are Roman Catholics. Their anti-Russian feelings are longstanding; the country suffered 120 years of oppression under the czars, and after 22 years of independence was brutally annexed by the U.S.S.R. in 1940. Emboldened by the example of Russia's own dissidents, Lithuanians have become increasingly vocal in their protests against Soviet religious and ethnic repression. No fewer than 17,000 Lithuanians signed an open letter that was sent to the United Nations this year deploring the deportation...
...anybody can untangle Italian government at this point, it would appear to be Andreotti. He is both experienced and so cool and detached in his political dealings that he is said to have sangue ghiaccio (icy blood). Andreotti is Italy's first Roman-born Premier since unification. He was only a fledgling lawyer-journalist when he became a wartime protege of Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's great postwar Premier. De Gasperi was a Vatican librarian hiding from the Fascists when Andreotti wandered in one day in 1941 to begin research on papal naval history.* After the war Andreotti...
Walter Carlos: Sonic Seasonings (Columbia, 2 LPs, $6.98). When the Roman philosopher Seneca said, "All art is but imitation of nature," he didn't know the half of it. Today's electronic composer no longer bothers to imitate nature the way Vivaldi did in The Four Seasons. Tape recorder in hand, he simply camps at the seashore or in a rain forest, and lets Mother Nature herself compose an accelerando of breaking waves or a pizzicato polka of storm effects. Then he adds electronic sounds-whirrr, ping, eeeeeee, r-r-r-roar-and voila...