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...Moscow might have to move, if only to sti fle rumblings of discontent within its own borders. Estonian emigres in Stockholm report that there have been nationalist demonstrations at schools in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, as well as a strike at a tractor factory in the city of Tartu. Students in Tartu held protest rallies, demanding an end to the 40-year-old So viet occupation of their country. Walesa is characteristically defiant about the possibility of Soviet intervention. "Tanks can guard us," he says, "but they cannot make us work...
...Alexander Daniel, the 20-year-old son of Yuli, was denied admission to Tartu University in Estonia, although he had been accepted earlier and had graduated at the top of his high school class. Recently he was fired from a menial job in the computer center of the Moscow Engineering Institute. At a meeting called to discuss young Daniel's case, the rector of the institute, Nikolai Strel-huk, expressed particular dissatisfaction about the number of Jews, like Daniel, who had been hired at the institute...
Palate or Patrie? But world influence could wait, decided De Gaulle, and he said non as only he can. He dispatched a sort of force de flap - the fast, 2,750-ton destroyer escort Tartu-to watch over the fishing boats. An "act of hostility." cried Brazilian Foreign Minister Hermes Lima. "The attitude of France is inadmissible, and our government will not retreat. The lobster will not be caught...
...matter how many champagne and caviar parties a couple's friends may throw afterward, this sort of ceremony is no longer enough to satisfy the romantic yearnings of the Khrushchev generation. In the Estonian university town of Tartu, Registrar lime Toots had lately made quite a name for herself by providing a piano and a mixed chorus to sing Say It with Flowers to Me. Couples from all over Estonia flock to lime Toots, particularly on those great occasions Russians deem especially propitious for weddings, May Day and the Nov. 7 anniversary of the Communist Revolution...
Murder. Another doctor, Edmund Leetaru, testified that after the Wehrmacht pushed the Russians back, he served on a commission that investigated Communist executions in Estonia, where the late Andrei Zhdanov was the Red overlord. The commission found some 200 corpses buried in the prison yard in the city of Tartu. Most had been shot in the back of the neck. But "several didn't have any bullet holes at all; their heads had been crushed...