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...wake of the murders, Lithuanians staged a three-day demonstration, pitching tents in a field next to the Vilnius OMON base and demanding that the unit either disband or leave the republic. Dressed in fatigues and cradling automatic weapons, the Black Berets mocked the protesters. One of their own signs near the barbed wire separating the demonstration site from the OMON base read, THE SOVIET ARMY AND OMON: THE LAST DEFENDERS OF NATIONAL MINORITIES IN LITHUANIA...
...Woodstock, N.Y., became the symbol of the Age of Aquarius when it lent its name to a three-day love-in and rock concert featuring, among others, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Arlo Guthrie. Though the festival was ultimately held 50 miles away, Flower Power devotees and New York City weekenders have since flocked to the once quiet community. But as Woodstock (pop. 6,800) has grown, it has run into some of the fiscal problems facing other towns and cities. Among them: paying off an $8.5 million debt to the local sewer district...
...Public Broadcasting Service has quietly embraced Fishkin's idea and plans to televise six to eight hours of excerpts of the exercise during the weekend of Jan. 17-19, a month before the 1992 campaign formally begins with the Iowa caucuses. Named the National Issues Convention, the three-day, $3.5 million conclave in Austin holds the potential to shape the late-starting, who's-running-anyway Democratic race and provide a forum for the Bush Administration to field-test its campaign themes. As Edward Fouhy, executive producer of the PBS broadcast, puts it, "This is the only thing that holds...
...MAGAZINE and its parent company, Times Mirror, invited Sununu to ski and speak at its three-day gathering in Aspen, Colo., in December 1990. As usual, Sununu classified this trip as official business and flew out on an Air Force jet. Ski magazine officials, however, say they paid for lodging, meals and ski passes for Sununu and his wife. As reported by TIME last week, Sununu's office billed a ski-industry lobbying group, the American Ski Federation, $802 for Nancy Sununu's airfare. A Sununu aide later explained that the payments by Ski and the Ski Federation were "billing...
This week in Atlanta, Vestal will preside as thousands of dissident Baptists plot resistance to the fundamentalist trend. Chapman, for one, thinks the three-day conclave will launch something akin to a schism. At the same time, the fundamentalist leader is confident that few of the 38,000 S.B.C. congregations will join any eventual breakaway...