Word: vilna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transmitters were on the frequency of the railway switching station of this important industrial center. On the inland Sea of Azov, riverboat skippers complain that they cannot hear routing orders because of interference by Elvis Presley tapes. Judged even more hazardous, however, were the broadcasts of an operator in Vilna, Lithuania, who has been sentenced to three years in prison for "anti-Soviet agitation." His crime: retransmitting Western newscasts taped from a short-wave receiver...
...Dreyfus Affair forms the historical background for Dreyfus in Rehearsal, a new play previewing in Boston prior to a Broadway debut later this month. The script, adopted from the French by Director Garson Kanin, is the story of a play-within-a-play. The scene is Vilna, Poland, 1931. An amateur Jewish theatrical group is rehearsing an original play by its director about the Dreyfus incident...
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...