Word: vilnius
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Following a 15-month pause, the Soviets have resumed a crackdown on critics of the regime. In three centers of human rights agitation, Moscow, Kiev and Vilnius, KGB operatives over the past two weeks have arrested four prominent dissidents and searched the homes of several others. The moves mean a further thinning of Soviet dissident ranks already greatly diminished by the deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Amalrik in the mid-1970s and the trials and imprisonment of Yuri Orlov and Anatoli Shcharansky, among others, in 1978. The movement's sole internationally known survivor is Nobel Peace Prize winner...
...Historian Antanas Terleckas, 51, seized in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is a Lithuanian nationalist and a Roman Catholic who had contributed to underground human rights journals...
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...Moscow smoking is being prohibited in the dining areas of all restaurants. Anyone caught lighting up in shops, cinemas, sports arenas or hotel lobbies in Novosibirsk risks a ten-ruble (about $13) fine. In Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, quick eateries and bars no longer permit smoking. Proclaiming itself the first "no smoking city" in the U.S.S.R., the Black Sea resort of Sochi has banned smoking in all restaurants, government offices, taxis, schools, hospitals and recreational areas. It is even illegal on beaches (except one set aside for foreigners). Says Sochi Chairman V.A. Voronkov: "I must warn smokers that henceforth they...
Symbolic Guests. While his wife was in Oslo, Sakharov was in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius trying-unsuccessfully-to appear as a character witness at the trial of a friend, Biologist Sergei Kovalev, who was charged with circulating "slanderous fabrications" including an underground Roman Catholic journal. Still awaiting trial on a similar charge is another Sakharov friend, Physicist Andrei Tverdokhlebov. In his award speech, Sakharov described the two imprisoned men as "noble defenders of justice, legality, honor and truthfulness," and invited them to be his symbolic guests in Oslo. As the Nobel ceremonies ended, Kovalev received the unusually severe sentence...