Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frustrated by Orthodoxy's largest branch, the Church of Russia, which rivals the Ecumenical Patriarchate's authority and is inhibited in any pursuit of Christian unity by the wishes of the Soviet state. To the Kremlin, Catholicism is an alien influence that stirs up Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationalism and threatens Soviet power...
...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...
...shows little real sign of any change. It is generally assumed that Poland refuses to allow Catholic radio and TV broadcasts partly because the Soviets do not want to encourage believers on their side of the border, especially in Lithuania. Tied to the Poles by culture and history, the Lithuanians are particularly oppressed and particularly resentful. It is an act of courage there even to attend Mass. Lithuanian clergy were reportedly forbidden to go to Poland during the Pope's visit. All six dioceses in the country, which was appropriated by the Soviets in 1940, are led by temporary administrators...
...Poles, along with other East bloc Catholics, turning out to see John Paul, a certain political nervousness is understandable. The deep feeling that the accession of Wojtyla to the papacy stirred in East European Catholics can hardly be overestimated. "In future," as the underground Chronicle of the beleaguered Lithuanian Catholic Church put it, "we shall not feel abandoned to the will of the atheists in the Kremlin...
DIED. Barbara Mutton, 66, oft-wed Woolworth heiress whose personal misfortunes earned her the nickname "poor little rich girl"; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Her seven husbands included Laotian, Lithuanian and Russian princes, a Prussian count and Actor Cary Grant. A granddaughter of the founder of the 5 and 10? store chain. Hutton inherited some $25 million at age twelve, but was long plagued by illnesses that ranged from kidney disease to cataracts, and spent her last years a recluse, often bedridden and weighing only...