Word: lithuanian
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DIED. Charles Bronson, 81, macho movie actor whose steely glare might have relegated him to villain roles but instead helped make him the top action star of the 1970s; in Los Angeles. Born Charles Buchinsky, the 11th of 15 siblings in a Lithuanian immigrant family, Bronson followed his father to work in the coal mines of South Pennsylvania before serving as a tail gunner in World War II. Longing to escape the deprivations of his childhood, he went to Hollywood and landed supporting roles in The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and The Dirty Dozen. In Europe, Bronson made movies...
...Nazi war machine steamrolled across Europe in 1940, thousands of Jews sought refuge in the Lithuanian capital of Kaunas, where Sugihara was Japan's vice-consul. Defying orders from Tokyo not to get involved in the refugees' plight, Sugihara wrote illegal visas for 2,000 families, enabling them to escape from the Nazis. After the war, Sugihara resigned from the Foreign Ministry, where his efforts were never acknowledged, let alone praised. He spent the rest of his life broke, hopping from job to job until he died in obscurity in 1986. Since then, a Sugihara revival has taken hold...
...Lithuanian name, BUT an American imperative: Johnny, unite us! Every Sunday afternoon from 1956 to 1972, Johnny U. laced up his black cleats to mid-calf, put his helmet on over his signature flattop (so square you could balance a playbook on it) and gathered the city of Baltimore to watch the birth of modern football. While the rest of the National Football League was scrumming its way forward a few yards at a time, Unitas threw precise, elegant passes that proved how beautiful the game could be. Unitas' greatest triumph was marching the Colts to a sudden-death victory...
...best I've ever seen. We'd love to have it at NORAD in Alaska." With its central monitoring station in Karmelava, Lithuania, 100 km west of Vilnius, BaltNet can track any aircraft in Baltic airspace. The $100 million system - funded by the U.S. and Norway - enables the mixed Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian crews to monitor planes flying over Russia's nearby, heavily militarized, enclave of Kaliningrad. "The Russians probably don't like that," shrugs Second Lieut. Rimantas Rudnickas, a Lithuanian member of the BaltNet team. That's probably an understatement. Last month, the Russian daily Vremya Novostei described...
...units moving into Moscow were in a very aggressive mood. As I heard this I was reminded of conversations a few months earlier, after the Vilnius killings. Then hospitable Airborne commanders based in Lithuania had remarked quietly over lunch that they could have "finished the job" - captured the Lithuanian parliament - in less than an hour. And the Lithuanians had been far better prepared than Yeltsin's supporters...