<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> FIVE ENTRIES * self-immolation (4 cases) [1] Romas Kalanta On 14 May, in one of the squares of Kaunas, Romas Kalanta (b. 1953), who had finished secondary education and was the son of a college lecturer, died by self-immolation, under the banner ‘'Freedom for Lithuania”. Three of his friends … Continue reading Events in Lithuania, July 1972 (26.11)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> On 2 July the 9th International Congress of Gerontologists opened in Kiev. An hour before the inauguration of the congress the well-known Soviet biologist Zhores Medvedev was detained and expelled from Kiev. (He expounded a theory on the causes of ageing which has been received with much interest.) * … Continue reading Security Services’ New Functions, July 1972 (26.10)
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