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Title: Protesting the 'enslavement' of their countrymen
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption dated September 13, 1982 reads, "Members of the Baltic American Freedom League picket at the French consulate to protest the "enslavement" of 10,000 countrymen for the construction of the Soviet gas pipeline to Western Europe. The group's president, Tony Mazeika, said in Beverly Hills yesterday that the forced labor has been documented by the international Society for Human Rights and other groups. He said citizens from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been taken from camps near the pipeline route and forced to work."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 35 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00093117
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b092_f2_i17
CARL0005030327
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29446
Subject: Baltic American Freedom League
Diplomatic and consular service, French--California--Beverly Hills
Signs and signboards--California--Beverly Hills
Protest movements--California--Beverly Hills
Demonstrations--California--Beverly Hills
Picketing--California--Beverly Hills
Streets--California--Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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