VILNIUSImmediately after his inauguration as Lithuania's third head of state, President Rolandas Paksas tackled a hectic schedule that included an unprecedented trip to Afghanistan to visit troops stationed there.Paksas was inaugurated on the morning of Feb. 26 in a solemn ceremony held in the Seimas (Lithuania's parliament). In a blunt reference to outgoing President Valdas Adamkus, 76, as well as Algirdas Brazauskas, who became Lithuania's first post-independence president at age 60, Seimas Chairman Arturas Paulauskas, who presided over the inauguration ceremony, declared that "youth had ...
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