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...preparing the special report, McGeary called on a variety of talents at the magazine, including those of our nine-person Moscow staff. Correspondent James Carney, a native Virginian and Russian studies major at Yale, focused on two of his specialties: the nascent Baltic nations and Russia's hard-line conservatives. Reporter Ann Simmons, a British subject with a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, spent time with a working-class family to profile its desperate struggle to afford life's necessities...
...Moscow and igniting the breakup of the Soviet Union, Lithuanians voted their former communist leaders back into power. But the victory of the freshly named Democratic Labor Party does not presume a return to orthodox communism. It testifies instead to the disappointment of the great expectations in the three Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia that the end of Soviet rule would mean the beginning of a wonderful life...
...with the failing economy, Lithuanians handed their former Communist leaders a surprise victory in the first parliamentary election for the tiny Baltic nation since it won independence last year. The conquest of the newly formed Democratic Labor Party, headed by moderate ex-Communist Algirdas Brazauskas, dealt a bitter blow to the nationalist Sajudis party, which had heroically spearheaded Lithuania's break with Moscow and hastily set off on a path of economic reform. Brazauskas has promised to slow the pace of change and improve relations with Russia...
...fire-blackened walls of Tbilisi's Government House are a grim reminder of the street battle last December that toppled Gamsakhurdia, Georgia's first popularly elected President. The fervently patriotic Georgians had been quick to follow the lead of the Baltic republics in breaking away from Moscow early in 1990, but the majority admit they were duped by the charismatic nationalist, whose dictatorial policies turned democratic forces against him. * Gamsakhurdia instituted no economic reforms and left the state bureaucracy in a shambles. His worst legacy, though, was to set his compatriots on a collision course with ethnic minorities who felt...
...Ethnic cleansing," it appears, plagues not just the Balkans but the Baltic as well. In a hail of rocks and Molotov cocktails, skinheads and neo-Nazis in the eastern German port of Rostock tried to storm an apartment block housing 200 asylum-seeking Romanian Gypsies, beginning an ugly battle that would last all week. After officials moved the Gypsies, the hooligans trapped 100 Vietnamese guest workers in a neighboring building and set it ablaze. By luck alone, none of the inhabitants was seriously hurt...