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...reason the Kremlin boss keeps boarding his customized Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 and winging off to foreign parts is that he has serious, apparently growing troubles at home. In recent weeks there have been bloody riots in the Caucasus and protests along the Baltic. At a special session of the Supreme Soviet, a few deputies to the traditionally rubber-stamp parliament took glasnost and democratization seriously enough to vote against some of Gorbachev's reforms. These difficulties give Gorbachev two reasons to keep hitting the diplomatic high road: he must reduce international tensions if he / is to devote more resources...
Disorder in the south was not all Gorbachev had to contend with last week. Fearing that suggested amendments to the Soviet constitution will once again concentrate power in Moscow, legislators in Estonia, one of the three Baltic republics, rejected the proposals two weeks ago and called for parity in the relationship between Estonia and the central government. Though stopping short of Estonia's provocative claim to legal sovereignty, Lithuania, Latvia and Georgia announced that they too would fight some of the proposed constitutional amendments...
...response to Popular Front appeals, some local planners are touting a scheme to turn the Baltic States into "self-financing" republics, fiscally independent of Moscow and empowered to manage their natural resources. Language is another concern: last month the Estonian supreme soviet issued a draft law declaring Estonian the official language of the republic. Plans are also being discussed to introduce a form of Estonian citizenship as a step toward controlling immigration...
...together forever by great Russia . . ." At 6 a.m. each day, the opening lines of the Soviet state anthem ring out in Russian from radios across the vast country. They are heard by reindeer-herding Chukchi tribesmen in Siberia, Buryat farmers near the Mongolian border and Estonian fishermen by the Baltic Sea. The words project an illusion of homogeneity that Moscow finds increasingly difficult to maintain...
WORLD: Nationalist movements in the Baltic republics and Armenia pose dramatic challenges for the Soviet Union...