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...general growled his warning over the telephone. As elite Soviet paratroopers were ordered into the Baltic republics early last week, Fyodor Kuzmin, the regional commander, rang up the presidents of secessionist Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with a stony message. If your people obstruct the mission to round up draft dodgers, he said, the troops will shoot. Four days later, in an atmosphere of mounting confrontation, General Kuzmin kept his word...
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R.--The Kremlin promised today not to attack the Lithuanian parliament but wary Baltic residents said they feared a further crackdown while the world watches the Persian Gulf...
...Paris, the European Community threatened to cut off all Soviet aid, including emergency food supplies, if Moscow continues repressing the Baltic republics...
Both Lithuania's Baltic neighbors, Latvia and Estonia, were reported calm today. The official Tass news agency said the Soviet military and Estonian officials had reached agreement on the contentious issue of conscripting Estonian youths into military service...
...another development, Soviet representatives rejected a proposal supported by the United States, Canada and other European countries for an international conference on the Baltic crackdown...