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...German marks, which is worth about $330 in buying power and is almost equal to his Stasi pay. (A few former agents have even found employment as policemen in West Germany.) But Dieter has lost a packet of coveted perks, among them paid vacations at choice resorts along the Baltic coast. Because the Stasis were in a special category set apart from the typical East German civil servant, he received no unemployment...
...They want us to show responsiveness to what's going on, but they are not necessarily saying 'Get smaller.' " Says Oklahoma Congressman Dave McCurdy of the House Intelligence Committee: "What we have to ask is whether the Soviet analyst in the CIA who's been counting submarines in the Baltic Sea is the same person who should be analyzing political stability in Estonia or Latvia...
...message was hard for Moscow to miss. A sign in Russian on a pillar of the government offices read, OCCUPIERS, GO HOME! Another placard urged SOLIDARITY WITH THE LITHUANIAN PEOPLE. Representatives from the restive Baltic republics were on hand to wave their national banners alongside the flag of the short-lived Georgian Republic...
...from Moscow. Addressing the breakaway government, Mikhail Gorbachev charged the Lithuanians with "anticonstitutional actions." Rescind those decisions "within the next two days," he demanded, or the shipment of supplies to Lithuania would be stopped. Gorbachev was seemingly threatening to cut off oil, natural gas and coal supplies to the Baltic republic, which depends on the Soviet Union for most of its energy needs...
...gauntlet was thrown down in another Baltic rebellion against the Soviets that could further complicate superpower relations. Even as Eduard Shevardnadze and the Bush Administration were trying to muffle Lithuania's impact in Washington, Estonia was setting off on a similar course of defiance. As Ruutel told a group of visiting TIME editors in Tallinn last week: "We understand the concern abroad that we are, perhaps, too bold in our demands and are undermining Gorbachev's position. But the interests of the superpowers should not be advanced at the expense of small nations...