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...will preside as thousands of dissident Baptists plot resistance to the fundamentalist trend. Chapman, for one, thinks the three-day conclave will launch something akin to a schism. At the same time, the fundamentalist leader is confident that few of the 38,000 S.B.C. congregations will join any eventual breakaway...
During the first quarter, Brown smothered the Crimson offense, while unleashing a scoring flurry of its own. An Oliver Marti breakaway goal 2:13 into the game ignited the Bears, who tallied five more goals in the next 12 minutes to take a massive 6-0 lead...
...Gorbachev brought last week's confrontation in the capital on himself. Communists inside the Russian republic's parliament had called a special session to mount a no-confidence vote against Yeltsin. Many feel that the maverick Russian should be dismissed for demanding Gorbachev's resignation, for supporting the breakaway Baltic republics and for such other sins as suggesting a separate Russian army...
...coming to symbolize the failure of Soviet reform. Latvians and Lithuanians, along with appalled observers inside and outside the U.S.S.R., are convinced that the crisis between Moscow and the republics is not over so long as troops range the cities and independence-minded legislatures hide behind barricades. The breakaway republics are under no illusion that they can defeat the Kremlin, but they still desperately hope that they can negotiate a peaceful solution...
...denial seemed borne out by Gorbachev's ultimatum to Lithuania on Thursday. What he called the public "demand" for Moscow to take over in the Baltics actually referred to ethnic Russian demonstrations in Vilnius and Riga orchestrated by Interfront, the anti- independence league of non-Baltic workers in the breakaway republics. Massed outside the parliament building in Vilnius on Tuesday, a wave of these workers broke down the front door before local national guardsmen pushed back the assault with fire hoses. The next day the agitators returned to shout at some 12,000 Lithuanian counterdemonstrators summoned by President Landsbergis...