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Ruutel had a ready response: Estonian law. Displeased, Gorbachev called the decision "improper" and summoned the Estonian President to Moscow immediately to explain himself. When Ruutel declined, the Soviet leader turned tough. If the declaration was not rescinded, Gorbachev warned, Moscow would impose the same "regimen" there as in rebellious Lithuania. Ruutel replied that Estonians understood the consequences of their actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Estonia: Next To Break from the Pack? | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Estonia: Next To Break from the Pack? | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...sovereignty that Moscow guaranteed them "unconditionally and for all time" in 1920 -- then violated under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which led to Stalin's annexation of the Baltics. Estonian legislators want the issue of independence placed on the agenda for a Helsinki conference that Gorbachev has proposed to lay the foundation for his much touted "common European home." Legalists in Tallinn cite the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, which guaranteed the country's neutrality in exchange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops, as a model for Soviet military disengagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Estonia: Next To Break from the Pack? | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...have just been named to Mikhail Gorbachev's Presidential Council. What is this new body, and how does it fit in with existing institutions like the Politburo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Alternative Is Dictatorship | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...superpowers set an early date for a Bush-Gorbachev meeting, dispelling any question that the Lithuania crisis might derail the get-together. -- Before departing for Washington last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze spoke to TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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