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...certain to play a pivotal role in Georgia's future is Zviad Gamsakhurdia, chairman of the Georgian Helsinki Union and a leader of the National Forum. The son of one of the republic's best-loved writers and a distinguished translator and literary scholar in his own right, Gamsakhurdia is viewed by many of his countrymen as something of a Georgian Vaclav Havel. Twice imprisoned for his nationalist views, Gamsakhurdia believes full sovereignty can be achieved only through nonviolent opposition to Soviet rule. As he explains, "It is senseless to declare independence when the Soviet army and administration are still...
...Georgian Helsinki Union has drafted an economic program that attempts to prove that the republic can survive alone. Georgia not only can feed itself but also has sufficient reserves of oil, coal and hydroelectricity to meet its energy needs. Furthermore, the republic boasts mineral deposits plus undeveloped forests, Black Sea beaches and Caucasus mountain peaks. The major drawback for Georgia, argues the document, is that "its energies are constrained by the limits of an economic system imposed from the outside." The union proposes "shock treatment" for one year to build a free market out of the republic's thriving underground...
...simply restoring the 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...
...first that Drury has received in his history as a hockey player. The Greenough resident represented the United States on the 16-, 17- and 18-year-old Select teams in high school, and played with Harvard teammate Chuckie Hughes on the U.S. Junior National team in Helsinki last December...
...external aspects of unification: the complicated issues of Germany's relationship to existing alliances, what troops may be stationed on German soil, formal recognition and security guarantees for the present borders. To seal the process, the 35- nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which came together in Helsinki in 1975, would meet at summit level late this year...