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During the debate, Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene warned that relief must be found from the economic sanctions imposed in April by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev: "We have to do something. We have to take a risk." The resolution set a time limit and stipulated that it could be extended or terminated only by the Lithuanians. These conditions finally brought the more cautious President Vytautas Landsbergis on board and made a lifting of the blockade possible...
Last week Gorbachev spent considerable time trying to head off the election of his most influential critic, former Politburo member Boris Yeltsin, as president of the Russian federation. He met with Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene for nearly two hours in an attempt to persuade her that, at a minimum, her republic must suspend its two-month-old declaration of independence. It may be a measure of his domestic difficulties that Gorbachev's most solid accomplishment came in foreign affairs. After four days of talks between U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Moscow...
While the passion for independence still burns high, some sober-minded Lithuanians are beginning to wonder if they might have been too hasty. Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene seemed to suggest that the deliberately vague terms of the Kohl-Mitterrand letter might serve as a vehicle for compromise. But the main stumbling block remains: what to do about the March 11 declaration of independence. Lithuanians are interpreting the proposed suspension to refer only to legislation passed after March 11, while Moscow reads it to include suspension of the declaration itself. The no-retreat camp still has the upper hand in Vilnius...
...Lithuanian government let the holiday weekend pass before discussing a response. Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene asked Moscow for an urgent meeting to resolve the dispute. There was no answer. The Lithuanian parliament also showed willingness to compromise on the issues bothering Moscow -- short of independence -- but warned Lithuanians to be prepared for "spiritual endurance and strict economy on all consumption." While Vilnius residents paused to buy daffodils and listen to chanting Hare Krishna disciples in a park near Communist Party headquarters, they seemed unconcerned about a long siege...
...could not help feeling a twinge of pity as Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene and her entourage trudged through Oslo looking for help last week. The Norwegians offered their guests sympathy and goodwill, but oil and gas were another matter. Statoil, Norway's state-owned oil company, said sure, it would sell to Lithuania -- but for U.S. dollars, of which Lithuania has very...