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...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...
...proverbial rock and a hard place, Gorbachev has bent to the hard-liners that have besieged him with demands for an authoritarian retrenchment. The big, bad bear is back, crushing unarmed demonstrators, establishing control, glutting the airwaves with propaganda--while 450,000 Soviet troops await orders from the Kremlin from posts throughout Eastern Europe. Suddenly, the regional power vacuum looms as a dangerous, unignorable challenge to international stability...
...later, Gorbachev told the parliament that "thousands of telegrams" had arrived at the Kremlin, along with appeals from the Committee of National Salvation, demanding presidential rule be imposed in Lithuania to halt the restoration of "a bourgeois state." He even waved a document, allegedly found by the KGB in a Lithuanian government building, which he said was a list of Communists and anti-independence leaders marked for detention...
...Soviet troops in Germany, 50,000 in Poland, 15,000 in Czechoslovakia and 20,000 in Hungary. "They might decide to 'reinforce' them," frets a senior Hungarian diplomat. Last week Warsaw anxiously asked Moscow to pull its forces out by the end of this year, but the Kremlin balked, saying the forces must remain until its troops in Germany have returned home. The Czechoslovak government ordered 20,000 troops to its border with the Soviet Union...
...down, must feel the need to reassure the West. In one offering, he appointed Alexander Bessmertnykh, a smooth professional diplomat serving as ambassador to the U.S. since last May, to succeed Shevardnadze as Foreign Minister. Bessmertnykh is considered a liberal but not one with great political influence in the Kremlin. "He'll be a soothing hand to hold," said a U.S. official, "but he probably won't have much authority." The new minister quickly stressed the continuity of Moscow's policy: "It will be preserved," he said...