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...more than a dozen foreign leaders, many of them in Latin America. They were polite, in some cases even supportive, but in virtually all cases cautionary. Here was the U.S. occupying a neighboring country just when the Soviet Union finally seemed to be getting out of that business. The Kremlin did some remonstrating of its own. At their Malta meeting, Mikhail Gorbachev had complained to Bush about the U.S.'s military muscle flexing during the attempted coup in the Philippines; now here was Uncle Sam in Panama, again seeming to relegitimize the use of force...
ARMENIA. Legislators amended the republic's constitution to give the regional legislature primacy over its national counterpart, enabling Armenia to veto national laws that conflict with its interests. The parliament then defied the Kremlin by voting to include in its budget the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, geographically nestled in the republic of Azerbaijan...
...maneuver was merely a dress rehearsal for the day when the republic would try to secede from the nation. In local elections on Feb. 24, Lithuanians are expected to elect a republican parliament dominated by uncompromising nationalists. It was a challenge that could not be solved with traditional Kremlin politics. Stalling for time, Gorbachev announced that there should be a "fact-finding mission" to Lithuania...
...from the center outward to the republics -- without unhinging his entire reform program or, worse still, losing territory. Should Gorbachev accede to Lithuania's demand for secession, he knows, he will be pressed for comparable concessions from Estonia and Latvia. And once the secession fever infects the Baltics, the Kremlin fears, what is to stop it from spreading to the other republics? Last week Gorbachev's Politburo ally, Alexander Yakovlev, dubbed this unnerving prospect "the domino effect...
...seceding without the entire union unraveling. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are relatively recent additions to the union. Furthermore, unlike many of the other republics, the Baltics were independent at the time of their incorporation. There is, therefore, a historical basis for treating them as a special case. Perhaps the Kremlin aims to do just that. Last week Soviet government spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov went so far as to speak of establishing a "mechanism for divorce" to deal with the Lithuanian situation...