Word: lithuania
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...republics were going about their own democratic business. In Estonia, four anticommunist parties pushed for legislation to break up collective farms and convert them into private plots. In Latvia, parliamentarians vigorously debated emergency health care for local soldiers who helped clean up the Chernobyl disaster five years ago. In Lithuania, the Supreme Council passed a new social-welfare bill that will require raising taxes...
...rebellious Baltics, Estonia is offering, in effect, to buy its freedom for $1 billion in hard currency delivered to Moscow. Latvia plans to introduce its own currency, the lat, in the next 12 to 18 months, and has already lined up a Dutch company to print the banknotes. Lithuania has adopted a budget totally separate from the union budget. It proposes to keep all taxes and revenues collected on its territory and use the funds to administer agencies -- the Interior Ministry, the public prosecutor's office -- formerly financed by and run from Moscow...
This month, Mikhail Gorbachev has consolidated his control of the Soviet government. He has cracked down on nationalist movements in Lithuania and Latvia. He has proposed suspending a five-month-old law guaranteeing free speech, claiming that the ongoing crisis required a renewed commitment to "objectivity...
...Communist Party Central Committee plenum, Gorbachev invited the leaders of nine of the 15 Soviet republics, including Russia's maverick chief, Boris Yeltsin, to a conference at a secluded dacha in the woods outside Moscow. The six republics that are bent on immediate independence -- Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldavia, Georgia and Armenia -- were not asked...
Bloody Sunday, Jan. 13, when Soviet soldiers killed unarmed civilians in Lithuania, is often cited as proof that Gorbachev has already thrown in with the ultraconservatives. Actually, in the aftermath of the massacre, he showed his determination to preserve an equilibrium between right and left, between centrifugal and centripetal forces. If the hard-liners had really had their way in Vilnius, the night of horror would have stretched into a week, a month, perhaps a new era. Vytautas Landsbergis would now be dead, in jail or, if he were extremely lucky, back to teaching music. Instead he remains President...