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...Both Lithuania's Baltic neighbors, Latvia and Estonia, were reported calm today. The official Tass news agency said the Soviet military and Estonian officials had reached agreement on the contentious issue of conscripting Estonian youths into military service...
...think the Supreme Soviet of Lithuania has put up such fences and trenches that we simply have no desire to appear there," Nauman said. "Such an action will not be taken. It's simply not needed by the military...
...region. Interior Ministry special forces seized Latvia's largest printing plant and brought publication of major newspapers in the republic to a virtual halt. Moscow officials said the raid in Riga was to recover Communist Party property, which was allegedly seized illegally by the republican government. In neighboring Lithuania, Interior Ministry troops took control of party headquarters, expelling local police units. Such bully tactics have raised questions about how repressive Gorbachev is prepared to be to hold his crumbling empire together...
Both tendencies, toward anarchy and a crackdown, gathered speed as the People's Deputies met. Five republics in effect declined to participate: Lithuania and Armenia would not send official delegations; Latvians and Estonians attended only as observers; most of the delegates from Moldova (as the Moldavian republic now calls itself) walked out in a complicated dispute over the creation of independent ethnic states within that small republic...
...sheet at Moscow's No. 14 meat-packing plant tells the story. So far this year, the factory has received only 410 tons of meat, well short of the planned 2,920 tons. The Belorussians have sent 120 tons instead of 970. Nothing has come from Kazakhstan, Latvia or Lithuania. During the past nine months, the agricultural regions around Sverdlovsk have held back one-third of their scheduled deliveries of produce and sold the products on local markets...