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...major question: since the 1922 constitution setting up the Soviet Union * would be dissolved, would republics be able to secede merely by refusing to sign the new treaty? Grigori Revenko, a member of Gorbachev's current Presidential Council, has suggested that the rebellious Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, at least, would not be allowed to go as easily as that; they would still have to negotiate with Moscow over property issues. And they might not be the only ones. Akaky Asatiani, a leader of the Georgian parliament, said flatly last week that Georgia "will not sign the federal...
...Lithuania's Prunskiene, the challenge is far greater. Working alongside a President she outspokenly disagrees with, she has been the leader in seeking a negotiated agreement with Moscow to give Lithuania its independence. An economist for much of her 47 years, Prunskiene has become Lithuania's voice of reason. She made the short leap from economics to politics two years ago when she helped found Sajudis, the independence movement. "I was very unhappy seeing what should be done but was not done," she says. From the beginning she has reached out for Western expertise and advice...
...methods have earned her a working relationship with Gorbachev, but not with Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's fiery President. While he represents the mystic Lithuanian dreams, she concentrates on practicalities. The two have disagreed strongly about how to deal with Moscow, and many emotional Lithuanians share with Landsbergis his dismay at her conciliatory moves. Prunskiene dismisses the criticism as irrelevant: "As a leader I do not have to follow what I believe is the wrong way just to show unity...
Jack Kemp Housing and Urban Development. The quarterback turned Congressman turned Cabinet member behaves like a grumpy Supreme Court Justice, squawking about Bush's policy on China and Lithuania. Supply-sider Kemp wants to replace Trade Representative Carla Hills, but that's unlikely...
Western intervention in the collapse of the Soviet Union could also be disastrous, since it could drag the U.S. and its allies into shooting wars between Moscow and rebellious nationalist groups. Partly for that reason, Western countries have chosen to stand aside from Soviet internal upheavals. When Moscow squeezed Lithuania earlier this year, the U.S. and its European partners held back -- and held their breath. In principle they all support self-determination for the Lithuanians and the other non-Russians. But none is prepared to risk the bones of a single NATO infantryman...