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...Toughlove Summit. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater used the name to stress that Bush would temper his admiration for Gorbachev's goals with stern talk on Lithuania and Germany...
...that befell him between Monday and Friday would have been a severe test of his ingenuity and stamina. His attempt to revive a stagnant economy seemed only to be provoking fresh resistance from populace and parliament alike. Just as the war of nerves between the Kremlin and secessionists in Lithuania entered a new and delicate phase, Mikhail Gorbachev suddenly faced a challenge to his power much closer to home. His only real rival in the turbulent arena of Soviet politics, the maverick former Politburo member Boris Yeltsin, mounted an impressive campaign to become the president of the country's largest...
...Lithuania quickly shifted toward flexibility. Seizing on an idea floated last month by French President Francois Mitterrand and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Vilnius offered, in return for negotiations, to suspend all legislation it had passed since declaring independence. Prime Minister Prunskiene flew to Moscow to present the offer to Gorbachev. While she was still in the air, Gorbachev called the Lithuanian mission asking to see her as soon as she arrived. This was a gesture of compromise on his part, since he had insisted no talks were possible until the Lithuanians canceled their declaration of independence...
After her session with Gorbachev, Prunskiene said she felt that "significant steps toward agreement" had been taken. But by the next day it was clear the basic issue had still not been resolved. TASS observed that Lithuania had failed to repeal the act of independence. Soviet officials later added that at least a "suspension" of the declaration was required. Baker tried to keep the pressure on by urging Prunskiene to consider suspending the independence declaration as a way to open a dialogue...
Eastern Europe's majestic waterways, fouled by sewage, toxic chemicals and acid rain, are in no better shape. Fish catches in the Baltic Sea, long a dumping ground for industrial wastes from Poland, East Germany and Lithuania, are declining dramatically, and summer bathing is in jeopardy. The Vistula River, which runs through Poland, is so laden with poisons and corrosive chemicals that stretches are considered unusable for factory coolant systems, much less for drinking water. The Danube is endangered at every turning by runoff from nitrogen-rich agricultural fertilizers and by the industrial plants that discharge along its banks, from...