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...Gorbachev has infinitely greater might on his side than Lincoln did in the Civil War, but considerably less right. And he knows it. Unlike Lincoln, Gorbachev has already conceded secession in principle. His ever droll spokesman, Gennadi Gerasimov, talks about divorce. By setting a price on its property in Lithuania, Moscow has opened negotiations on alimony...
...made in 1956 when it egged on the Hungarian freedom fighters, leading many of them to die in the expectation of more help than the West could possibly provide. Bush has correctly concentrated on persuading Gorbachev to avert bloodshed and work toward a compromise. To urge him to grant Lithuania the instant annulment it demands would be futile and, as they say in Washington, counterproductive...
...Lithuanians have shown more political courage than political wisdom. Neither quality has been much in evidence from those members of the U.S. Congress who have called for formal recognition of a free Lithuania. Such a thing should and may someday exist, but it cannot be voted into existence by legislators in either Vilnius or Washington in defiance of Moscow. By applauding a morality play as though it were itself a happy ending, Congress is only increasing the chances that it will turn into a tragedy...
Still, Landsbergis seems an unlikely conductor of Lithuania's symphony of defiance. With his brown beard, wire-rim glasses and brown corduroy jacket, he looks every bit the egghead that he is. A pianist at heart and a professor of music by trade, Landsbergis is more comfortable before a keyboard than a crowd; the music he sends up from the ivories is far more lyrical and moving than the political articles he pens. He is married to a fellow pianist, Grazina, and is proud that his family is caught up in the struggle for independence. "All of them are emotionally...
WORLD: In Lithuania, a test of wills between two canny and stubborn leaders...