Word: lithuania
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...struggle for control of the Baltic Republics in the Soviet Union has shown that full-blown greed, competition and vicious take-overs are not the sole province of Drexel Burnham. The secession of the Republic of Lithuania from the Soviet Union promises to be bigger than the break-up of AT&T. Corporate raiders beware--Soviet President Mikail S. Gorbachev may soon be the new Carl Icahn...
...price tag on Lithuania is now about $34 billion dollars. That's what Gorbachev said that the Republic of Lithuania owes the Soviet Union for investments in factories, roads, nuclear reactors and other improvements introduced by Joseph Stalin and the Red Army Civic Improvement Association...
...Lithuanians countered by handing Gorbachev a bill for more $800 billion dollars--Lithuania's estimate of the economic loss from 40 years of communist stagnation...
...would have to cheer loudly because Gorbachev is a very good student. His handling of the situation in Lithuania is reminiscent of Donald Trump's battle with Merv Griffin over casinos in Atlantic City...
...GORBACHEV still believed in preserving Communism at any cost, he would send the tanks rolling into Lithuania tomorrow. It would shatter his reformist image, but he could...