Word: lithuania
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...atop the economic woes is the horseman of ethnic anarchy amid the 15 national republics that constitute the Soviet Union. Armenia and Azerbaijan are nearly at war with each other, Moldavia has been crippled by ethnically inspired strikes, Georgians are demanding an end to the "Soviet empire," and in Lithuania the Communist Party has abolished its own monopoly of power, the most striking sign of Baltic nationalism to date...
...perestroika's wake, this reform ranked among the most wildly farfetched. But last week the prospect of abolishing the party's "leading role" in the U.S.S.R. gained momentum when the Lithuanian legislature voted 243 to 1 in favor of a constitutional amendment legalizing rivals to the Communist Party. While Lithuania thus became the first Soviet republic to do so, in neighboring Estonia the Communist Party Central Committee approved a similar proposal that should easily pass the legislature next month. In Armenia angry crowds surrounded parliament after legislators rejected a multiparty system. This week Andrei Sakharov and other members...
...same time, Lithuania's Communist Party is on the brink of cutting its ties to the national organization. Fearing defeat in elections scheduled for February, the Lithuanian leadership is desperate to redeem the local party in the voters' eyes, despite warnings from Moscow that perestroika will disintegrate under the pressure of their extreme separatism. If the Lithuanians succeed in severing their links, they will set a provocative precedent that is sure to be repeated in other republics...
East Germany is faced with the dissolution of party leadership, Czechoslovakia with government paralysis. The turmoil reaches even into the Soviet Union, as Lithuania legalizes political pluralism against Gorbachev's wishes. A TIME symposium explores the future of Europe. The coup's lessons for Corazon Aquino. Colombia's scorecard in its fight against drugs...
...Cardinals to Moscow last year to celebrate the Christian millennium. Casaroli managed a 90-minute meeting with Gorbachev and handed him a three-page letter plus a memo from John Paul listing complaints about treatment of Catholics. Gorbachev responded directly to several of the Pope's requests. Last year Lithuania's two leading bishops were returned to head dioceses after a combined 53 years of internal exile, and the cathedral in Vilnius, previously used as an art museum, was restored for worship. This year the Belorussian republic got its first bishop in 63 years. That paved the way for Archbishop...