Word: lithuanian
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...fashioned iron fist remained poised last week over all three Baltic republics, which have asserted their independence from the U.S.S.R. Army paratroops in Vilnius openly threatened the Lithuanian government. Predicted President Vytautas Landsbergis, who was holed up in the barricaded parliament building awaiting the next move: "The legitimate powers in Lithuania and Latvia will be overthrown...
...Gorbachev told the parliament that "thousands of telegrams" had arrived at the Kremlin, along with appeals from the Committee of National Salvation, demanding presidential rule be imposed in Lithuania to halt the restoration of "a bourgeois state." He even waved a document, allegedly found by the KGB in a Lithuanian government building, which he said was a list of Communists and anti-independence leaders marked for detention...
...people were reported wounded, one young man shot in the face. As air-raid sirens shrilled across the cobblestone streets of the capital's center, angry young civilians at the publishing center surrounded a tank. "Why are you here?" they screamed at a crew member. "What are you doing?" Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, charging that troops were "spilling blood," placed an urgent call to Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet President could not come to the phone, Landsbergis was told; he was having lunch...
...Baltic workers in the breakaway republics. Massed outside the parliament building in Vilnius on Tuesday, a wave of these workers broke down the front door before local national guardsmen pushed back the assault with fire hoses. The next day the agitators returned to shout at some 12,000 Lithuanian counterdemonstrators summoned by President Landsbergis to display "our solidarity and determination...
...Kazimiera Prunskiene's government resigned after the parliament voted to rescind hefty food-price increases imposed just a day before. The economic reform drew outraged protests from Lithuania's Russians. Prunskiene, , a moderate widely admired for her ability to cool tensions with Moscow, also came under fire from ardent Lithuanian nationalists who consider her too soft on the Kremlin. The result, as liberals saw it, was a breakdown of authority tailor-made for Moscow to exploit...