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There has been a patriotic fervor to the demonstrations in Beijing. The protesters sang the national anthem and saluted the country's flag. It is all but impossible to imagine something similar happening if Latvians took over the main square in Riga or Ukrainians mobbed downtown Kiev. They would be singing songs and waving flags that would symbolize their dreams of independence and their resentment of Russian domination. Gorbachev's picture might be on their posters too. However, that would be because the demonstrators would see him as not just a reformer but a liberator. That is one role that...
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (Rodnik, Riga, Nos. 3-6, 1989). The famous 1945 critique of totalitarianism sold out immediately...
...apparent about- face in the Baltics been more evident than in the guardedly favorable recognition given the popular fronts. When the Estonians held an organizational congress in Tallinn two weeks ago, Communist Party First Secretary Vaino Valjas brought greetings from Gorbachev. At the end of a similar conference in Riga last week, Latvian party leader Janis Vagris stressed that "Communists and members of the Popular Front have common objectives...
...Soviet leader embarked on a tour of the independent- minded Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia. The visit was his first to an ethnic region since last December's Kazakhstan riots (see following story). Accompanied by his wife Raisa and Soviet television crews, Gorbachev waded into a crowd in Riga, the Latvian capital, and told the people...
...feeling has grown in the Soviet Union that this time he must return from a summit with something more substantial than an autographed picture of Reagan. "We have been saying deeds matter more than words," said Central Committee Member Georgi Kornienko at the recent U.S.-Soviet conference in Riga, Latvia. "We want to see a summit that accomplishes deeds and doesn't just produce more words...