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...following afternoon some 5,000 demonstrators filled the tiny square in front of Tallinn's pink-and-white Toompea Palace, the Estonian seat of government. It was a Russian-speaking crowd, carrying banners calling on workers to DEFEND SOVIET POWER and demanding the resignation of President Arnold Ruutel. When the protesters broke through a locked gate into the palace courtyard, Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar put out a radio call for help, crying, "We are being assaulted. This is a coup attempt." Crowds of Estonians rushed to the square and pushed the Russians...
...into a rainbow of national colors, a sign that whatever their unity of aims, each state still proudly clings to its own national traditions. In Estonia the once banned blue-black- and-white flag from the period of independence between the two World Wars waves again above Tallinn's Toompea Castle. Latvia has hoisted its traditional crimson-and-white banner above Riga Castle. In Lithuania the historic yellow- green-and-red tricolor flutters once more from Gediminas Tower in Vilnius. A report from each of the Baltic republics...
Across the square at Toompea Castle, 264 deputies were assembled in the parliamentary chamber for an extraordinary session. After a day of sometimes passionate debate that was broadcast live over radio and television, the legislators, in an unprecedented display of national assertion, voted unanimously to reject a package of proposed constitutional changes that will be presented next week to the Supreme Soviet in Moscow...
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