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Wading into crowds, the Soviet President proved himself a master of street theater, improvising historical, philosophical and legalistic arguments as he pressed his appeal to Lithuanians to step back from their threatened breach with Moscow. When his entreaties met with smiles and shouts of "Bravo, Gorbachev!" he answered with poignant appeals. "My personal fate is linked to this choice," he reminded the crowds. When he read resistance in the faces of his listeners, he fumed and lectured, employing the Socratic method to grill his audience...
Forty-three Catholic fathers, mostly converts from the Episcopal Church, are also husbands. Oddly, some liberal priests and nuns are not applauding this breach in the celibacy rule...
...Lithuanian parliament voted to abolish the party's constitutionally guaranteed monopoly on power -- a move Kremlin leaders have been resisting on the national level. Just last week the Latvian parliament followed its neighbor in eliminating the Communist Party's unique leading role. Lithuanian party leader Algirdas Brazauskas organized the breach with Moscow to shore up credibility before local elections on Feb. 24. "Without these changes," he said, "our party will lack the appeal necessary to guarantee its existence...
...Harvard men's basketball team got a taste of left-coast hoops over break at the Long Breach Classic. The Crimson faced off with Southern California in its opening game. As Harvard Coach Peter Roby said, "We don't see too many teams like USC in the Ivy League...
...uncomfortable partnership was made possible after Socialist leader Andreas Papandreou finally dropped his demand for electoral reforms that would have benefited the leftists. The former Prime Minister, 70, who has been charged with bribe taking and breach of faith, will have no formal position in the new government...