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...scenes suggested a forward outpost of civilization girding itself for an impending attack by barbarians -- and such an impression would not be far from the truth. Early last week, without warning, a squad of thuggish special forces from the Soviet Interior Ministry, known as black berets, attacked the Latvian Interior Ministry. In a 30-min. exchange of machine-gun and rifle fire, they killed two Latvian militiamen, a well-known filmmaker and a bystander...
...Soviet military's bloodletting in the Baltics touched off a 100,000-strong protest march in Moscow and a stream of warnings from abroad, the Kremlin has not backed down. Its armed forces continue to rumble through the tiny republics' streets, seizing buildings and striking threatening attitudes. The Interior and Defense ministries have announced that the national police and the army will begin joint patrols next month in all major cities, apparently including the Baltic capitals. They claimed the move was intended to fight the increase in violent crime, but the heavily armed patrols will obviously be available...
...military fist in an attempt to intimidate them. He is probably under pressure to go much further by the hardliners who now surround him: his original perestroika team has been replaced by a Vice President from the Communist Party hierarchy, a KGB man and a combat general at the Interior Ministry, and an unreconstructed cold warrior at the head...
...deplete the forage and interfere with the cattle grazing on the surrounding public lands. Last week the battle raged in the courts, as animal- rights activists lost -- at least for now -- a fight to block another season of slaughter of the very symbol of the U.S. Department of the Interior: the American bison...
...spite of all this self-justification, Gorbachev denied that he gave the order to shoot. "I learned about what happened when they woke me up the next morning," he said. Interior Minister Boris Pugo and Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov shirked responsibility as well. The decision was made, said Yazov, by the army commander in Vilnius, whose assignment was to protect "all members of society...