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...leaders of the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania also pressed ahead with their challenge to Gorbachev, possibly hoping to make their case an issue at the summit. The presidents of the three republics met on May 12 in Tallinn, the Estonian capital, to form a united front by reviving the Baltic Council, a policy-coordinating body that dates from before World War II. They sent a letter to Gorbachev asking for joint negotiations on independence. Gorbachev responded last week with two decrees that said the Baltic states were violating the Soviet constitution...
...LITHUANIA. The Council of Ministers slashed milk and meat supplies to the Soviet Union by 10% as a retaliatory move against Moscow's economic sanctions...
...Awarded keys to the city to two visitors from the Soviet Union Rimantas Matulis, a recently elected city councillor from Vilnius, Lithuania, is visiting Cambridge to learn about the workings of local democratic government. Gregorii B. Maistrenko, a high school teacher from Leningrad, is visiting the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School along with one other Russian teacher and 10 students as part of an education exchange program...
Breaking up is not that hard to do -- especially if it's been done before. More than a month after its neighbors Lithuania and Estonia declared their independence from Moscow, Latvia last week became the final Baltic republic to split from the Soviet Union. By a vote of 138 to 0, the Latvian parliament approved the start of an unspecified period of transition to full independence. In the interim, it called for negotiations with Moscow...
...independence movement in Latvia is in part a means for ethnic Latvians, who make up only 54% of the population, to avoid becoming a minority. But independence leaders are proceeding cautiously. Lithuania is still suffering under Moscow's economic restrictions for its abrupt secession on March...