Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free january soviet instability prompts czechs to Speed reforms los Angeles times Prague a growing sense of urgency Over putting democratic structures in place emerged Here apparently spurred by concern that events in the soviet Union May spin out of president Mikhail Gorbachev All the information i and also my Tell me that the times Are such that we must work president Vaclav Havel told the slovak National Council in who headed the democratic movement civic forum until taking Over the presidency last did not explain the reasons for his in but Jan another member that from a political Point of people think that because of develop ments in the soviet we should have free elections As soon As Urban told an interviewer that the movement is Strong enough to Cope with any attempted comeback by the czechoslovak communist but that we would have real problems an elected the concern is that a combination of economic problems and ethnic unrest in some of the soviet republics could threaten Gorbachev hold on Power and the integrity of the soviet Union such a crisis might tempt Gorba Chev to crack or face being ousted in favor of a tougher Leader of civic forums inner said with Strong soviet pressure without with unforeseeable Impact on the Kremlin policy toward Czecho Slovakia and the other East Europe an nations that broke with the Kremlin last a Well placed czechoslovak communist party source said in a Sepa rate interview yesterday that sever Al influential soviet visitors have recently expressed concern that Czechoslovakia revolution has gone too a communist Heads the coalition government of Czechoslovakia that was installed in Decem but Havel and civic forum Wield the real political the government is without said the party who is a Leader of the reformist faction known As the democratic forum of draft Law denounced As cheap by David Remnick the Washington Post leaders of the lithuanian Independence move yesterday denounced As a cheap lie and a propaganda trap soviet president Mikhail Gor Baches announcement Here that the Kremlin has begun work on a draft Law outlining procedures for any of the 15 soviet republics to Gorbachev criticized Independence leaders As adventure its who were Tilting at telling fairy tales and leading the lithuanian people into potential eco nomic but he also told a gathering of intellectuals that procedural issues raised by secession will be worked out to provide credibility for the longstanding soviet constitutional right of a Republic to leave the although Gorbachev gave no details of the unprecedented draft such a measure is considered Likely to give the entire country a role in deciding on a republics bid for be this is an absurd and the subtext is that there will Only be a Law just so that none of us can make a saudis chairman vytau tas Landsbergis it is an in our people must decide for it is a propaganda because if we accept such a Law it will mean that we Are admitting that we Are a Legal part of the Union in the first crippling provisions Romualdas a saudis Leader and member of the politburo of the republics Independent communist said that while Gorba Chev has been direct in his discus Sions the new procedures for secession were not being drafted openly and were Likely to include crippling such As de mands for economic compensation to most advocates of outright Independence Here describe lithuanians As victims of a historic injustice by a conquering Empire and argue that Lithuania should be allowed to de cide its own Fate in a perhaps As soon As this As with Many soviet Gorbachev has been confronted once again with the legacy of Josef his cruelty and Imperial Estonia and Mol Davia were annexed by Stalin in 1940 As part of a 1939 agreement with nazi and in the next dec Ades thousands in those republics were deported or saudis As Well As the republics government and communist party describe the nazi soviet pact As Ille the Congress of Peoples deputies also has condemned the prewar claiming that his reforms and his a photo Gorbachev visits with a family on a collective farm during his Campaign to curb lithuanian political Fate Are inextricably linked to Resolution of the lithuanian ques Gorbachev has travelled around the by turns Carol sooth arguing and at one Stop he made his pitch at a collective farm in about 200 Kilometres Northwest of Gorbachev goal has been simple in the face of overwhelming pro Independence sentiment daunting to persuade the lithuanians to remain in the Union and cooperate in the renewal of the country and its economic and Politi Cal in a session held thursday and broadcast Gorbachev told the intellectuals that As an inde pendent Lithuania will go he warned that your Freedom will come at the expense of others you Are a civilized peo your conscience will not allow he if theres anyone Here who thinks that its All so easy that today or tomorrow you just have an get together and raise your hands and leave the soviet this is not it Doest even re rotely smell of its simply not historic change that a soviet Leader is even considering such issues As real Republican sovereignty or outright Independence is a change of historic but there Are times As Well when Gorbachev has taken on a menacing apparently frustrated with his efforts to convince the crowds that they will thrive in a rejuvenated soviet Union or sink on their today i am your he but if you choose to go another then i will do everything i can to show that you Are leading people into a dead appearing exasperated with historical arguments about the Baltic Gorbachev contended that he was looking Forward while Independence leaders insisted on concentrating on the the soviet Leader has tried to paint a portrait of two futures one in which an Independent Lithuania founders economically and its ethnic minorities lose their rights and an other in which All the republics pooling their resources and strengths create a transformed and vital soviet the intellectuals started to mum ble when Gorbachev began to de scribe political and economic sovereignty for each Republic in a Federal Gorbachev looked up and a yes do you know what a federation is he youve never lived in you know they say that lithuanians Are it turns out that it All evaporates quickly when there should be but Only opinion you will like it or not we Are not Landsbergis laughed at Gorba chess suggestion that Lithuania would land in a mud puddle economically if it were forced to face world prices and no longer had a Cess to subsidised Gas and other resources from Russia and the rest of the poor he thinks Well go broke How could we be much worse off Landsbergis Why should we cast our lot with a country that has been a foreign occupier along with other Kremlin leaders on the three Day Mission to the said that secession would not Only pose a threat to soviet but would also mean Lithuania would have to pay the Union reparations for hous factories and other construct slave like labor indignant at the Sug what about compensation for All the the tens of of our people deported around the country to do slave like labor the scene was broadcast by state run foreign reporters were not permit Ted to accompany Gorbachev in is Juliai because it is a military Gorbachev trip to Lithuania stemmed from a decision last month by the republics communist party to break with the vast majority of the republics party leaders formed an Independent the still Loyal to the Moscow has become known Here sarcastically in some circles As the Ceausescu a reference to the deposed romanian before returning today to to Gorbachev is to give a major speech on the lithuanian but the Issue is expected to remain the communist party Central committee is to consider the Issue again at an extended plenum on party expected at the end of the Kre cos Gigantic warehouse spa Bath Pool get i l i Luik of Canadian egg marketing fld to Burger King for breakfast 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