Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 24, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free april lithuanians feel squeeze As supplies of fuel dwindle lithuanians formed Long lines for gasoline and groceries yester Day and the republics Only Oil refinery closed As Moscow economic blockade began to lithuanian Premier Kazimiera Prunskiene said yesterday the United states has refused to allow her to visit the country in May and she indicated it was because of the the economic pressure was followed by the threat of military action contained in com ments by soviet president Mikhail Gorba chess senior military if the lithuanian separatists break the then we will take measures to enforce the marshal Sergei Fakhr Omeyer said in an interview with the i am not afraid of using Force if lithuanian president Vytatus Landsbergis said he is taking the threat its always a real threat As Long As theres no willingness to use Landsbergis told reporters before entering where he urged legislators to draw up an emergency plan for expected mass a parliamentary Rita said Landsbergis later told Legisla tors that by refusing to Rule out the use of Gorbachev was staking his entire Reform program on bringing Lithuania Back to the in a train carrying about 30 tanks moved through the such displays of military Force have become commonplace in Lithuania since the March 11 declaration of a Fourman lithuanian delegation arrived in Moscow to try to negotiate a solution to the but lithuanian officials said the Dele gation got no Promise of meetings with soviet at one Gas station in the West end of a line of some double stretched about half a the station was As was the Oil refinery in the Northern City of which employs about Gorbachev imposed the blockade last week in his most forceful attempt to Date to Force the lithuanian government to Back Down on Oil supplies were Cut completely and natural Gas shipments were scaled leaving enough Only for consumer which produces no Oil of its has reserves for about a sometime next mass layoffs will begin As fac tories run out of about workers Are expected to be on the panic buying lithuanian officials said this weekend that Moscow was also cutting shipments of food and Industrial a claim denied by Andrei a senior communist party official from but at the food store on Zesario 16th Street in Central clerk Antanina Sucho Dols Kaya said the republics grocery distributor informed the shop yesterday there will be no deliveries of Premium cigarettes and theres panic people Are buying every Landsbergis went on television on sunday night to Appeal to lithuanians to leave cars at Home yesterday and use Public transport to save fuel for at the Lenin District fire Alfonsas Stankunas said he gets As much fuel As he needs for his two gasoline powered fire in an average one truck uses 600 the equivalent of 20 fills of Gas for private motorists allowed 30 litres a Georgi Yanitis took Landsbergis advice and walked 10 Kilometres to work despite the Yanitis said there is no other Choice for Lithuania but Independence from theres no Way said Diana Zug the Mother of a 17yearold its to live in an Independent Lithuania or a delegation from the lithuanian Parlia ment met yesterday with Canadian members of the commons external affairs Canadian embassy spokesman roman Waschuk said the lithuanians said they want to develop Trade relations with Prunskiene told a Moscow Airport news conference she had intended to visit the United states in a but she had been granted a visa Only from Early Prunskiene declined to spell out Why she thought her trip was being saying Only you put the dates see what is happening in the and it will be Clear to Gorbachev is to visit Washington for a Summit with president Bush from May 30 to june soviet crisis worse top economists out gloom Cia by Robert Rankin Knight Ridder newspapers Washington the soviet unions Economy is dramatically weaker than the Cia even though the Cia thinks it is feeble to the Point of top soviet economists said the Cia reckons the soviet econ omy is about half the size of Ameri but it really is Only 14 to 28 per cent As the soviet experts russian living standards Are worse than brazils and certainly Arent close to being on third of Levels As Cia data they military expenses Swallow about 25 per cent of soviet they a much bigger bite than the 15 to 17 per cent estimated by the in a news conference Here yester Day resembling a game of can you top the soviet experts de tailed just How broken Down their Economy is d Industrial production Sank by five to six per cent at a minimum in the first three months of they meat production is Only half As High As official soviet statistics Indi and Grain output is similarly nonexistent d most consumer once Pla Gued by now Are simply you can buy bread some milk not All sugar you can buy Only if you have ration no no to no Furni no vacuum and no summarized Oleg Bogo director of the Institute of economics of the world socialist who is also a member of the soviet parliament and the Academy of Cia and soviet experts compared notes at an unprecedented fou Day close door Retreat in nearby War sounding More like righting re publicans than the so Viets blasted government monopoly Power As the Root of russian eco nomic the motivation to labor has been completely said Viktor Belkin of the Academy of Sci the people will not work for empty the state pretends to pay people and the people pretend to said in he workers need real material this is the goal of our economic sin soviet split Healing Moscow a China and the soviet Union have the right to tailor reforms to their own Premier i Peng said yesterday As he began the first visit to the by a chinese head of government in 26 Lis fou Day trip is aimed at improving relations and easing Border tensions As both countries grapple with Domestic at a Kremlin dinner in his the 61yearold Premier noted that the soviet Union and China share a both Are socialist countries and conduct Reform and 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