Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january urged continued frontage 1 clearly sanctioned by the unit seized the government printing and on 16 the troops were accused of killing a government Driver who was shot through the head in his the latvian radio and the official soviet news Agency Tass said five civilians had been one of them a latvian journalist and nine had been reports from Riga said crowds of angry latvians had gathered along Freedom Street Yeltsin hero of huge ratty continued from Page 1 happening he referring to International concentration on the persian Gulf in about protes ters marched to the Square in front of the Palace where the russian Czar once we Are with Gorbachev kills and Gorba Chev their banners the Moscow rally was organized by the democratic Russia move which is seeking a kind of sovereignty association with the soviet the slogan for the anti Kremlin gathering was Lithuania Russia demonstration was peaceful and oddly quiet As the thousands of protesters listened attentively to speaker after speaker condemn Baches and Praise russian presi Dent Boris the Radical popu list leading the charge for a new Deal for the largest of the 15 soviet every now and then there would be glum chants of Baku or Vil Nius or places that have experienced firsthand the brute Force of the soviet soviet troops killed scores of peo ple in the capital of the South Ern Republic of and in Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia in 1989 and fourteen people died in the capital of Lithia in a soviet offensive against Independence two weeks the flags of the Baltic and Russia waved High above the sea of protes there were thousands of ban ners and one of which read what if your daughter had been under the tank several people in Vilnius were crushed by soviet democracy can live Only if some one is defending a representative of Lithuania told the democracy is working Only if someone is dying for if nobody is dying for democracy is Long lines of shoppers trailed from the few food stores open for business along the routes leading to the demonstration further proof for disgruntled soviets that the communist system has the danger of dictatorship has become a Yeltsin said in a message to the rally read by a president Gorbachev has started on the course of whipping up ethnic supporting self pro claimed committees of on the path of justifying the use of weapons against a peaceful Popula after the but there were no reports of further the president of the latvian National federation in Guntis yesterday urged the Canadian government to Cut All Aid to the soviet Union and impose sanctions Call an emergency debate in Parlia ment Call on the in to Send observers to the Baltic republics and continue to raise the Baltic Issue at the conference on Security and cooperation in officials in Moscow made no immediate comment on the the latvian radio said the republics prime Ivars who led the popular front that ousted the communist government in elections last had called to demand an explanation from de Fence minister Dmitri Yazoo but that Yazoo had denied any knowl Edge of the after an attack on the nationalist government of Lithuania by soviet army troops last president Mikhail Gorbachev denied any and Vance knowledge of the but he endorsed the action of the Gorbachev has also left no doubt of his impatience with the drive to Independence in the three he has assailed recently in Sharp Reuters quoted the latvian Deputy Interior Zenon As saying that Only about 15 persons had been on duty in the building and that resistance had been use by officials said that the shooting had stopped and that the building was still surrounded by police officers Loyal to the latvian the officials said negotiations were under Way Between the pro Moscow occupiers and the lat Vian the assault raised initial fears that soviet army troops had decided to move against separatist latvian officials As they did a week ago against the lithuanian nationalists in killing 15 but latvian officials said the action seemed More an isolated attack by the Black and not the feared assault by regular soviet the United states has condemned the most recent outbreak of violence Between Moscow and the Baltic re Gions in the strongest language it has used in recent but Washington has so far not taken any stronger action against the soviet the special units actions have been used to support the soviet governments claims that the situation in Riga is but there has been no direct evidence that the soviet authorities in Riga or in Moscow had guided or sanctioned Sun Day nights operation by the Black the attack began about 9 when tracer bullets lit up the night sky in the City Centre around the Interior witnesses officials of the latvian govern ment reached by the omon troops had occupied the first and fifth floors of the police officers Loyal to the elected latvian government then surrounded the and the shooting died As of officials 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the air but As for Iraq scud missile that very much open to he iraqi which also have been fired at have done relatively Little but they remain a useful terror particularly against whose leaders yester Day still held out the possibility of israeli retaliation against who gave a round of television interviews said he has very High Confidence iraqi nuclear reactors have been knocked out of some Western strategists had said Iraq nuclear weapons potential should be a major target of the Iraq nuclear reactors were destroyed by israeli warplanes while the facilities were under construction in there have been reports Iraq was trying to operate the which Baghdad says Are for peaceful the pounding of Baghdad was bombs fell All through the Earl morning darkness can correspondent Peter Arnett re ported from the iraqi Arnett reported seeing one cruise missile shot Down near his Baghdad and another Roar by about 100 metres from his lot floor coalition air losses mounted a total of 15 warplanes have 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