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<text id=90TT1285>
<title>
May 21, 1990: World Notes:Soviet Union
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 44
World Notes
SOVIET UNION
Brickbats from The Baltics
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<p> As Moscow celebrated the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany last
week, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov insisted that the Baltic
states had been "liberated" by the Red Army, not occupied, as
the secessionists contend. "We were met with flowers," said
Yazov. But Soviet officials were the targets, of brickbats
rather than bouquets in the three Baltic capitals, which
jointly announced an agreement for the direct trading of their
agricultural products among themselves, cutting out Soviet
ministries.
</p>
<p> ESTONIA. Parliament voted to restore a paragraph to its
constitution that declares the country is "an independent
republic," and to drop "Soviet Socialist" from its name. The
prewar tricolor national flag was hoisted over the parliament
building, replacing the red flag.
</p>
<p> LATVIA. After parliament announced that a transition period
leading to independence had begun, Soviet tanks and armored
vehicles rolled through Riga. Ivars Godmanis of the Popular
Front was elected Prime Minister, and panic buying emptied
stores of sausages and soap.
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<p> 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.
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