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- WORLD, Page 39World NotesSOVIET UNIONThree's A Crowd
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- 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.
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- The 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 11.
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