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- <text id=90TT0663>
- <title>
- Mar. 19, 1990: World Notes:Soviet Union
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 36
- World Notes
- SOVIET UNION
- Please Pay on Your Way Out
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> From the start, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has
- warned Lithuanians that there would be a price to pay for the
- secession of the republic. Last week he put a tag on it: $35
- billion.
- </p>
- <p> Moscow contends that if Lithuania quits the Soviet Union,
- to which it was forcibly annexed in 1940, it must compensate
- the central government for $28 billion in capital investment
- over the years and $7 billion for goods the republic has not
- delivered to the rest of the country. Gorbachev also warned
- that Lithuania might have to turn over the important port of
- Klaipeda. Leaders of the pro-independence Sajudis movement,
- which won a huge mandate in February elections for the
- Lithuanian parliament, were undeterred. They replied that they
- were preparing their own bill for 50 years of subjugation by
- Moscow.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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