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- <text id=90TT1213>
- <title>
- May 14, 1990: World Notes:Soviet Union
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 39
- World Notes
- SOVIET UNION
- Three's A Crowd
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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