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- <text id=90TT1763>
- <title>
- July 09, 1990: World Notes:Soviet Union
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 38
- World Notes
- SOVIET UNION
- Let's Make A Deal
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> A freeze has broken the ice in Lithuania. Four months after
- breaking away from Moscow, the Supreme Council voted to put a
- 100-day hold on independence in return for the start of
- negotiations.
- </p>
- <p> During the debate, Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera
- Prunskiene warned that relief must be found from the economic
- sanctions imposed in April by Soviet President Mikhail
- Gorbachev: "We have to do something. We have to take a risk."
- The resolution set a time limit and stipulated that it could
- be extended or terminated only by the Lithuanians. These
- conditions finally brought the more cautious President Vytautas
- Landsbergis on board and made a lifting of the blockade
- possible.
- </p>
- <p> For Gorbachev the prospect of negotiations with the balky
- republic would cool at least one grievance.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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