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  1.                                                                                 THE WEEK, Page 23WORLDEt Cetera
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  4.     THEM AGAIN
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  6.     Fed up with the failing economy, Lithuanians handed their
  7. former Communist leaders a surprise victory in the first
  8. parliamentary election for the tiny Baltic nation since it won
  9. independence last year. The conquest of the newly formed
  10. Democratic Labor Party, headed by moderate ex-Communist Algirdas
  11. Brazauskas, dealt a bitter blow to the nationalist Sajudis
  12. party, which had heroically spearheaded Lithuania's break with
  13. Moscow and hastily set off on a path of economic reform.
  14. Brazauskas has promised to slow the pace of change and improve
  15. relations with Russia.
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