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Lithuanians defy Kremlin’s warnings
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. - Hundreds of
Lithuanian youths volunteered Tues
day to serve as the breakaway repub
lic’s customs and frontier guards
despite a Kremlin warning not to
change border security operations.
Lithuanian President Vytautas
Landsbergis said the warning from
Moscow actually marked the begin
ning of negotiations on the Baltic
republic’s demand for independence.
He said Lithuania agreed with much
of the Kremlin statement, including
the order to maintain trade ties.
Lithuania declared itself independ
ent on March 11,50 years after it was
occupied by the Red Army and an
nexed by the Soviet Union. The So
viet Parliament declared the decree
invalid but did not say what steps it
would take to stop the republic from
seceding.
In a stem warning to Lithuania on
Monday, the Kremlin ordered its own
ministries to ensure there were no
interruptions in customs and frontier
procedures and in trade, transport and
communications.
Lithuania on Tuesday moved ahead
with plans to take charge of its bor
ders, however, and youths volunteered
to help.
“I served two years in the occupy
ing army, and now I want to serve in
my own country’s,” said a young
man as he rushed to turn in his appli
cation in a cramped office in the Lithu
anian capital’s center.
Lithuanian officials said there were
no plans to arm the border force.
The symbolic value of the force
may help convince other governments
that Lithuania is controlling its terri
tory and should be formally recog
nized as a full-fledged country, said
Edward Tuskcnis of the republic par
liament’s information center.
Lithuania, on the Soviet Union’s
Western front line, contains eight
military bases and tens, if not hun
dreds of thousands of troops, accord
ing to emigre sources.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
has said he docs not intend to use
force against the rebellious republic.
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard
nadze, speaking Tuesday in Wind
hoek, Namibia, reiterated that posi
tion. 4 4 We arc against the use of force
inany region, and particularly against
the use of force domestically,” he
said.
The White House voiced concern
about Soviet troop movements on
Lithuania’s borders, but spokesman
Marlin Filzwatcr said Gorbachev had
offered assurances the Kremlin would
not resort to force.
Lithuanian officials said the bor
der force was intended largely to keep
Soviet shoppers from stripping Lithu
anian shelves bare in ease of short
ages.
Many of the hundreds of youths
who signed up to serve on the force
are recent deserters from tlic Red Army,,
said Ludwiga Pociunicnc, who was;
taking the applications at the Lithu
anian Parliament building.
Lithuanian Deputy Prime Minis
ter Kazimicras Molicka said the Lithu
anian government was registering the
deserters in hopes of protecting them
from forcible return to their units.
However, he said military authorities
had warned the government that steps
would be taken to arrest the soldiers
and return them to the army begin
ning on Saturday.
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