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Soviet tanks roll into Lithuanian capital
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. - Soviet ar
mor rolled through Vilnius in a show
of strength Thursday and leaders of
this rebellious Baltic republic appealed
for world support to forestall the
possible use of force in Lithuania.
In his escalating war of nerves,
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
also demanded Thursday that Lithu
ania stop signing up its own volunteer
force.
“It is clear that another republic is
going to use force against Lithuania
and its citizens," said a Lithuanian
government appeal to the world is
sued late Thursday. “Wc are asking
people to prevent this by protesting
the possible use of violence against a
member of the world community ...
against Lithuania and its citizens."
The republic’s president, Vytau
tus Landsbcrgis, in an emotional speech
to the Supreme Council legislature,
pledged that Lithuanians would keep
their drive for full independence from
Moscow peaceful.
“If tanks are sent to take away
shotguns and hunting rifles, we won’t
shoot at the tanks," said Landsbergis,
a music professor. “Our resistance
will be non-violence.” Defense offi
cials in Sweden said the military there
was put on higher alert after reports of
Soviet troop movements in Lithu
ania. Defense spokeswoman Kari
Hansson said that among other meas
ures, more pilots than usual were on
call.
Lithuania, forcibly incorporated
into the Soviet Union in 1940, de
clared its independence on March 11
in a decision Moscow refuses to rec
ognize.
Fifteen Soviet armored personnel
carriers and five trucks towing mili
tary equipment rumbled through the
capital Thursday afternoon.
Lithuania’s parliamentary press
office also reported in a statement
that three plainclothes officers ab
ducted Soviet army deserter Vidas
Valaviciusoff a Vilnius street Thurs
day night and that he was being held
at the military commandant’s office.
Hundreds of Lithuanians left the
Soviet armed forces to return home
after Lithuania declared independ
ence, and were warned to return to
their units by Saturday. But Valavi
cius’ detention was the first such case
reported.
The military vehicles entered
Vilnius hours after Prime Minister
Kazimicra Prunskicne complained of
increased activity by an estimated
30,(XX) Soviet soldiers here, and after
Gorbachev demanded that Lithuani
ans turn in all their firearms.
Algirdas Saudargas, head of par
liament’s Foreign Affairs Commit
tee, said Lithuanian officials feared
that an effort to round up deserters
might give Moscow an excuse to use
force.
Lithuanian officials continued to
call for negotiations with Gorbachev,
and said he had too much to risk by
using force.
Prunskicne said Thursday, “A
military attack would be the end of
perestroika, and Gorbachev’s policy
and his authority. I don’t think Gor
bachev would take such a measure.”
Ludwigas Sabutis, the republic’s
parliamentary secretary, said, “We
need support, we need help.”
The official Soviet news agency
Tass said border controls and exit and
entry in this republic of 3.8 million
people were being tightened.
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Hazelwood aquitted of major charges
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Exxon Valdez
skipper Joseph Hazelwood was acquitted of
three major charges and convicted of one mis
demeanor Thursday, two days before the first
anniversary of the nation’s worst oil spill.
The single charge on which Hazelwood was
convicted, negligent discharge of oil, carries a
maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and a
SI,000 fine, far less than the 70 years and
$61,000 fine he could have faced.
There were bursts of applause in the court
room as Superior Court Judge Karl Johnstone
read the first three verdicts of “not guilty.”
Hazelwood’s lawyers patted him on the
back, and for the first time in the long trial, the
normally solemn defendant smiled broadly.
The jurors absolved Hazelwood of all charges
alleging that he was drunk and reckless when
the tanker ran aground, spilling nearly 11 mil
lion gallons of oil into Prince William Sound.
Hazelwood, 43, is from Huntington, N.Y.
The jurors reached their verdict after only
10 1/2 hours of deliberations.
The jurors returned to their task today, check
ing in promptly at 8:30 a.m. and delivering the
verdict about noon. The trial is in its seventh
week.
Meanwhile, an alternate juror who was dis
missed once the regular jury began its delibera
tions told the Alaska Public Radio Network she
would have acquitted Hazelwood of all charges.
Terry Turner, an Anchorage bookkeeper,
said she doubts the skipper was drunk while in
command.
“There were 21 witnesses who said there
was no sign of impairment,” she said.
She added that she believed Hazelwood had
expected “a normal transit” of Prince William
Sound on the night of the March 24 grounding,
which might explain his decision to leave the
ship’s bridge.
Asked whether she believed Hazelwood was
drunk, she said: “No, I don’t think he was_
There was a lot more to it than that we had a
drunk captain running into a reef. They really
didn’t have evidence of it.”
Tumer said she felt Hazelwood’s loss of his
job and the impact on his life was sufficient
punishment for whatever role he had in the
disaster.
Saturday will be the first anniversary of the
disaster, in which the 987-foot tanker rammed
the charted reef in Prince William Sound, gushing
nearly 11 million gallons of North Slope crude
oil. The spill wreaked devastation on birds, fish
and wildlife, and coated hundreds of miles of
rocky shoreline.
The prosecution sought to prove that the
fired Exxon skipper was drunk when his ship
went aground at Bligh Reef while Hazelwood
was below.
Although 150 civil suits were filed and
Exxon was indicted in federal court, Hazel
wood was the only individual charged crimi
nally. His lawyers complained he was a scape
goat in a disaster with many culprits.
Whether Hazelwood was drunk when his
ship grounded remained a muddled issue be
cause authorities failed to do a timely blood
alcohol test. When they got around to it 10 1/2
hours after the grounding, Hazelwood had a
.061 alcohol reading, lower than the Alaska
standard of .10 for drunken driving.
Hazelwood, who chose not to testify, never
explained.
His New York lawyer, Michael Chalos, said
“We think it's a great victory for Captain
Hazelwood.” We had great faith in the jury
system. The only charge he’s been convicted of
is a low-level misdemeanor.”
Jim Morakis, a spokesman for Exxon in New
York, said the company, which has fired Ha
zelwood, was “pleased that the ordeal of the
trial is over for Capt. Hazelwood and his fam
ily.
“The verdict would seem to confirm the
view that the grounding of the Exxon Valdez
was an accident,” Morakis said. “In light ol
pending litigation any other comment would
be inappropriate.”
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