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! Lithuanians fear martial law imposition
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. - The mood in
the Lithuanian capital was grim Sun
day as the Soviet army moved in
dozens of additional armored person
nel carriers just hours after a threaten
ing statement from Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev.
The combination of the warning,
the reinforcements, Friday’s seizure
of a Lithuanian government building
by Soviet troops and the Soviet Un
l ion’s drive to remove foreign corre
spondents from the republic by Sun
day night had many people worried
that martial law would be imposed
within days.
“I fear they arc going to start
shooting,” said one middle-aged
Lithuanian woman.
Last week, Gorbachev said he would
use force only if there was a threat to
life. Since then, Soviet authorities
have complained of several sniper
attacks on soldiers.
Lithuanian officials said they can
find no evidence to support the alle
gations and many fc^r that the reports
are being created to serve as a pretext
for a military crackdown.
Gorbachev has said he fears a break
up of the Soviet Union could result in
chaos and violent conflict. He has
said it would uproot many of the 60
million people who do not live in
their ancestral lands.
Saturday night, Gorbachev urged
Lithuanian leaders to reverse their
republic’s declaration of independ
ence, saying they must recognize their
responsibilty for the Lithuanian
people’s “security and well-being,
for the state of democracy in the whole
country, and stability in the world.”
He warned that if they refuse, “the
developments may have grave conse
quences for all of us.”
Lithuanian President Vytautas
Landsbergis said Saturday night
Gorbachev was “demanding impos
sible things,” but said he would send
a delegation to Moscow today to try
to begin negotiations.
On Sunday, the last foreign corre
spondents were being rousted out of
the republic. Hundreds of journalists
from across the world obeyed the
Soviet government’s order to depart,
fearing the loss of their Moscow bu
reaus if they refused.
Many said they were depressed at
being forced to leave Lithuania after
Gorbachev’s warning.
“You do get this very sick feeling
in your stomach that as soon as we
leave... it’s not going to be pretty,”
said Jonathan Sanders of CBS.
“People in the (Lithuanian) TV
station are very nervous,” he said.
Sanders said the Lithuanian journal
ists expect their reporting of the
Moscow-Vilnius war of nerves to be
halted as soon as foreign networks are
no longer on hand to record a Soviet
takeover ot their stations.
The Soviet army reinforced its
garrison in central Vilnius Sunday
with at least 45 armored personnel
carriers.
“It’s the same Brezhnev doctrine
at work as in Czechoslovakia,’ ’ only
this time, Gorbachev is moving “with
a smile, slowly and easily,’’ said
Algimantas Cckuolis, editor of the
Lithuanian newspaper Gintasis Kras
tas, who has become a de facto spokes
man for the independent government.
He was referring to the doctrine
under which late Soviet leader Le
onid Brezhnev justified the 1968
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslo
vakia.
Despite the pressure, Lithuanian
officials say they are convinced they
will last longer than Gorbachev’s
authority over a splintering empire.
“Our tactics are to hold on a couple
of months,” Cckuolis said. He said
he hopes for support from other So
viet republics moving toward inde
pendence and from other democrati
cally minded legislators just elected
to the Russian parliament.
Lithuanians also said Gorbachev
risks the loss of respect in the Soviet
Union and in the world if he is unable
to assert his authority without resort
ing to force.
“They are compromising the lead
ership of the Soviet Union,” Landsbcr
gis said.
Colt considers new production
of AR15 assault-style weapons
WASHINGTON - The new own
ers of Colt Firearms arc weighing
whether to resume production of the
Colt AR15, the popular U.S.-made,
assault-style rifle.
The former owners stopped sales
to civilians last year when the gov
ernment banned imports of similar
weapons.
Ron Stilwell, executive vice presi
dent and chief operating officer of
what is now called Colt’s Manufac
turing Co., said the Hartford, Conn.
based company is considering whether
to start producing AR 15s for civilians
again.
“We are evaluating that,’’ Stilwell
said in an interview. “We will have
some formal statements on it in the
future.
“We firmly believe it is a legiti
mate sporting system and in fact the
only system that can be used for cer
tain national target matches,” he said.
The firearms division of Colt In
dustries was sold March 22 to a group
of investors, C.F. Holding.
The Colt AR 15 was the most popu
lar U.S.-made sem iaulomatic assault
style rifle when the former owners
shut down production for the civilian
market in March 1989.
The action occurred the day after
the federal government imposed a
temporary import ban on dozens of
foreign-made weapons with similar
characteristics. The import ban be
came permanent last July on 43 styles
of rifles.
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At the time, Colt Industries spokes
man Mike Dunn said, “We want to
conform to the spirit of the law al
though we weren’t specifically men
tioned in the letter of the law.”
Dunn said late Friday that Colt
never resumed production of the AR15 j
for civilian use.
Susan Whitmore of Handgun
Control Inc. said she was disappointed
that Colt’s new management may
reverse that decision.
“They’re putting profits over public
safety,” Whitmore said. “We don’t
want to see one more assault weapon
on the streets, and this is just going to
add to it.”
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