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Reading an official government statement, he said Ma/hiekiai refinery director Bronius Vainoras confirmed the single pipeline feeding the plant from the Russian city of Polotsk had been shut down. The statement said a message read earlier by telephone to Vainoras said: “In accordance with the resolution of the Council of Ministers, we arc halting pumping of crude oil to your refinery.” There was no immediate word on whether natural gas supplies also had been disrupted. The move came just hours after Soviet Deputy Oil and Gas Minister Aklim Mukhamed/.yanov told the Soviet new s agency Tassthat reports of an energy cutoff to Lithuania “are completely groundless.” He said the Soviet Council of Ministers issued no instructions to slop the flow. Lithuania is entirely dependent on the So viet Union for all oil and gas, and petroleum products are the Soviet Union’s most profitable export. Sales of gasoline to Lithuanian motorists have tripled this week as residents reacted to Gorbachev’s threat with panic buying, but slocks were adequate and no rationing was antici pated, Lithuania’s energy minister, Leonas Asmantas, said before the shutdow n Wednes day. The Supreme Council refused Wednesday to bow to Gorbachev’s ultimatum that it re scind independence-oriented law s, but offered to pass no more such measures if the Kremlin starts immediate talks. After the Supreme Council legislature ap proved an official response to Gorbachev, Lithu anian President Vytautas Landsbergis warned Gorbachev that an embargo of such supplies would hurt other republics as well as Lithuania. “An economic blockade would influence Latvia, Estonia and the Kaliningrad region of Russia,' Landsbergis was quoted as telling a news conlerence. “ I hat would resemble an angry man beat ing himself,'' f duardas Pouismskas of Lithu aman TV quoted Landsbergis as saying. But anticipating a possible Soviet embargo. the Supreme Council urged Lithuanian lacio riesand consumers to “prepare themselves |0 spiritual endurance and strict economy on al consumption." It did not announce specific conservation measures. At the end of two days of sometimes heatet debate, the Supreme Council drafted a letter t( Gorbachev promising that if talks began be fort May Lit would not pass any more measures u implement its March 11 declaration of mdc pendcncc. That offer represented an effort to compro mise with Moscow, but was unlikely to bt accepted by the Soviet leadership. In their resolution - titled “On the Expan sion of Relations Between the Republic oi Lithuania and die U.S.S.R.” -- membersoftht Supreme Council reaffirmed their declaratior of independence, and also appealed to Gor bachcv not to use violence against Lithuanian.' or impose the economic sanctions he threat ened on Friday. Gorbachev said that unless Lithuania rolled back several law s supporting the declaration ol independence, he would impose an embargo on key supplies to the small Baltic republic ol 3.8 million people. In Washington, Secretary of State James Baker III said action by Moscow against Lithu ania could doom commercial relations between the Soviet Union and the United Slates. “It’s very difficult to sec some of the com mercial aspects of our relationship surviving the use of force or cocrc ion ’ ’ against L ithuama, Baker said. In a separate letter to Gorbachev, the Lithu anian legislature expressed “regrets on the position and methods chosen by the U.S.S.R.” “On our part, as earlier, we arc prepared to discuss any issues, taking into consideration all justified interests of the Soviet Union, fore most those of its citizens and those of a strate gic nature,“ the letter said. Legislators said they were forming a dele gation led by Bronius Ku/mickas, vice presi dent of the Supreme Council, to trav el to Moscow for possible talks. A previous delegation met with Gorbachev adviser Alexander Yakovlev but made no headway toward settling the dis pute. Lithuania picked up support Wednesday from neighboring Poland, with the Solidarity delegation to the Polish parliament adopting a resolution expressing concern over the ‘ ‘grow ing pressure” being exerted by Moscow. The delegation also suggested Warsaw as sist in negotiations between the republic and the Kremlin. Court gives judges power to order increased taxes for desegregation WASHINGTON - Federal judges may or der local officials to raise property taxes to pay for the racial desegregation of public schools, the Supreme Court said Wednesday. Although ruling unanimously in a Kansas C ity. Mo., case that judges themselves gener ally may not impose such tax increases, the court voted 5-4 in empowering judges to tell school officials to do so. I he justices said such orders even take precedence over state laws imposing limits on school property taxes. v Civil rights forces praised the decision. 1 hrough the last three decades, the court has given federal judges sweeping power to lake whatever steps necessary to end public school segregation — including forced busing of stu dents, teacher reassignments, and even the partial merger of separate sch<x>l districts. But never had the court authorized judges to bring about higher taxes to pay for various desegregation plans. Justice Byron White wrote for the court. He said that local officials should be allowed to devise their own solutions, but that Clark could have lorced officials to raise taxes to pay for the desegregation plan - "magnet schools" and -260 million worth of renovations -- he ordered. Missoun law limits property taxes, but While Sirr ,ark cou,d ordcr Kansas City school ofhcials to ignore that law. A local government with taxing authority may be ordered to levy taxes in excess of the limit set by state statute where there is reason based in the Consutution for not observing the statutory limitation," White said * He was joined by Justices William Brennan, Pauf StcverfarShal' Hmy B,ackmun and Johr> Chief Justice William Rchnquist and Jus tices Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor and Antonin Scalia dissented. Writing for the four, Kennedy said, “To day’s casual embrace of taxation imposed by the unclcctcd, life-tenured federal judiciary disregards fundamental precepts lor the demo cratic control of public institutions. ’’ Saying there is no real distinction between a judge directly imposing a tax and “command ing the school district to impose’’ it, Kennedy said the ruling might be used to justify ordering higher taxes to pay for prisons, hospitals or a civil rights lawsuit award against acity govern ment. Nebraskan Editor Amy Edwards, 472-17M> Managing Editor Ryan Steevss Assoc News Editors Lisa Donovan Eric Plannsr Genera! Manager Dan Shattll Production Manage' Katherine Pollcky Advertising Manager Jon Daehnke Sales Manager Kerry Jeffries Publications Board Chairman Bill Vobejda, 436-W9-) Professional Adv ser Don Walton, 473-7Jin The Daily Nebraskan(USPS 144 080) is puW'*n*’t£ the UNL Publications Board. 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