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Lithuania’s gas supply slashed
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. - The Krem
lin tightened its economic squeeze
Thursday on Lithuania by shutting
off more than 80 percent of the Baltic
republic’s gas supply following a
complete cutoff of oil the previous
night.
The independence-minded repub
lic promptly ordered that the first to
lose their energy supplies will be Soviet
military bases and factories run by
Moscow, according to the parliament’s
press office.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
started his most drastic attempt to
force Lithuania to retreat from its
March 11 declaration of independ
ence late Wednesday when a pipeline
to Lithuania’s only oil refinery was
shut off.
Lithuanian Energy Minister Leo
nas Asmantas ordered immediate
gasoline rationing of 30 liters per
month for private cars, according to
Daina Kalendra of the parliamentary
press office.
“Where we can give up the use of
gas, gasoline, any heating or lighting,
let us do this, and then we will be able
to survive longer and, maybe, we will
not be intimidated by these sanctions,”
government spokesman Ccslovas
Jursenas said on Lithuanian radio.
Lithuania, forcibly incorporated
into the Soviet Union in 1940, is
entirely dependent on Moscow for its
oil and gas, which it receives at bc
low-market prices.
Soviet Foreign Ministry spokes
man Vadim Perfilicv told reporters
Thursday that Moscow “might have
some other restrictions” to impose
on Lithuania, but he refused to elabo
rate.
In Key Largo, Fla., President Bush
and visiting French President Fran
cois Mitterrand said they were both
“deeply disturbed” by the Kremlin’s
recent steps regarding Lithuania. Bush
told reporters he was “considering
appropriate measures to be taken in
light of Soviet actions.”
Lithuanian Prime Minister Kaz
imiera Prunskicne was in Norway to
see about contracting for expensive
Western oil and seeking foreign aid
to pay for it.
Officials told a news conference
Thursday night other supplies were
being cut as well, but refused to tell
reporters what they were, Kalendra
said.
Lithuania normally produces its
own electricity at a nuclear power
plant at Ignalina, but it is shut for
repairs. Kalendra said the republic
has experienced no electricity short
age, and other plants are operating,
including a hydroelectric plant near
Kaunas.
Lithuania has virtually no foreign
currency. Asmantas said the republic
needs about 500,()(X) tons of oil a
month - about S55 million worth at
world prices.
Prunskicne acknowledged the
Soviet navy could easily blockade
Lithuania’s harbors, but said that would
be “unthinkable.”
Lithuanian President Vytautas
Landsbcrgis said Thursday that Lithu
ania will survive on its reserves while
waiting for Western help.
“We have no other way. We are
waiting from the East for direct nego
tiations and from the West for more .
.. support,” he said in a TV interview
with Cable News Network, broadcast
from Vilnius.
Landsbcrgis again urged major
Western democracies to come to Lithu
ania’s aid, adding Lithuania already
received expressions and promises of
support from Czechoslovakia, Ice
land, France, Italy, some Scandinavian
countries and its fellow Baltic states
Estonia and Latvia.
Dainis Ivans, president of the Lat
vian People’s Front, said he views the
fuel crunch on Lithuania as political
pressure on Latvia as well. Both Lat
via and Estonia arc following Lithu
ania’s footsteps in pushing for inde
pendence.
Gorbachev met in the Kremlin
Thursday with leaders of Latvia and
Estonia and offered both republics
“special status” in the Soviet Union
if they drop their attempts to follow
Lithuania into independence, said
Raymond Lochmclis of the Latvian
Popular Front and other offic ials pres
ent.
The How of natural gas was shut
off in three pipelines -- two from
Latvia and one from Minsk in Byelo
russia — cutting supplies to Lithuania
by more than 80 percent, officials of
Lithuania’s parliament, the Supreme
Council, said.
Kidnappers postpone release indefinitely
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Pro-Iranian
kidnappers said Thursday they post
poned indefinitely the release of an
American hostage because the United
States refused to send a senior State
Department official to Syria.
The Islamic Jihad for the Libera
tion of Palestine in a lengthy state
ment repeated its demand that John
Kelly, U.S. assistant secretary of state
for Near Eastern affairs, fly to Damas
i
cus.
It also renewed threats to attack
jetliners and airports used to transport
thousands of Soviet Jewish emigrants
to Israel. Much of the 500-word
communique was devoted to the rise
in Jewish emigrants, who Arab lead
ers say could strengthen Israel and
displace Palestinians from the occu
pied territories.
In Damascus, Syrian Foreign
Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said his
government has “been exerting a great
deal of influence” to secure the hos
tage release by Sunday. He would not
elaborate.
President Bush said the United
States has “been disappointed be
fore” by dashed hopes for the release
of American hostages and repeated
that he will not meet the demands of
kidnappers.
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UNL to return Omaha remains
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln and the Omaha Indian tribe
have reached an agreement on the
return of skeletal remains of 92
Omaha ancestors and 1,300 arti
facts.
The artifacts and bones have
been in the University of Nebraska
State Museum since 1930. They
were uncovered then by construc
tion crews and archaeologists near
Homer, 14 miles south of Sioux
City, Iowa.
Tribal elders said Thursday that
the bones will be reburied, and the
tribe hopes to build a museum on
its reservation at Macy to house the
artifacts, which include weaponry,
hunting items, face paints and
cosmetics and copper and brass
jewelry.
The university gave documents
to Omaha tribal elders Thursday
confirming transfer of the skeletal
remains and artifacts. Elders per
formed a special ceremony with
the bones, using a cedar tree, which
is sacred to the tribe.
“I feel happy. I am rejoicing
right now,” said Doran Morris,
tribal chairman.
John Yost, vice chancellor for
research and graduate study at UNL,
said a unique spirit of cooperation
enabled the university to return the
remains so quickly.
Yost said the passage of LB 340
by the 1989 Legislature was an
important catalyst for returning the
remains. LB340 requires the state
to return all reasonably identifi
able Indian skeletal remains and
burial goods for reburial.
The quickness of UNL’s action
contrasts sharply with the long
drawn-out effort of the Pawnee Tribe
to retrieve skeletal remains and
artiifacts from the Nebraska State
Historical Society. University and
tribal officials met on Sept. 14 and
by Nov. 11 had reached prelimi
nary agreement on the return.
Morris said the remains and
artifacts were left in Homer after a
smallpox epidemic devastated the
tribe in the late 1700s and early
1800s. Tribal elder Clifford Wolfe
Sr. said the tribe then was told by
medicine men to move from the
site as a way of curing the sickness.
"Today is a momentous mo
ment for me," Morris said before
the cedar ceremony at Nebraska
Hall on the UNL City Campus.
"We are losing our language. What
cultures we have left, we are trying
to keep them. My people were
changing so fast we were losing
our wayoflifc."
He said the university will store
the relics for the tribe, which
numbers 5,000 members, until a
museum can be built. The bones
will be reinterred.
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