... s OVERSEAS NEWS Estonian group’s election objective THE Estonian P:ap:laxf' Front, emerging triumphant from its founding congress, pledged itself yesterday to fight parliameuurga elections across the Soviet Baltic republic. “We want to change the mechanism ...

... constitution ::l: Soviet law, the a %fii’ yesterday the three tic republics seeking independence issued g new cll;ai:lengfe to Moscow applying for observer styatus at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe. A senior Soviet official said Moscow ...

... STATES TO BECOME SOVIET REPUBLICS __ 4— : Three Parliaments Vote for Incorporation in U . S . SJR . fio The three Baltic countries—Lithuania , Latvia , and Estonia—yesterday decided to become Soviet Republics , and unite with Soviet Russia . ...

... ats of Soviet Republics ¦ ¦ lei . in addition , a Foreign Commissariat of liio Union of the Republics . This was a new victory of the Lenin-Stalin ' • • atiotial policy , and it reflected not only the development of each one of the Soviet RepublJcs ...

... of sov% of the republics, autonomous republics, regions and areas, which became autonomous in name only. The present hotbed of tension, Nagorny Karabakh, has for decades officially been an “autonomous region” within the Azerbaijan Republic, yet its governing ...

... COUNCIL OF WORKERS The Estonian, Lithuanian, and Latviant Parliaments met yesterday, and the decision in each case was the same—to become Socialist Soviet Republics and to ask for incorporation in the Soviet Union. Mass demonstrations in ...

... Lithuania legalises multi-party system LITHUANIA became the first Soviet republic to legalise a multi-party system yesterday in its most extreme act of defiance of Moscow to date. - The Baltic republic’s parliament threw out a constitutional article guaranteeing ...

... there, “of course, but they are no longer countries.. Today . they . are merely three of the =l5 republics of the Union .of Soviet Socialist Republics. They did not join as volunteers. = - The Baltic nations were simply re-absorbed in- 1940 by : the ...

... Moscow in response to a Soviet economic blockade aimed at forcing it to revoke its independence declaration. In Estonia, the parliament yesterday changed the republic’s name — from the Estonian Soviet Socialist Mc to the ...

... and the people.” Meanwhile. the Armenian Supreme Soviet has appealed to the Soviet parliament to take urgent steps to lift a onemonth-old economic blockade paralysing industry and transport in the republic, according to Pravda. The article did not say who ...

... this year. As Lithuania with itsnewlydechg:modpared for Supreme Soviet MW(« the pro- Pcfi Front in Riga said a rally begun yesterday afternoon. So far,heuld.ltwum and orderly. Several Estonian nationalists also rallied peacefully in Tallinn, Popular Front ...

... mweo?mw“m& f:fi in debate, to dissent, to practice authority of the Soviets of free competition. People’s I::rmg' and half- Foreign policy chsuwt‘:l;:-o;l Com “The - ‘l‘ilc.& as?:ng Soviet foreign mittee is submitting the followmn -war Wlod, i . e mast keep ...