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The Battalion
Monday, March 26,
Lithuanian leaders
accused of plotting
Communists’ arrest
MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Soviet military
commander on Sunday escalated the Kremlin’s
war of words with Lithuania, accusing the repub
lic’s independence leaders of plotting to arrest
Communists and send them to prison camps.
The small Baltic republic was quiet Sunday, be
lying a drumbeat of reports in Moscow-based
media characterizing a territory heading either
toward anarchy or political repression. Soviet
tanks rolled through the capital Vilnius in a show
of force Saturday.
Some people in Vilnius went to markets and
churches on Sunday but many stayed indoors be
cause of damp Weather. Tne republic’s legis
lature took a rare day off.
There was no indication the Soviet army was
trying to round up hundreds of Lithuanians who
deserted and returned home after independence
was declared March 11. A deadline of Saturday
had been set for their return.
For days, as President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
and other Moscow officials have squeezed the de
fiant Baltic state, official media reports have crit
icized a draft bill in Lithuania’s new Parliament
that they say could mean imprisonment for those
who speak out against independence.
Gen. Valentin I. Varennikov, commander of
Soviet ground forces, said workers he met with at
a Vilnius electronics factory were “convinced that
Sajudis is trying to create in the republic a real
dictatorship.”
Sajudis is the grassroots political movement
that has pressed for Lithuanian independence
from the Soviet Union. Its candidates won an ab
solute majority in the Parliament that declared
independence, and election commission officials
said Sunday it also won a sizeable majority in vot
ing Saturday for the Vilnius city council.
But Varennikov charged Sajudis, headed by
Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, is
conducting an “open psychological war against
dissidents.”
“In conditions of this ‘democracy,’ many peo
ple are frightened,” he said in an interview
printed Sunday by the newspaper Sovietsi!
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Rossiya, the official newspaper of Lithuania f
ant neighbor, the Russian republic.
“And when a law is adopted prohibiting
icism of the government, you can expect an
Varennikov said.
Asked by the paper whether he meant Csj
munists who remained loyal to Moscow coult
arrested, he replied:
“All Communists, 1 think. They already!
divided the party, now it remains to send Coj
munists to prison camps or jails.”
A commentary by the official Soviet tiaj
agency Tass late Saturday also bitterly criticsj
the proposed legislation, saying it was intencj
to keep Sajudis in power.
“What Sajudis adherents are seeking lord
is not people’s power but the power they it
aged to secure by sweet verbiage about theM
dom of speech and will, and about democnl
and f uture prosperity,” Tass analyst Anatoly.!
dinsky said.
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