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World and nation Tuesday, January 22, 1991 The Battalion Enroll Now Cedar Studies Soviet crackdown Latviaforms home guard, boosts defense RIGA, U.S.S.R. (AP) — Latvia’s parliament voted Monday to form a volunteer home guard and authori ties bolstered defenses at public buildings after Soviet commandos staged a pre-dawn assault that killed five people and wounded 10. Parliamentarian Anatoly Denisov told a news conference in Moscow that Soviet President Mikhail Gorba chev may declare presidential rule in Latvia after meetings with leaders of the Baltic republics. Supporters of Latvia’s pro-inde pendence government reinforced concrete barricades that protect the President Bush (left) urged So viet president Mikhail Gorba chev (right) to resist the use of violence in Latvia. front of the parliament in Riga, the capital. They propped sandbags in front of the building’s windows. Parliament, meeting in emer gency session, approved a decree calling on the government to estab lish a self-defense unit of draft-age volunteers. The decree takes effect immediately. It was uncertain whether the unit would resemble the ragtag group that holed up in the parliament building of the neighboring Baltic republic of Lithuania following a Jan. 13 assault on a broadcast station there. Fourteen people were killed in that attack. U.S. officials have been critical of the crackdown in the Baltics. Speak ing to reporters in Washington, President Bush said Monday, “I would again appeal to the Soviet leaders to resist using force.” The United States has never rec ognized the forcible incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union in 1940. The Baltic republics were independent states between the two world wars. The Kremlin has been pressuring the Baltics to nullify the indepen dence declarations passed last year by their democratically elected par liaments. Pro-Soviet factions in the republics have urged direct rule by Gorbachev. Gorbachev abandons democracy, Yeltsin says MOSGOW (AP) — Russian presi dent Boris Yeltsin accused Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday of abandon ing democracy, and called for an in vestigation of the defense and inte rior ministers for the military crackdown in the Baltic republics. Yeltsin, a frequent Gorbachev critic, told the Supreme Soviet legis lature of his Russian federation that the Kremlin had veered from its peaceful course in favor of “violence and pressure.” Gorbachev has amassed so much power, he said, “you can’t speak about any democracy.” Yeltsin spoke one day after partic ipants opposing Gorbachev chanted “resign” in the largest political rally in Moscow in at least a year. Many accused Gorbachev, the 1990 Nobel peace prize winner, of responsibility for the army attack in Lithuania on Jan. 13 in which 14 people died. More deaths occurred Sunday night in Riga, capital of neighboring Latvia, when elite Soviet interior ministry troops attacked the repub lic’s Interior Ministry building, kill ing five people and wounding 10. Yeltsin and Gorbachev have clashed frequently on economic is sues, but in recent days the Russian leader has expanded his criticism to include the Kremlin’s policy on eth nic conflicts. The shadowy, self-styled commit tees are striving to replace constitu tional organs, Yeltsin said. U.S. planes provide cover for rescuers saving pilot DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In a daring dash into enemy territory, a U.S. Air Force rescue mission plucked a downed Navy pilot from the Iraqi desert Monday and flew him back to safety, military officials said. An Air Force search-and-res- cue helicopter picked up the A-6 “Intruder” pilot shortly after two A-10 ground support bombers strafed an Iraqi army truck headed straight toward the air man, Air Force officers said. “We could not allow him (the truck) to be there,” said Capt. Randy Goff, one of the A-10 “Warthog” pilots. “We couldn’t take the risk.” Military officials did not re lease the identity of the rescued flyer. They said he ejected into a fea tureless expanse of the desert af ter being hit by ground fire while taking part in the bombing of Iraq. Goff, 26, from Jackson, Ohio, and Capt. Paul Johnson, 32, of Dresden, Tenn., members of the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing from Myrtle Beach, S.C., spent more than eight hours in the air, re fueling four times as they located the Navy pilot around midday and talked to him over the radio. A plan was formed to bring in the rescue helicopter. 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