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World & Nation lay, September 2, 1991 the Battalion Page9 Soviet leader will continue to push reforms Gorbachev gives Baltics autonomy MOSCOW (AP) — President Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Sunday promised independence lothe Baltic republics, but said he would not re sign or retreat from the battle to maintain the soviet Union as a country. If independence “is the final wish and in- lention of the people" of the Baltics, “then I ihink we must agree to it," Gorbachev said in in interview on Soviet television and the Cable 'Jews Network. "I will not resign now," he said. "That would be immoral." Gorbachev's statement on the Baltics met with joy in Lithuania. "I am glad that he has said this. This is the isginning of a new period in history," Lithua- lian President Vytautas Landsbergis told an es- mated 20,000 people at a victory rally in Vil nius. "Now there must be concrete talks on the withdrawal of Soviet troops," added Landsber- ps, holding a bouquet of pink roses and white iamations. Gorbachev spoke after meeting for 75 min- ites in the Kremlin with British Prime Minister ;ohn Major, the first Western leader to visit Moscow since last month's attempted coup by iard-liners. "Now is the time for the West to support is," Gorbachev told Major, according to an aide in the British leader. Major also met with Russian President Boris I Yeltsin, who returned to Moscow on Sunday after discussions with Estonian and Latvian leaders about maintaining economic ties among former Soviet republics. Despite their long rivalry, both Yeltsin and Gorbachev have been trying to prevent the union from evaporating in the power vacuum that has followed the Aug. 18-21 coup and the subsequent suspension of the Communist Par ty- Gorbachev said in the TV interview that during a meeting earlier Sunday, 11 of the 15 republics agreed to maintain some form of union, although its exact shape is yet to be worked out. Those not represented apparently were the Baltics and Moldavia. "As far as economic cooperation, then here there is a large degree of agreement from all 15 republics," Gorbachev said. "Now, at this very difficult stage when deci sions must be taken that will define whether to preserve the course which we started in 1985, I cannot allow myself as a person, as a citizen, to leave," Gorbachev said, when asked if he would resign. Gorbachev told the Supreme Soviet legisla ture after the coup that he would step down if the union were dissolved. He reiterated Sunday that "there is one condition" for his remaining in office: "The union." Gorbachev said the issue of Baltic indepen dence was on the agenda for this week's session of the 2,250-member Congress of People's Deputies. The Congress is the country's highest leg islative body, but since its creation two years ago it has met only four times, to consider con stitutional apaendments and other critical mat ters. From among its members, the Congress elects the 542-member Supreme Soviet, which meets regularly and passes most of the coun try's laws. Gorbachev did not make clear in the TV in terview whether he has fully dropped his insis tence that the Baltic republics follow the com plex constitutional process for secession. That process could involve a waiting period of five years or more, and billions of dollars in com pensation for Soviet investments. He said his concept of a reformed union "opens the possibility for each republic, each nation, to make use of its constitutional right to self-determination. And in connection with that, if that is the final wish and intention of the people of these (Baltic) republics, then I think we must agree to it." Gorbachev became emotional only when discussing the health of his wife, Raisa, who he said had a "very bad bout" during their three days under house arrest in the coup. 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But for September and Octo ber, the White House will try to build pressure on Congress to act on a series of stalled domestic ini tiatives, from school reforms and a crime package to a national energy strategy and a $105 billion high way bill. "We're really looking forward to the fall ... trying to figure out how best to get congressional ac tion on some of our programs," Bush said after the first of two re cent strategy sessions with domes tic advisers at his summer home here. Bush and his lieutenants own up to frustration at their failure to get much of this legislation passed before now. "Congress, contrary to their rhetoric, doesn't seem to have the interest in moving the domestic agenda forward," said deputy White House chief of staff Andrew Card. "It is frustrating." Democrats in turn accuse Bush of being consumed with his avowed first interest, foreign af fairs. 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