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Bush condemns Soviet crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres
ident Bush condemned the
Kremlin's lethal crackdown in
Lithuania Sunday and said it
“threatens to set back or per
haps even reverse” the new
U.S.-Soviet relationship.
He appealed to Soviet leaders
to stop using force to quell the
independence movement in the
Baltics.
"We condemn these acts
which could not help but affect
our relationship." said Bush
upon returning to the White
House from ('amp David.
“There is no justification for
the use of force against peace
ful and democratically elected
governments."
Bush said he couldn't say
whether he would still go to
Moscow Feb. 11-13 to sign a
nuclear arms treaty if the crack
down continued.
“The progress of reform in
the U.S.S.R. has been an essen
tial element in the improve
ment of U.S.-Soviet relations.”
said Bush. "Events like those
now taking place in the Baltic
states threaten to set back or
perhaps even reverse the pro
cess of reform which is so im
portant in the world and the
development of the new inter
national order."
But Bush said it would not
jeopardize Soviet support for
the United Nations resolution
demanding Iraq’s withdrawal
from Kuwait.
And Secretary of State James
Baker, after meeting with Brit
ish Prime Minister John Major
in Alconbury. England, said
the violence in the Baltics
should not affect the adminis
tration's Persian Gulf policy.
Bush said he did not know
whether President Mikhail Gor
bachev had ordered the .Soviet
tanks and paratroopers to storm
the Lithuanian television sta
tion in Vilnius, which resulted
in a reported loss of 13 lfves.
He said Gorbachev had assured
him in a telephone call on Fri
day that he wanted a peaceful
solution.
“I am concerned about the
internal affairs there. And (Gor
bachev) himself is very much
concerned about that. But let's
hope there will be a return to
peace, no more use of force and
that they can peacefully negoti
ate their differences." said
Bush.
Others in the administration
and Congress expressed con
cern about how the crackdown
might change warmer relations
between Moscow and the West.
"This crackdown certainly
jeopardizes the capacity of the
Soviet Union to continue to re
ceive support from ... Western
Europe and the United States."
White House Chief of Staff John
Sununu said on CBS-TV's
"Face the Nation."
And Senate Majority leader
George Mitchell said "This
brutality could seriously harm
recent progress made in U.S.
Soviet relations,"
"It is a sharp break with the
general pattern since Gorba
chev took power and it is deep
ly disturbing." said National
Security Adviser Brent Scow
croft.
"Violence is incompatible
with the solution to this prob
lem. it's incompatible with per
estroika and it's incompatible
with the move of U.S.-Soviet
relations toward partnership."
Scowcroft said on NBC-TV’s
"Meet the Press."
Scowcroft likened the action
to the Soviet tanks that crushed
the Hungarian revolution in
1956 — a crackdown that oc
curred during the Suez crisis,
just as the growing turmoil in
the Baltics has been overshad
owed by the showdown with
Saddam Hussein's army in Ku
wait.
Defense Secretary Dick
Cheney, who was skeptical two
years ago about Gorbachev’s
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chances for survival, said if (he
Soviet leader "has decided to
resort to force to maintain con
trol over the Baltic republics, to
let the tanks roll if you will,
that clearly sends a very terri
ble signal about the prospects
for future demoralization and
reform of the Soviet Union."
He was speaking on ABC
TV's "This Week with David
Brinkley."
The Baltic states, forced into
the Soviet Union against their
will in 1940. declared their in
dependence last year and
sparked secessionist moves in
Georgia and other Soviet repub
lics.
The United States, which
never recognized the forcible
incorporation of Lithuania, tri
via and Estonia into the
U.S.S.R.. has defended their
right to self-determination
while counseling both Baltic
and Kremlin leaders to show
restraint and negotiate a peace
ful outcome.
Bush and Gorbachev dis
cussed the Baltic situation just
last Friday in a telephone con
versation that dealt primarily
with the gulf crisis. Bush also
saw the Soviet ambassador
twice Friday.
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