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Soviets By The Associated Press Soviet lawmakers, bowing to Mikhail Gorbachev's will, voted Thursday to end seven decades of Kremlin rule and set up an interim government to be dominated by newly sovereign republics. The 1,900-member Congress of People's Deputies overwhelmingly endorsed the plan to salvage some form of union for the huge but economically troubled country, which is disintegrating in the wake of this past month's failed coup by nara-iiners. Even Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state, did not escape the upheaval. Before the Congress adjourned, it was proposed that Lenin's body be removed from its stately mausoleum in Red Square and reburied in Leningrad beside his mother. The Congress effectively put itself out of business, and Lenin's fate is to be taken up by a smaller legislature set up Coming to a neuis stand pi near you SAFE SE is like Safe Bi Make Sure Yc With Heir TRI ( BICYCI CENTE 513 12th RESERVE YOl to tran under the restructuring plan. The plan ? approved 1,682 to 43 was rammed through the Congress by forceful and commanding Gorbachev, whi squelched debate and refused to accep proposals from the chamber. At one point, he threatened to close th< session and suggested changing the consti tution to eliminate the need for two-third approval. "I will not yield the microphone to any one from the floor!" Gorbachev said a some deputies tried to speak. "Eithe make a decision or not. That's all!" Many lawmakers believed if they ha< not approved the measures, Gorbachev would simply have implemented them ty decree. ?-r?i A i tne restructuring ptan was iorgea 0} Gorbachev and the leaders of 10 republ ics, including Russia's Boris Yeltsin, wht emerged as his governing partner afte leading nationwide resistance to las ARMY - NAVY < 1621 Main St. (only 4 blocks for car iY /V icycling :iu're Covered m Street 794-236 OFFICERS' T OST EXCITING [I'LL SPEND AL 14 September 1991 CAPTAIN VIC HOLMAN 777-6542 Build your self-confidence in thi Army ROTC elective. We'll get yoi classroom and into adventure. Open to all freshmen and sc without obligation. Class size is register today. THE SMARTEST COLLI COURSE YOU CAN TAR sfer pow month's abortive coup. I In the wake of the takeover, central , a power and the Communist Party ' collapsed. it After lawmakers gave their approval to the measures, Gorbachev nodded and < e clapped. Yeltsin, seated next to him in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, smiled 1 s broadly. * Gorbachev has told Baltic representa uves ne wouia recognize ineir maepens dence by decree after the session. J r Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have won J diplomatic recognition from the United 1 \ States and most of Europe. v But with Gorbachev's decree, they * / would become the first breakaway Soviet J states to have their independence drives / win official Kremlin acceptance. When it appeared today parts of the re- t ) structuring proposal were running into ( r trouble, Latvian deputy Yuri Boyars said, t he instructed his delegation to cast ballots i Everyone's doin? it! Dver 29,000 people are doing reading The Gamecock that i oin the cool ones and do it t< storH Mm Eli r We've i thei >3 ^ RAINING CORPS . - ' ? i ' % ' i > ' % % A * '' ii ... : ,U .' - v-.-..- > > m. ti FEW HOURS vimv ill W UIk. is exciting u out of the >phomores limited so GE L er to n for it The Latvians usually do not vote [he Congress because they consider th< republic independent. In Washington, the White Hou: ermed the lawmakers' actions an intem Soviet affair, but appeared to welcor jrospects for an orderly transition x>wer "We've said all along, as long as th continue on the reform path in both ec lomics and politics, as long as they arri it decisions in a peaceful manner thai nutually acceptable to the center and t epublics, the final outcome is somethii hat they have to decide for themselves laid deputy White House press secreta toman Popadiuk. The Bush administration has previous expressed concern about keeping centi control over the Soviet nuclear arsenal. Some details of the Soviet plan r nained unclear, but under it: ^ f?ecialltyd' TOT" i (fa Power Up , ^ Video Gam We're located only mil Take your mind on clt i (Ashland Par cggSRip I B COCK-S 0 MA 0 Jnr 0 IF ITS GARN, ty a PARKLAND PIAZA epublics in Congress agreed to create a new execusir tive body to run the country that will be made up of Gorbachev and the leaders of se the republics, tal ne Deputies eliminated the vice presidency 0f and formed a second body including Gorbachev and representatives of the republics that will coordinate economic policy Q_ and the transition to a market economy. VG Lawmakers also overwhelmingly aphe proved a resolution pledging to respect "the declarations of sovereignty and acts . ? of independence taken by the republics." '' All but five of the 15 Soviet republics have declared their independence. 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