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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
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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.
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Gorbachev and the leaders of 10 republ
ics, including Russia's Boris Yeltsin, wht
emerged as his governing partner afte
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a power and the Communist Party '
collapsed.
it After lawmakers gave their approval to
the measures, Gorbachev nodded and <
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Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, smiled 1
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Gorbachev has told Baltic representa
uves ne wouia recognize ineir maepens
dence by decree after the session. J
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diplomatic recognition from the United 1
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/ win official Kremlin acceptance.
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r trouble, Latvian deputy Yuri Boyars said,
t he instructed his delegation to cast ballots i
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Soviet affair, but appeared to welcor
jrospects for an orderly transition
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"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.
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proved a resolution pledging to respect
"the declarations of sovereignty and acts
. ? of independence taken by the republics."
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have declared their independence.
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to transfer its power to a smaller, reconstie
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