NID: USSR: BALTIC PARTIES PRESSING AHEAD

Approved for Release: 2019/10/29 C06826771 USSR: Baltic Parties Pressing Ahead Lasr month's Central Committee broadside against Baltic nationalism and the prospect of the coming nationalities plenum have not deterred the Baltic republics' parties from pursuing an independent course even though all three have renounced secession. Since the Central Committee's sharp attack, the Latvian and Estonian parties have submittcd draft party programs that advocate greater republic party autonomy from Mosco...