WORLD : Lithuanians to Meet Politburo
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MOSCOW — President Mikhail S. Gorbachev summoned leaders of the rebellious Lithuanian Communist Party to an unprecedented meeting with the Soviet Politburo on Thursday.
The move was a sign of Kremlin alarm at the Lithuanian party’s plans to break with Moscow.
Algis Zhukas, an aide to party leader Algirdas Brazaukas, said all members of the republic’s party bureau had been called to a regular session of the 11-member Politburo, the supreme political authority in the Soviet Union.
Zhukas said that he could not say for sure what would be discussed but that he assumed that a proposal to split the Lithuanian Communist Party from Moscow is one reason for the invitation.
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