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DATE: FRIDAY, March 9, 1990                   TAG: 9003092376
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/2   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: MOSCOW                                LENGTH: Short

LITHUANIAN SECESSION VOTE SET FOR SUNDAY

Lithuanian nationalists said today that their republic's legislature still plans to vote this weekend on whether to secede from the Soviet Union, contradicting an early report that the move had been postponed.

Lionginas Vasilyauskas, spokesman for the Sajudis people's movement, said the Supreme Soviet legislature will vote on a declaration of independence Sunday.

A vote on a proclamation of independence would bring the Baltic republic into conflict with the Kremlin. President Mikhail Gorbachev had warned this week that Lithuania would own the central government about $34 billion in convertible currency for investments made in the 50 years since the Kremlin absorbed the once-independent state.

- Associated Press 


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