Latvian Front Votes for Full Independence

RIGA, Soviet Union — Members of a Latvian nationalist movement voted Sunday to change their goal from local autonomy to outright independence from Moscow.

Delegates at the second annual congress of the People’s Front of Latvia approved the change in a 126-point program aimed at setting the stage for a declaration of independence at some unspecified future date. Leaders of the front said that only one of the 1,074 delegates voted against the platform.

The program is designed to build an independent economy and social structure in Latvia before the republic secedes. It calls for human rights, competing political parties and private business in a free-market economy.