WORLD : Soviet Georgia Defies Kremlin
<i> From Times wire services </i>
MOSCOW —
Once-independent Soviet Georgia, in a new challenge to the Kremlin from the restless outlying republics, has formally proclaimed its right to secede from the Soviet Union, Georgian reporters in Tbilisi said today.
The reporters said the republican Parliament voted Sunday to insert a new clause in the Georgian constitution on “the holy and inviolable right” of secession from the nominally federal Soviet state.
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