Bush-Gorbachev Summit Meeting
Soviet Black Berets viciously attacked and killed Lithuanian custom officers and border guards on the first day of Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit to Stockholm to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.
And on Aug. 1, with the entire world watching the final news conference of the summit, they again attacked and killed six more unarmed Lithuanian custom officials in an ugly incident on the Byelorussian-Lithuanian border.
How can we ever accept Gorbachev’s leadership of the Soviet Union when he can’t control a handful of terrorists in his own military ranks who willfully disobey him and are intent on humiliating him?
Unless Gorbachev immediately withdraws the rebellious Black Berets from Lithuania, the world will forever wonder who’s really in charge over there.
JOE BRAZAN SR.
Chino Hills
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