| Show -- --- E The Salt Lake Tribune NATIONWORLD Friday All December 13 1991 Breaking Up May Be Hard to Do — Without Bloodshed John-Tho- By 1 r - Dalhburg LOS ANGELES TIMES It was James BakUS secretary of state who the MOSCOW 1 er gave voice to the nightmare seethat as of this week seems suddenly and horrifyingly plausi- Dario ri tile The former Union of Soviet So-- I I cialist Republics has reached critical mass Baker warned And what may result is something like the ethnic warfare in Yu- — with thousands of nu- I goslavia clear weapons tossed in for good present-da- Y measure 1 1 his country to break up along ethnic fault lines Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev cautioned and the Yugoslav conflict will look like a "simple joke" in Allow comparison For months now Russians have uneasily watched TV reports of the killings and brutal military operations in Yugoslavia feeling that they might be witnessing a dress rehearsal for their own future For more than three years Gorbachev and his team some of the brightest minds in the Soviet Union struggled and ultimately failed to resolve the murderous ' feud waged by the Armenians and the Azeris two neighboring Transcaucasian peoples "It will always be with us" a spondent executive of the official Tass news agency once said of the feud "It has become our Ulster" But since then other "Ulsters" have flared across the former Soviet Union And all this has happened when there is still an armature of centralized power a unified Soviet armed forces and a Ministry of the Interior What will happen when all this vanishes? The old Cold War standoff based on nuclear strategy known as "MAD" — Mutual Assured Destruction — never seemed more stable or attractive than it does now A few days ago a senior US government specialist on the Soviet Union said that US officials by and large had badly erred by overestimating the Soviet system's capacity for reform Once political and economic change became irreversible the gigantic country the result of centuries of relentless expansion by try's multifaceted crisis "We are extremely concerned over the situation resulting from the disintegration of the union" Shushkevich told Tass "Because of this and acting within the framework of rights granted to us by the constitution we came up with the initiative to sign the agreement on the establishment of a commonwealth of the three independent states" To reassure Secretary Baker and the rest of the world that the spectacular easing of military tensions in the world achieved under Gorbachev will continue the Slavic leaders have said they would form a single body to exercise command over the Soviet nuclear El Kazakhstan: Russians 38c10 42o Ukrainians 5414 Tatars "This split is going to play a highly damaging downright murderous role the near future "Another thing — the very idea of a federative state with a tight alliance between its constituent parts has now been destroyed" Baburin said "We can now talk about the final dismantling of the Soviet Union as an entity under international law This is an entirely new historical reality" For Yeltsin Ukrainian President Leonid 11 Kravchuk and Byelorussian Parliament Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich scrapping the centralized machinery of the Soviet Union and granting the republics genuine independence is the only way left out of the coun- in PRESS LONDON — Treatment of victims with intravenous magnesium appears to reduce the risk of death in the following three weeks by more than half according to a report in the British Medical Journal heart-attac- k The report published in today's issue was based on a review of seven trials that randomly assigned patients to either receive magnesium or a placebo within 12 hours of experiencing chest pains Some 38 percent of the 657 people who were given magnesium died over the next three weeks compared to 82 percent of the 644 people who did not get magnesium said Dr Koon K Teo Ile conducted the study while with the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda Md 0 -- pc4!:::: J ih:HH:'::': elfliir: J :::: 116- Russians 74 Abkhazians Azeris 51 t :fSii':?:iii-:-r- ::iimm:: :: 411144: 141t46 1ceilisazi:i:::: -- 17 f t::::!:::::::::::::: - ::::z:::::- Iran - ::::!:: :: - NAGORN ''' ' ° ' '':15::: Iran :::0i ' Afghan ' 4 i '' ' :::: NAKHHCHEVAN ' lati ' to Muslim Iran better eeducated an r '' Beats the Schwinn signs were multiple and unmistakable that the Gorbachev era — with its visions of glasnost perestroika and a reformed Soviet state — was fated to disappear soon from the scene "The star of Gorbachev has fallen" mused the Rev Gelb Yakunin a Russian Orthodox priest who was in a labor camp when Gorbachev came to power in March 1985 and now sits as a reformist member of Russia's legislature "Now he has only one task left — to quit the political stage with dignity" "He must heed the bell of history that now tolls for him" said Yakunin Its fateful peal could be heard all over this capital if one listened It came ringing through remarks from the country's No 1 spy master Yevgeny M Primakov as he lunched on baked sturgeon smothered in potatoes with a small group of foreign journalists "Our country is going through a serious transitional period" Primakov said referring to the agreement last Sunday by Russia Ukraine and Byelorussia to scrap the Soviet Union in favor of a of Independent Commonwealth States "What has already been signed and what as I see it may be slush-boun- d Dr Gerald Pohost chairman of the American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology said "It's an interesting idea that has gotten a lot of attention because there does ap- pear to be potential" But Pohost who also is the chief of cardiology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham said it was too soon to draw conclusions One large standardized trial is needed to confirm the findings he said in a telephone interview Pooling data from many studies can be problematic because each study varies slightly In this case each of the seven studies used different doses of magnesium for varying lengths of time The current review was done in collaboration with researchers at Oxford University 1 enlarged by other republics joining by the end of this week is a new phase in the development of our LI Knight-Ridde- society" A Gorbachev confidant Primakov was the president's personal envoy to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to try to avert the Persian Gulf war From what he said Thursday there was no doubt Primakov and the Soviet foreign intelligence agency that he heads are gearing age up for the "Intelligence I am sure must exist as an integral system" Primakov said "At the same time republics are within their rights to create any services they want to" In a building across from the Kremlin's high wall where Lenin's mistress Inessa Armand lived before her death in 1920 the country's Constitutional Compliance Committee now has its headquarters A toothless legal watchdog it is chaired by Sergei Alexeyev a notorious political weather vane On Monday Gorbachev blasted the legality of the commonwealth plan masterminded by Yeltsin Three days later however Alexeyev said that his committee has no right to question "acts of sovereign states" With the devolution of real power to the republics the Supreme Soviet has become an irrelevant talking shop that on some days ' UTHUANIA BYELORUSSIA UKRAINE MOLDAVIA rESTONIA t - 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