WORLD : Lithuania Offers Compromise
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MOSCOW — Lithuania’s president said today that the Baltic nation will consider a temporary suspension of some of its pro-independence laws that have driven the Kremlin to impose a partial economic embargo.
President Vytautas Landsbergis agreed to the step in a letter to French and West German leaders who last week proposed that such a compromise would help start negotiations between the republic and the Kremlin.
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