26 JANUARY 1991, page 18

Is This Democracy?

Anne McElvoy sees the fall of Lothar de Maiziere as an insult to all east Germans Berlin YOU MAY not remember Lothar de Maiziere. Chancellor Kohl, his Christian Democrats and......

The Baltic Gulf

Stephen Handelman reports on the futile Soviet repression of small republics Vilnius IT MAY be the saddest sight we have seen so far this year. The Lithuanian parlia- ment, a......