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National Geographic : 1990 Nov
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movement. As in the other Baltic capitals, young, media-wise Americans of Baltic back ground had joined the movement, mostly in public relations, dealing with the press and coordinating information flow between Tal linn, Riga, and Vilnius. A journalist who hooked into this system could cover the three republics in the English language without missing any vital information. The Popular Front of Latvia ran on coffee and adrenaline, its offices as tense and crowded as a railroad station in which every one is late for the only train. "There is no time for speculation," said Front member Janis Skapars. He covered his From ingots to circuit boards, Baltic workers do it all. Many factories, like the Latvian steel works at Liepaja, were built in the post-Stalin era of rapid industrialization. The VEF electron ics plant in Riga (above) dates from the inter war years, when the republics, then free, took long strides on their own toward economic development. Latvia itself was at one time one of Europe's more prosperous nations. Today entrepreneurs like Visvaldas Dubauskas a Vilnius innkeeper with a new satellite dish -represent the vanguard of a return to private enterprise. The Baltic Nations
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