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Renegade 'Black Beret' Troops Add Sparks to Latvia Tinderbox : Baltics: They were once local policemen. With emerging democracy they sided with the Kremlin and Communists and became outcasts.

February 4, 1991 | ELIZABETH SHOGREN, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Many of them had patrolled together for years as Latvia's "boys in blue," but two weeks ago they fired Kalashnikov automatic rifles at one another in a fierce 90-minute gun battle in central Riga. Troops from the "black berets" sprayed the headquarters of the Latvian Interior Ministry and surrounding areas with rounds of automatic weapon fire, took over the building and shot dead two policemen.

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Renegade 'Black Beret' Troops Add Sparks to Latvia Tinderbox : Baltics: They were once local policemen. With emerging democracy they sided with the Kremlin and Communists and became outcasts.

February 4, 1991 | ELIZABETH SHOGREN, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Many of them had patrolled together for years as Latvia's "boys in blue," but two weeks ago they fired Kalashnikov automatic rifles at one another in a fierce 90-minute gun battle in central Riga. Troops from the "black berets" sprayed the headquarters of the Latvian Interior Ministry and surrounding areas with rounds of automatic weapon fire, took over the building and shot dead two policemen.

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