The Soviet masses have just about ruined the Labor Day weekend for cartographers who are busting to redraw their maps to reflect the breakaway of Soviet republics.
At Rand McNally, says USA Today, its new Cosmopolitan World Atlas was actually rolling on the presses when the coup started. Someone had the enviable assignment of shouting - for real - "Stop the presses!"At Replogle Globes Inc., workers are scratching off the "SSR" - for Soviet Socialist Republic - after the names of Baltic states.
The big winner is National Geographic, which gambled in March 1990 on its most recent map of the Soviet Union and printed the Baltic states without the SSR and in different colors.