P182 182 YLE TEKSTI-TV 19.01. 1717:51  NEWS IN ENGLISH WEDMESDAY Estonia votes on its language bill The parliament of Soviet Estonia has adopted bz absolute majority a new language law according to which all employees in public services will have to be able to speak Estonian within the next four years. Until now, Russian has been the only official language in the countr8 where 4O per cent of the population are of other than Estonian origin and only speak Russian. The Estonian Communist party reform branch considers the language a ke8 to the survivaÖ of Estonian culture. Soviet withdrawals 183 INDEX 180