Communist Party control of this, the second-largest Soviet republic, has been shaken by rising nationalism and coal miners' unrest.

Croatia, Yugoslavia's second-largest republic, which favors creating a loose confederation of independent states, is considered likely to endorse the Slovenian proposal.

A12 Political unrest spreads to the second-largest ex-Soviet republic.

The second-largest republic won't be among them.

The President of Kazakhstan, the second-largest Soviet republic, was in Washington last week seeking capital.

Voters in Yugoslavia's second-largest republic, Croatia, went to the polls today in the second round of free parliamentary elections that could lead to a secessionist movement.

Nationalists in the second-largest Soviet republic, the Ukraine, announced plans today to form a formal opposition party to press their demands for greater independence from Moscow.

He said that even a looser commonwealth would probably be doomed without Ukraine, the second-largest republic, which last weekend voted to become independent.

The Parliament of the Ukraine, the Soviet Union's second-largest republic, ordered home its party delegates who also serve in the legislature.

The second-largest republic, Croatia, and the central republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina have declared support for the program, the press agency said.