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...rebel guardsmen were reported killed in a clash with republic troops . . . The seizure of power in Tadzhikistan by Rakhman Nabiev, a hard-line former Communist Party chief, prompted thousands of people to defy a newly imposed state of emergency. Crying "Communist coup!," protesters vowed to resist Nabiev's administration . . . Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement calling for a cease-fire and negotiations to end their dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, but the fighting continued. Among those who helped broker the agreement was Boris Yeltsin. The Russian president, who is suffering from a heart ailment, subsequently announced...
Other U.S. firms apparently agree. AT&T said that it will install a $6 million long-distance switch in the republic of Armenia next month and that it was discussing the sale of similar switches to other republics...
...with. The acronyms are hardly euphonious or politic. Turgutmakbak, for example, simply turns the new confederation into gobbledygook. Using syllables from some of the republics would be just as untenable. For example, the Belokazakirghuzbek Russukra Union (B.R.U.) would leave out the easily offended states of Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. And what would the country's inhabitants be called? Bruskis...
...established himself not only as the leader of the Russian Federation but also as the principal spokesman for the eight other republics that were willing to remain autonomous (or "sovereign") members of a loose Soviet commonwealth and as the champion of the six republics -- the three Baltics, Moldavia, Armenia and Georgia -- that wanted complete independence...
...future. Officials in Europe, Asia and the U.S. believe local violence is bound to increase. The Balkan states and Eastern Europe, with their rising, angry nationalisms, will provide fertile ground. Experts of the Counterterrorism Study Group in Washington say that the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia has mounted three terrorist attacks inside the U.S.S.R. since the end of the gulf war. Others single out the murderous Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in Peru, which makes violence against civilians a part of its guerrilla campaigns...