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President Mikhail S. Gorbachev wound up a two-day visit to the disaster area, calling the situation in Armenia "a grave disaster, simply a tragedy...
...Leninakan, Armenia's second-largest city near the Turkish border, stacks of red, black or unfinished wood coffins were piled on street corners...
...spasm was yet another manifestation of ethnic tensions that confront General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev with a formidable challenge. The Nagorno- Karabakh dispute has revived the historic hostility between Armenians, who are largely Christians, and Azerbaijanis, who are mainly Muslims. Armenia's call for restoration of the enclave and its 160,000 people to Armenian control has been rebuffed by the central government, which fears that any such adjustment might trigger territorial demands elsewhere...
...news of trouble spread, hundreds of Armenians living in Azerbaijan fled Kirovabad, Baku and other areas. In Yerevan, the Armenian capital, huge crowds gathered day after day to hear the latest news from Azerbaijan. Toward week's end, amid reports that ethnic clashes in some villages in Armenia had left two people dead, Moscow dispatched troops to Yerevan and ordered a nighttime curfew in the city...
...WORLD: An exclusive look at the problem facing Soviet troops in ethnically tense Armenia and Azerbaijan...