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...Armenian representatives are "exhausted and sad from the earthquake," Welsh said. "For Armenians, who are really ebullient people they are really toned down." She said the delegation will visit a local Armenian church on Sunday to mark the last of the traditional 40 days of mourning for the quake's victims...
This week's visit from a delegation of government and business leaders from Cambridge's sister city of Yerevan has laid the groundwork for business relations with the Armenian capital, officials said...
Last night, the delegation attended the annual meeting of the Cambridge-Yerevan Sister City Association, where it presented the world premiere of a documentary about life in the Armenian capital. Tomorrow, the group will participate in a breakfast hosted by the NAACP in memory of Martin Luther King Jr., Wolf said...
Sakharov's delegation visited Baku, Yerevan and Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan that has been at the heart of the ethnic clashes that have been rocking the Soviet Union since February. He also stopped in Spitak, the town virtually destroyed in the Dec. 7 earthquake that the Kremlin now estimates took 25,000 lives...
Such quantities of food, clothing, construction materials and other essentials have been flooding in from distant parts of the Soviet Union that freight trains were backed up on railroads leading into Armenia. But despite the nationwide display of generosity, Armenian suspicions of Moscow still run high. Rumors continue to circulate that Moscow has exploited the disaster to raise its troop strength in the Caucasus republic to 20,000. Some military units have been pelted with stones by discontented Armenians, who charged that soldiers spent more time checking passes than digging out victims...