Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like an amiable sidekick and Bush lapsed into the prenomination gawkiness that used to plague him whenever he stumbled across Reagan's shadow. Afterward, Mikhail and Raisa's foray into Manhattan provoked more excitement than any other visit since Pope John Paul II's in 1979. Even the devastating Armenian earthquake that forced Gorbachev to rush home early, and the sudden resignation of his Chief of the General Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, added dramatic punctuations to his visit...
YEREVAN, U.S.S.R.--Survivors of the Armenian earthquake are freezing to death at night because only a fraction of the thousands of tents sent to the disaster area reach the homeless, a Soviet newspaper reported yesterday...
...worldwide outpouring of aid has overwhelmed the backward, mountainous region hit hardest by the Armenian earthquake, clogging Yerevan's airport and the two crude highways that link it with the devastation...
...important question for Gorbachev is whether he can retain control in the Soviet Union. While the Soviets claim Gorbachev rushed home early from the United States last week because of the destructive Armenian earthquake which claimed more than 60,000 lives, experts on the Soviet Union openly question whether he did so because of negative reactions from the Soviet military. Soviet armed forces chief of staff Sergie Akhormeyev, who opposed Gorbachev in this latest unilateral move, resigned the same day Gorbachev gave his U.N. speech...
...Sunday, a Soviet military plane bringing soldiers to help the rescue effort crashed as it approached Leninakan's airport, killing 78 people. An unofficial report from the Armenian news agency Armenpress said it made one pass on a runway, which was damaged by the earthquake and clogged with traffic, and struck a nearby mountain while turning to try again...