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...explosion of ethnic violence in Azerbaijan a year ago caught Gorbachev without a workable nationalities policy. The Armenians are enraged by what they claim are flagrant cases of ethnic abuse against their compatriots living in Azerbaijan. Gorbachev's prestige plummeted in Armenia when he gave a finger-wagging lecture to Armenian intellectuals who had come to present their case in Moscow last summer and when he ended his snap tour of the Armenian earthquake zone last December with another outburst against nationalists...
...Films series at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in tandem with Boris Frumin's The Errors of Youth, shot in 1978 but just completed this year. Eleven Soviet filmmakers are touring the U.S. with Glasnost Film Festival, whose 22 documentaries include robust exposes on Chernobyl, the Armenian revolt and the war in Afghanistan...
...Harvard Foundation sponsors the fourth annual Cultural Rhythms festival in celebration of ethnic diversity this Sunday in Sanders Theater. The performance should include dance and music from as many as 16 different campus groups, including the African Students Society, the Armenian Club, Expressions Dance and the Scottish Highland Dance and Step Society. Olypmic gold medalist Florence Joyner Griffith is the guest master of ceremonies for the three-hour performance Sunday afternoon. Following the performance is a dinner, featuring foods from cultures around the world...
...after the Armenian earthquake, when the world was flying millions of dollars in medical supplies to the devastated region, PETA spent $400 to fly lobsters from a tank in a Chinese restaurant in Rockville, Maryland to the coast of Maine. The lobsters were "liberated" by being dumped into the ocean...
...addition to discussing trade issues, the Armenian visitors have had a taste of American life. "They have travelled on the subway as well as in cars." Wolf said. "and one of them went to the Celtics game...