Word: armenias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arsenals, he pressed for conventional-arms reductions and a demilitarized "corridor" in Europe to lessen the possibility of a surprise attack from either side. He was hardly placated when Moscow admitted that the invasion of Afghanistan had been a mistake; he criticized the government for a colonialist attitude toward Armenia and the Baltic states. Though a supporter of Gorbachev's basic reforms, he used the Congress of People's Deputies as a tribune to attack him for accumulating too much personal power. "There are no guarantees that a Stalinist will not succeed Gorbachev," he warned. The release of political prisoners...
Riding atop the economic woes is the horseman of ethnic anarchy amid the 15 national republics that constitute the Soviet Union. Armenia and Azerbaijan are nearly at war with each other, Moldavia has been crippled by ethnically inspired strikes, Georgians are demanding an end to the "Soviet empire," and in Lithuania the Communist Party has abolished its own monopoly of power, the most striking sign of Baltic nationalism to date...
...legislature voted 243 to 1 in favor of a constitutional amendment legalizing rivals to the Communist Party. While Lithuania thus became the first Soviet republic to do so, in neighboring Estonia the Communist Party Central Committee approved a similar proposal that should easily pass the legislature next month. In Armenia angry crowds surrounded parliament after legislators rejected a multiparty system. This week Andrei Sakharov and other members of the Congress of People's Deputies are calling for a two-hour strike to force the Congress to debate the repeal or modification of Article 6 of the constitution, which enshrines...
...When it was necessary to deploy the military, for example, to guard the railway between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the Supreme Soviet voted...
...that Californians have been willing to tolerate the risks arising from life on a fault line is not to say they have been indifferent to them. The recent quake was comparable in magnitude to the one in Armenia last December, which killed 25,000. "A substantial contributor to the much lower death rate in California was that California was conscious of the risk and made significant investments as a precaution," says M. Granger Morgan, head of the department of engineering and public policy at Carnegie-Mellon University. But after last week, earthquakes are going to be viewed as a much...