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Eduardo Lozano, a former professor of urban planning at Harvard University who has helped rebuild devastated cities in Peru and Nicaragua, said Sunday he will draft a master plan for the city. Lozano and officials in Moscow and Armenia, a Soviet republic, agreed on the plan last week...
...said he went to Armenia this month to assess the devastation at the invitation of Yerevan's vice-mayor, Babken Vardanyan, the head of the delegation that visited Cambridge...
...Soviet leadership closed Tbilisi to foreign journalists, but it could not hide from the truth: the thorny problem of nationalism had erupted in violence yet again in one of Mikhail Gorbachev's non-Russian republics. From the Baltic republics to earthquake-devastated Armenia, greater independence from Moscow has become a rallying cry. The latest troubles began last month, when a minority group known as the Abkhazians, who live in an autonomous enclave in the western part of Georgia, demanded full independence. Georgians, who account for 48% of the population in Abkhazia where Abkhazians are a mere 17%, staged counterprotests, which...
...they are an embarrassment no longer. Bush's son and grandson went to earthquake-stricken Armenia to help in relief efforts. Several are involved in child or community programs. It seems they are as much a part of policy initiatives as John Sununu, and more so than Dan Quayle...
...shaking up the leadership of the southern republic in the Caucasus Mountains, Georgian party officials were following a pattern set last year in the neighboring republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. After four months of nationalist protests there, the Armenian and Azerbaijani party chiefs were fired, apparently for their inability to halt the unrest...