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Moscow's crackdown, the latest chapter in a tug-of-war between the republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, came a day after some 400,000 demonstrators gathered in Baku's main square to wave purple-and-red Azerbaijani flags, hear speeches and denounce Armenian leaders. The Armenians are demanding that Nagorno-Karabakh be fully incorporated into Armenia. Simultaneously, in the industrial city of Kirovabad and in the Nakhichevan region, Azerbaijani toughs went on anti-Armenian rampages. They even attacked troops deployed to protect Armenian property; four soldiers were killed and three...
...Yerevan the movement to join Armenia has spawned its own leaders. Foremost among them is the shadowy Karabakh Committee, which loosely coordinates the Theater Square demonstrations. The committee, officially disbanded in March, still has eleven active members, who meet regularly despite the threat of prison sentences should the government decide to act. "We lead totally open lives," says Levon Ter-Petrossian, 43, a linguist and committee member. "If they arrested us, they'd have an insurrection on their hands." The Karabakh movement has recently begun to wage a fresh campaign for pleading its case in Moscow. In October nationalist leader...
...announced a mid-1989 plenum to discuss the sensitive ethnic issue; the outcome may help shape a policy that goes beyond current disjointed prescriptions. In examining the Soviet Union's ethnic dilemma, TIME offers a report on the two republics that present Gorbachev with his greatest challenge: Estonia and Armenia...
WORLD: Nationalist movements in the Baltic republics and Armenia pose dramatic challenges for the Soviet Union...
...Estonia, advocates of increased local autonomy risk a collision with Moscow over the limits of mutual sovereignty. In Armenia, anger continues to rise over the status of the ethnic minority in Azerbaijan. -- Benazir Bhutto wins the vote, but will she get to govern Pakistan? -- P. L. O. Chairman Yasser Arafat declares a Palestinian state in the West Bank...