Word: armenias
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...festival in Soviet Armenia, 5,000 rock-besotted fans sway and twitch in the stands of a bicycle stadium...
...envoys have been assassinated abroad, including four in the U.S. In Turkey the Armenians were murdering several Turks each day until the 1980 imposition of martial law. The guerrilla groups tend to be highly professional: the best-known of them, the Marxist Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), created in 1975, was trained in the Beirut camps of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The P.L.O.'s pullout from Lebanon last summer may have forced ASALA to move its base to Western Europe...
There is scarcely a discernible connection between the improvisers' tales. Usually after a bout of vicious lovemaking, each bard tells a snippet of a story. A Russian seduces a teen-age Polish gymnast on an ocean liner; an Armenian American on a pilgrimage to Soviet Armenia makes furious love with her guide. The lengthiest improvisation is narrated by the poet Surkov, who fancies he is Pushkin incarnate. After a jealous scene with Pushkin's wife, he retells the master's unfinished tale, Egyptian Nights, followed by a parodic string of bromides: "Her black eyes flashed...
Towering over Ararat is the mountain of the same name, a symbol of unattainable purity. The characters frequently invoke it, or plan visits to Soviet Armenia so they may glimpse it in the mists. The shadow it casts upon the characters is the memory of the Turkish massacre of Armenians in 1915. Indeed, one important figure is Everyman's executioner, who improvises a story of how he participated in this and other mass murders...
...airport killers were members of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), one of several underground groups that are eager for vengeance against Turks for the murder of more than 1 million Armenians in 1915. Though Armenians had borne their grievance peaceably for decades, terrorists began in 1973 to carry out systematic assassinations of Turkish envoys. Their goal: forcing the Turks to acknowledge committing the act of genocide, to pay reparations to the descendants of the victims, and to grant autonomy to the former Armenian-dominated provinces in northeastern Turkey or give them up altogether so they...