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...Sunday, a Soviet military plane bringing soldiers to help the rescue effort crashed as it approached Leninakan's airport, killing 78 people. An unofficial report from the Armenian news agency Armenpress said it made one pass on a runway, which was damaged by the earthquake and clogged with traffic, and struck a nearby mountain while turning to try again...
...There are troops and tanks. I don't want to say the whole city is surrounded, but at Lenin Square and other areas where there are government buildings there are hundreds of soldiers," said the deputy director of Armenia's official news agency, Armenpress...
...Armenpress editor, who reported the rally in Yerevan, said the 20-member Presidium, or executive committee of parliament, met to consider whether to call a full Supreme Soviet session of the republic...
Several Supreme Soviet deputies had promised a three-hour rally by up to 700,000 people on Thursday night to press again for an emergency Supreme Soviet session, the Armenpress deputy director and activist Rafael Popoyan said...
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