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...appointment of his 41-year-old son, Ilham, as Prime Minister, ensuring that should Heydar die or become incapacitated, Ilham can take over as acting President. And as a Russian IL-62 flying hospital rushed Aliyev from Turkey to the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio on Aug. 7, the Azeri cabinet agreed to allow its new Prime Minister to take an unpaid vacation so that he could campaign for the presidency. Both Aliyevs are on the ballot for the election, scheduled for Oct. 15. Aliyev's succession plan, notes a longtime observer of the Caucasus, "depended on the old man being...
...Karabakh is suddenly a lot worse. Armenia has swallowed one-tenth of Azerbaijan, including the regional center of Kelbajar, trapping thousands of civilians in desperate conditions. The U.S. condemned the Armenian attack. The U.N. Security Council demanded that Armenia withdraw from Kelbajar and reaffirmed the sovereignty of the besieged Azeri state. As heavy fighting continued over the weekend, Armenia welcomed an offer by Russian President Boris Yeltsin to mediate an end to the war -- something he and Kazakhstan's leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, attempted unsuccessfully...
...second time in nine days, a skyjacker has demanded passage to New York City. On Feb. 11, a 20-year-old Ethiopian armed with a starter's pistol pirated a Lufthansa jet to J.F.K. Airport, only to be promptly arrested. Last Saturday, a man tentatively identified as an Azeri commandeered a Russian jetliner on a flight from Siberia to St. Petersburg and demanded to be flown to New York. Persuaded to believe that the aircraft did not have enough fuel to cross the Atlantic, the hijacker agreed to stop in Tallinn, Estonia, then Stockholm, Sweden, where he finally surrendered...
...anymore. Last week Armenian fighters cut a six-mile corridor through Azerbaijan to link Karabakh to the Armenian republic, then launched an artillery assault on the Azeri territory of Nakhichevan, which borders Iran and Turkey. Washington, Moscow and Tehran all strongly condemned the surprisingly forceful Armenian military moves. And in Ankara the main opposition party called on the Turkish government to send troops to Nakhichevan to defend the Azeris, who are ethnic Turks...
...exaggerated, but the utter failure of the C.I.S. to mediate even a temporary cease-fire in Karabakh suggests that the Commonwealth may go the way of its Soviet predecessor. Five of the 11 leaders invited to the most recent C.I.S. summit meeting failed even to show, and the leading Azeri presidential candidate last week declared his intention to withdraw Azerbaijan from the Commonwealth entirely...