Word: baku
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resident of Baku, USSR, became a grandmaster in 1979 and won the world championship...
...predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan. The Popular Front, formed by a group of intellectuals less than a year ago, was initially considered a fringe group by the local Communist leadership. But then the front began to stage stunning demonstrations of grass-roots support, including a rally in the capital of Baku that drew some 300,000 protesters and a crippling rail blockade of neighboring Armenia. Finally Azerbaijan's Communist leaders officially recognized the nationalist political organization, and acceded to virtually its entire agenda. In a special session of the republic's supreme soviet three weeks ago, legislators declared Azerbaijan a "sovereign" republic...
...capital of Yerevan, has ordered most of them released. Says Khachik Stamboltsyan, a member of the Armenian supreme soviet who spent six months in confinement: "Relations are still tense between us, but we talk a lot." Expressions of hatred toward Azerbaijan are the rule. "They had an earthquake in Baku recently," recounts an Armenian girl. "Too bad it didn't hit 20 on the Richter scale and wipe them...
...their self-proclaimed secession if Moscow continues to govern Nagorno-Karabakh. "There would be a war ((with the Soviet Union))," says Huseynov with a shrug. "But we think Iran and Turkey would help us." Moscow would presumably have something of its own to say about any attempt by Baku to exercise such an option. But so far, Moscow has managed only to alienate both sides in the bitter feud. That is hardly a claim to success -- or authority...
...each other's affairs, but then implied that Moscow could do more for its Muslim population. Said he: "Mr. Gorbachev has a long way to go in terms of providing people freedoms." Nevertheless, Rafsanjani apparently liked what he saw: he added two stops to his itinerary -- Leningrad and Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, a republic on the doorstep of Iran with a large population of Shi'ite Muslims...