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Sakharov's delegation visited Baku, Yerevan and Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan that has been at the heart of the ethnic clashes that have been rocking the Soviet Union since February. He also stopped in Spitak, the town virtually destroyed in the Dec. 7 earthquake that the Kremlin now estimates took 25,000 lives...
...firmly rebuffed the territorial claim, and his hurried departure for home prompted speculation that he feared that the effects of the quake, if not dealt with promptly and sensitively, could inflame the situation and lead to further upheaval. In fact, shortly after Soviet troops left the Azerbaijan capital of Baku for the earthquake zone, an Armenian spokesman reported that rioters in the city had set fire to Armenian houses. The government newspaper Izvestia urged people to "first be human beings, and then Russians, Armenians or Azerbaijanis...
...third time since ethnic tension first erupted into violence nine months ago, armored vehicles clattered through the southern Caucasus last week. In the central square of Baku, the capital of the Azerbaijan Republic, a handful of people looked on curiously as tanks took up positions blocking entrances to the plaza. Curfews were imposed in several Azerbaijani cities, including Baku, and Soviet soldiers and police stopped groups of youngsters and ordered them to return home...
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...
...news of trouble spread, hundreds of Armenians living in Azerbaijan fled Kirovabad, Baku and other areas. In Yerevan, the Armenian capital, huge crowds gathered day after day to hear the latest news from Azerbaijan. Toward week's end, amid reports that ethnic clashes in some villages in Armenia had left two people dead, Moscow dispatched troops to Yerevan and ordered a nighttime curfew in the city...