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...Nagorno-Karabakh, where more than 120 people have been killed. In Baku, Azerbaijani gangs have systematically terrorized Armenians. Violence has also broken out in the southwestern city of Jalilabad, where two weeks ago mobs took over the local Communist Party headquarters and police station, and are threatening to elect their own leaders...
Prior to yesterday's swearing-in ceremony, Weldattended a nondenominational service at the ParkSt. church, down the street from the State House.The governor-elect and his retinue then proceededto the governor's corner office, where he receivedthe keys to the State House and a Bible owned byformer Gov. Benjamin Butler in a tradition thatdates back more than a century...
...line with reality and reduce inflation to 3% a month -- low by Brazilian standards. He also promised to spend $94 billion on housing, education and health services for the poor. Collor's resulting popularity among the country's shirt-sleeved masses, declared a bitter Lula, is undeserved. The President- elect, he predicted, "will govern in favor of big business, the armed forces and the International Monetary Fund...
...March the Soviet people went to the polls to elect a new 2,250-seat Congress of People's Deputies. The Congress in turn elected the Supreme Soviet, the country's standing parliament. Previous parliaments were no more than tools of the party, but this one has actively debated and even opposed government programs. In the absence of rival political parties, some 85% of those elected to the Congress were party members. But a groundswell of revulsion against entrenched bureaucrats denied almost a third of the country's regional party chiefs seats in the Congress. In May live coverage...