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...mostly Christian Armenia, nationalists are also gaining new prominence. Communist Party leader Suren Arutunyan, who jailed many extremists last December following demonstrations in the 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...
...lead totally open lives," says Levon Ter-Petrossian, 43, a linguist and committee member. "If they arrested us, they'd have an insurrection on their hands." The Karabakh movement has recently begun to wage a fresh campaign for pleading its case in Moscow. In October nationalist leader Khachik Stamboltsyan abandoned a 21-day-old hunger strike to exploit Gorbachev's democratization campaign and run for the regional parliament against the republic's sitting minister of the interior. He polled nearly three times as many votes as his opponents, but was disqualified on a technicality...
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