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...actually deputy chief of the Higher Academy of Fire Fighters. The affiliation is appropriate: for the past year, he has been putting out symbolic fires in Nagorno-Karabakh, the mostly Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan and the scene of some of the region's worst ( bloodletting. A year ago, the Kremlin dispatched Kupreyev and four other outsiders to assume administrative control of Nagorno-Karabakh. In November the Supreme Soviet returned command of the enclave to the Azerbaijanis. Two weeks ago, Kupreyev, 52, came home...
...responded to a small help-wanted ad that McDonald's officials placed last November. After 14 years of negotiating a maze of Soviet bureaucrats, the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union is scheduled to open this week. Situated on Pushkin Square, just a few blocks from the Kremlin, the restaurant will introduce a new concept: fast food. To handle the anticipated Big Mak attack, the McDonald's has a seating capacity of 700, the largest in the 11,300- restaurant chain, and can serve as many as 15,000 customers...
Once the decision to intervene in Azerbaijan was made, Soviet army tanks, so often the Kremlin's tool for political repression, thundered through makeshift barricades and swept easily into the center of riotous Baku. Since then, however, nothing has been easy for the occupying force of some 40,000 from the army, Interior Ministry and KGB. They have found it almost impossible to pacify the people of Azerbaijan, who for two years have been inflamed by a bitter blood feud with neighboring Armenia over control of the mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Last week black flags waved from housetops, sirens...
...come grimly to pass, and Moscow last week was signaling its eagerness to extricate itself from the republic. Its troops rounded up about 80 leaders of the Front's paramilitary arm, the National Defense Council, and other illegal organizations, seizing firearms, bombs and uniforms. At the same time, the Kremlin drew a distinction between the Front's guerrillas and its political organizers, who will inevitably have to take part in future negotiations with the central government...
...Soviet domestic politics seem more complicated than ever, so does U.S. policy toward the U.S.S.R. Washington's endorsement last week of the Kremlin's decision to dispatch troops to stop the bloody fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Now that the Soviet military threat seems less menacing, other issues are coming to the fore, including the disputes among the various nationalities that make up the Soviet Union. The past few weeks have demonstrated just how tangled and explosive these conflicts are and how difficult it will be for the U.S. to decide...