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Since then the Armenian Republic has been paralyzed three times by widespread work stoppages protesting the Kremlin's refusal to countenance a border change despite the violence committed against Armenians next door. Twice the Soviet government has had to dispatch troops to Yerevan to quell disturbances. Last July a boy was killed by a plastic bullet and 36 people were wounded during a confrontation with soldiers at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport...
...U.S.S.R. to reopen the Nagorno-Karabakh question. (The enclave was assigned to Azerbaijan by Joseph Stalin in 1923.) But Arutyunyan also declared that the Yerevan demonstrators were "not supported by the broad masses." In reply, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev chided an Armenian delegation that had come to the Kremlin to plead the cause. Gorbachev described Armenian demonstrators as "opponents of perestroika" who "wanted to poison the people's consciousness with nationalist intoxication...
Four days earlier, the Kremlin had dispatched three Politburo members to the Baltic region to head off dissent on the constitutional package. While Vadim Medvedev, party secretary for ideology, visited factories in Latvia, and Politburo member Nikolai Slyunkov engaged in street debates in Lithuania, former KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov confronted the restive Estonians. "You can achieve sovereignty," he warned during a factory visit, "but you can lose everything else...
Fitzwater acknowledged that the Kremlin had proposed that Gorbachev meet with Reagan and Bush in just the last few days and that the administration had agreed...
...wanted to relieve him of his posts, he would not object. Our telephone was bugged and his words became known immediately to his opponents, but we knew nothing. The whole morning of the 14th of October passed in exhausting expectation. At last there was a phone call from the Kremlin to say that he was on his way home...