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...this hour of trial, many citizens blame the government of President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, elected when the republic declared independence from Moscow in 1991, for the economic collapse. Many agree with engineer Arthur Verdian that "a government whose people are starving does not have the moral right to rule." Others believe it is time to find a compromise over Nagorno-Karabakh. "We have to stop this war by any means," says Armen Arutunian, a doctor. "The world community should intervene. There already have been too many victims, so many losses." Antigovernment demonstrations are on the rise, but the President...
...Petrosyan's attempts to improve relations with Turkey, still regarded by Armenians as the true historic enemy, have produced few results -- if only < because Ankara wants to avoid offending Azerbaijan, a Turkic-speaking fellow Muslim country. The U.S. has barely begun to address the complexities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, let alone Nagorno-Karabakh. Says former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian, an Armenian American: "This is not the first difficult, cold winter for Armenians, but there is an unfortunate sense among the people that they have been abandoned to their fate...
Under the gaze of 1.500 spectators, the match began in a theater across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. Botvinnik won the first game, and Petrosyan was afraid the champion would seize the psychological advantage. Petrosyan shifted tactics. "When he expected me to be warlike, I played as if nothing had happened." By the end of the fifth game, it was all tied up, 2½-2½*and both men showed the strain...
Just One More. Pale and Haggard. Botvinnik seemed to have aged ten years; Petrosyan lost 10 Ibs. Three games had to be postponed when the combatants showed up sick. But training was starting to tell: after 21 games, Petrosyan led 12-9, needed just one more draw to clinch the best-out-of-24 match. As Game No. 22 started, a warning sign flashed KEEP SILENT, and TV cameras eagerly dollied in. After only nine moves, Petrosyan proposed a draw. Botvinnik refused. "Go ahead," he said. "Move." The challenger moved, and leaned back, his face impassive, eyes half closed. Five...
...last Botvinnik sighed, smiled wanly, and stuck out his hand in concession. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosyan was Russia's latest sports idol. Fans chanted "Tigran! Tigran! Tigran!" Flower-bearing women fought to plant kisses on his cheeks, and out in Armenia, a set of triplets was named Tigran, Vartan and Petros...