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...swiftly closed to foreigners, TIME Washington correspondent David Aikman and photographer Alexandra Avakian of Woodfin Camp & Associates, on assignment for another story, happened to fly into Dushanbe on Monday. Until they returned to Moscow two days later, they were the only Western journalists to be eyewitnesses to the Tadzhik uprising...
...short drive from the airport to the Tadzhikistan Hotel that we realize something ugly is happening. Do we know about the big demonstration, the Tadzhik driver asks? "The Tadzhiks have demanded that the 2,500 Armenians leave," he says, "and gave them 48 hours to get out." What Armenians? "The Armenians recently came here as refugees from Baku," he continues, as good- naturedly as though referring to the light snow that is falling. "The government gave them apartments that we have been waiting for for eight years or more. So the Tadzhiks attacked the central-committee building. There...
...guerrillas say they have even begun striking across the border into the Soviet Union in recent months. Says one commander, who claims to have participated in the cross-border raids: "Uzbek-speaking and Tadzhik-speaking Russians help us, giving us food, shelter and information. After our latest attacks inside Russia, the Soviets executed many Asian Russians for helping us." He claims that some Muslim Russians are now forming their own armed guerrilla groups. Says he: "We are making an increased effort to incite an uprising in Tadzhikistan and Uzbekistan...
...Tadzhik, Angola's Ndongo, India's Bagri...
Private Industry. In Moscow, Soviet officials revealed that a wine-store manager in the Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic had been convicted of cheating the state of 120,000 rubles by selling bootleg vodka...