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...fire to houses and cars. Ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijani battled with knives and guns in the worst outbreak of violence since 32 people died last February in riots in Sumgait, an Azerbaijani city. As Soviet troops arrived to restore order, authorities imposed a military curfew. The Soviet news agency TASS said one Armenian had been killed and 48 other people injured in the fighting...
...Soviet news agency TASS said Mohmand's main assignments are participating in experiments on the nauseating effects of weightlessness and photographic surveys of his native land. But the images broadcast to the folks back in Kabul suggested that Mohmand was given a larger mission: helping Moscow win friends in Afghanistan as the Soviets withdraw their troops from that divided country...
Declaring that such practices are "not congruent with the spirit of the times," TASS last week announced new regulations that drastically curtail the honors. No longer, for example, will party officials regularly receive medals on their birthdays. But the Kremlin has not totally lost its shine for accolades. TASS also announced the creation of 15 new awards, including People's Teacher of the U.S.S.R. and Merited Worker of Industry...
...Soviet garrison pulled out. The guerrillas overran the government defenders and freed the prisoners at the local jail, but failed to capture the heavily defended airport. Within two days government reinforcements closed in, and Soviet aircraft went to work. After three days of fighting, the mujahedin withdrew; according to TASS, twelve Afghan troops and 173 insurgents died (the latter figure possibly includes civilian casualties). The Kunduz affair apparently triggered a shake-up in the Afghan military. TASS reported that Najibullah had appointed a new Defense Minister and army chief of staff...
...geographically part of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan but whose people are predominantly Armenian. After five months of protests by Armenian activists who wanted the enclave to become part of the Armenian Republic, the ruling council of Nagorno-Karabakh voted unanimously last week to secede from Azerbaijan. According to TASS, the council also decided to rename the area "the Artsakh Autonomous Region of Armenia" and to be governed by Armenia...