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...year later, with South Africa reeling from two years of unrest that left 5,000 people dead, the government acceded to Mandela's request for top-level political talks, initially focusing on the release of political prisoners. But a historic 45-minute tea with Botha last July, the first and last meeting between the two men, seemed only to show how little they had to say to each other...
Though Kupreyev is careful not to blame Moscow for the continuing tensions, he suggests that some of the bloodshed might have been averted. "Had we had more experience in dealing with ethnic unrest, decisions could have been made months ago," he says. "For example, if Moscow had decided early on to elevate the status of Nagorno-Karabakh from an autonomous region to an autonomous republic, as the Armenians had asked, it might have cooled tensions. It would not have pleased the Azerbaijanis, but they might have been persuaded. Now there is no point in even talking about...
...Fears of unrest were also sounded in Bonn, where authorities are worried about ferment within East Germany and the continuing tide of immigrants to the West, which is still running at about 2,000 a day. A top official of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government, wary of calling too brazenly for unification, urged another formulation. East Berlin, he suggested, should declare that a federal state binding together the two Germanys is the goal of both countries. That, West German officials felt, might help reassure would-be immigrants and stanch the flow...
...deaths brought the overall toll in the unrest to 170 killed since the Baku riots, with more than 600 wounded...
...Radio Moscow reported yesterday that the situation in Baku remained "complex"--a Russian euphemism that can signify widespread unrest. It said the military commander in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, vowed that his troops would stop further attacks...