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ASSASSINATED. VAZGEN SARKISIAN, 40, Prime Minister of Armenia; inside the Armenian parliament; in Yerevan. The gunmen--who killed several other officials before taking 40 hostages--claimed a coup d'etat but surrendered the following morning. A former Defense Minister, Sarkisian had been in the post for five years...
...motivated the attack. "We wanted to save the Armenian people from perishing and restore its rights," Unanian said, but he articulated no clear political agenda or complaint. Although Unanian was known for his nationalist views and hard line on Armenia?s conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan, so was Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian, whom he shot at point-blank range. In the end, all the gunmen demanded were guarantees for their personal safety. But the military wants heads to roll in the cabinet, and that could put it on a collision course with the government...
Songs of Welcome. The junketing World Councilmen ranged from Moscow to Leningrad, to Riga in satellite Latvia, to Etchmiadzin in Soviet Armenia, for two days of talks with Vazgen I, Supreme Catholicos of the Armenian Church, within view of Mt. Ararat, one of the traditional sites of the landing place of Noah's Ark. There were banquets and church services, meetings with Patriarch Alexis and Metropolitan Nikolai (Russian Orthodoxy's foreign expert), talks with leaders of the Russian Baptists (who claim a membership of 3,000,000) and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic States...
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