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Thousands gathered for a rally yesterday in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, to press the republic's parliament to renew a demand to annex the disputed region, a mountainous enclave in Azerbaijan called Nagorno-Karabakh...
...Armenpress editor, who reported the rally in Yerevan, said the 20-member Presidium, or executive committee of parliament, met to consider whether to call a full Supreme Soviet session of the republic...
Popoyan's wife, Arpine, said the mood in Yerevan was "very tense. Everyone is at the edge...
Since foreign journalists are forbidden to travel to the area, they must rely on telephone interviews with Armenian activists. "Nearly the whole country is on strike," a musician in Yerevan told TIME Moscow Correspondent Ann Blackman. "Most plants are shut, including one that supplies rubber for much of the country. Movie theaters and concert halls are closed. We're in a state of mourning." He reported that militiamen accompany bus drivers in case local citizens set up blockades and that doctors and telephone operators stop work for one minute each hour to demonstrate their sympathy...
Other Armenians reported that local prosecutors were pressuring witnesses to testify that demonstrators had provoked troops at an airport in early July. A young Yerevan man was killed in the clash. "People are bringing in evidence, but it's not the kind the prosecutors want," said a Yerevan teacher...