University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 25, 1990
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Talks stall in ethnic clash
Russians leave amid violence
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Troops in Baku rounded up 43 activists yesterday and banned rallies in the Azerbaijani capital. Soldiers' families and thousands of Russians were evacuated because of the violence.
Talks between Armenian and Azerbaijani officials in the Armenian town of Yeraksh broke down yesterday, the official news agency Tass reported, but efforts were continuing up negotiations in other border areas.
A battle was reported in Baku harbor, and the government newspaper Izvestia said clashes between Azerbaijanis and Soviet troops sent in last week were taking the form of a partisan war. Night patrols have
been frequently attacked.
Violence began on Jan. 13 when dozens of ethnic Armenians were killed in riots by Azerbaijanis.
An estimated 16,000 Armenians left the city, and war began in the hills around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and on the border with Armenian and Azerbaijani republics. At least 171 people have been killed.
Captains of the oil tankers and barges were reported to have threatened to blow up their vessels if military vessels tried to break through. Rumors had circulated in Baku that navy ships had bodies of Azerbaijanis aboard and had orders to dump them at sea.
State TV reported that ships of the Caspian Sea Oil Fleet attacked a marine passenger terminal yesterday in Baku harbor.
Tass reported that a day-long blockade of the harbor by captains of Azerbaijani vessels had been lifted.
Elsewhere in Baku, an oil center of 1.8 million people, residents said the streets were relatively quiet for the first time in weeks.
It gave no details except that some people were detained later. Baku residents reached by telephone a 40-minute gun battle in the area.
Leila Yumusova, an Azerbaijan activist, said people observed a ban on mass meetings, but many attended small gatherings to renounce their Communist Party memberships and protest the Soviet military presence. She said 100,000 of Azerbaijan's 380,000 Communists had torn up their party cards.
tion of Baku from Azerbaijani reacting to the army's attacks on militants and attempts to restore order. About 100,000 Russians live in Baku.
Tass reported that demonstrations and strikes were banned in Baku beginning yesterday. Activists were told they could be sent to jail for 30 days if they tried to organize such protests.
Soviet media reported growing threats against the Russian popula-
Many Russians have left the city. Tass reported that the Soviet military had evacuated more than 16,000 wives and children of soldiers.
Azerbaijan's Communist Party Central Committee scheduled a meeting to begin after curfew yesterday evening so the building would not be surrounded by demonstrators, legislative spokesman Nizami Sakvakh said.
Trud, a labor newspaper, reported attacks on the apartments of Russians, and said Azerbaijanis were refusing to sell bread to Russians.
Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave in Azerbaijan with a predominantly Armenian population, is at the crux of the ethnic group conflict that began two years ago. Both sides claim the fertile, hilly region of about 160,000 people.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. and Soviet negotiators, seeking to speed work on a proposed arms pact, have agreed to the first ever peek at each other's nuclear warheads, U.S. spokesman said yesterday.
Superpowers plan inspection
Under the terms of a little publicized protocol signed in Geneva on Monday, U.S. and Soviet inspectors will take a close look sometime this spring at warheads at one each of the other side's land-based and submarine-launched ballistic missiles, the spokesmen said.
Determining the exact number of warheads aboard missiles and bombers will be key when the two sides complete work on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty to cut superpower arsenals by 30 to 50 percent.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III is to hold talks in Moscow on Feb. 6-7 with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze in an effort to speed work on the START accord
for possible signing at an expected summit in June.
Nation/World briefs
Three previous arms control treaties have not been ratified by the Senate, in large measure because of doubts that they could be verified.
The Soviets will get a close look under the tip of an MX and the new D-5, which will be deployed aboard submarines starting in March.
The Soviet ballistic missiles to be inspected are the landbased SS-18 and the submarine-launched SS-N-23, said Matthew Murphy, a spokesman for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Under the new protocol, the Soviets also will have a chance to look at two U.S. B-1B bombers and the U.S. at two Soviet Tupolev-95 "Bear" bombs. One version will be designed to carry cruise missiles and the other will carry standard bombs.
The D-5 is designed to carry eight warheads and the SS-N-23 to carry four.
CRAFT BEINGS ORBITJapan's first lunar spacecraft was put into orbit around the Earth yesterday, ending a 14-year gap between moon missions and giving new prestige to the country's young space program.
Space center officials said the Muses-A satellite, separated as planned from its Nissan-made rocket several minutes after liftoff from an oceanside launch site in southern Japan.
The satellite in its elliptical orbit is to close to within 11,250 miles of the moon by March 18. Then it will release a second, smaller satellite, which will be propelled into lunar orbit about 10,000 miles from the moon.
MANDELA'S FREEDOM ASSURED
rThe top U.S. official on Africa said yesterday that President F.W. de Klerk assured him that Black leader Nelson Mandela would be freed soon.
In an upbeat assessment of South Africa's racial conflict, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Herman Cohen, said both sides must acknowledge the anti-apartheid movements sought to negotiate a political settlement.
LABELS MISLEADING The Food and Drug Administration threatened legal action yesterday against an American Heart Association food labeling program, saying the program could mislead consumers.
He said he thought that the South African government had undertaken a commitment "to make a fundamental change in the South African political system so as to bring about democracy."
The FDA said in a letter that the food labeling program, Heartguide,
could be "risking regulatory action." It said there was a "very real possibility that the FDA would find one or more foods under your program to be misbranded."
Howard Lewis, spokesman for the heart association, said the FDA might have the power to seize products carrying the labels.
"Anytime you have a use of force and the loss of life, we are concerned. But I don't believe I can judge that question right now," Bush said about the Soviet crackdown on roiting in the largely Muslim Soviet republic.
BUSH SPEAKS ON GORBACHEV:
iPresident Bush expressed hope yesterday that Mikhail S. Gorbachev "not only survives but stays strong" in the face of enormous problems. He declined comment on whether the Soviet leader had gone too far in trying to quell civil strife in Azerbaian.
The crowd of about 1,000 people in Victory Square pushed through two lines of unarmed police and then through a line of armed soldiers who took no strong action to hold it back.
ROMANIAN PROTESTERS:Hundreds of protesters broke through lines of police and soldiers yesterday in Bucharest, Romania, and surged toward government headquarters, demanding that the country's leadership resign and accusing it of being a front for Communist rule.
The army moved tanks in slowly, and the crowd retreated, still chanting "Communists in disguise!" and "Elections without the Front!" — a reference to the National Salvation Front's plans to participate in elections on May 20.
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