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Armenians rally for republic
Violence breaks out in disputed region
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of Armenians rallied yesterday in Yerevan and demanded that their lawmakers defy Moscow by declaring the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region part of a "unified Armenian republic," local journalists said.
Unconfirmed reports from the Caucasus region in the southern part of the Soviet Union said as many as three people were killed in violence stemming from the sovereignty quarrel about the predominantly Armenian district inside the neighborly republic of Azerbaijan, adding to a 22-month total of about 100 deaths.
overwhelming Armenian majority.
In Moscow, the Soviet legislature overwhelmingly approved a resolution Tuesday disbanding a special commission that had imposed direct control over 160,000 people, which was made part of Azerbaijan in 1923 despite its
The resolution passed by the Soviet legislature said the area was part of Azerbaijan, as provided in the 1977 Soviet Constitution, and would now be the main security body under the supervision of an all-union commission.
In Yerevan, Armenia's capital, the republic's Supreme Soviet Legislature and lawmakers from Nagorno-Karabakh in a special session to debate the Moscow Legislature's resolution, said Armen Dulyan, a spokesman for the republic's official Armenpress news agency.
U.S. citizens flee San Salvador
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Hundreds of U.S. citizens flee the country yesterday to escape a guerrilla war that, after 10 years and 1,000 deaths, has captured the troubled neighborhoods they withdrew from wealthy Salvadors.
"The FMLN is maintaining a constant siege of the capital, which is the neurological center of the nation. The
fuse of a social time-bomb has been lit," said the clandestine rebel radio Venceremos.
Rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, observed a six-hour truce yesterday to permit evacuation of those who wished to leave.
About 150 U.S. citizens left on the first of two charter flights arranged by the U.S. Embassy. They included 234 from Washington and U.S. citizens living in El Salvador.
The Communist Party conducted its first talks with the opposition, and members of Parliament proposed the repeal of tough laws used to imprison and fine dissenters.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tuwiler said that the departure was voluntary, but that they were encouraging embassy dependents and personnel to leave the country.
The party also said it would announce a new program to include "an objective revision of its attitude toward the 'Pragueorm movement' of 1888 and the Soviet-led invasion that crushed it.
Leftist guerrillas fired their first anti-aircraft missile Wednesday, at an Air Force A-37 jet fighter-bomber near Zacateculca, 25 miles south of San Salvador, but missed the target, a Western military source reported.
CZECHOS CAN GO WEST: The Czechoslovakian government said yesterday that it would tear down the fences on its border with Austria and lift virtually all restrictions on travel to the West.
World Briefs
Spokesman Joef Hora said the new policies might allow the readmission to the party of half a people expelled after the invasion.
The Interior Ministry said that starting Monday citizens will be allowed to use their passports for unrestricted travel to the West and East of China. The Soviet Union and Poland, the state news agency CTK reported, the
The only remaining formality will be completion of a simple
PANAMANIAN SHIPS BANNED:
President Bush, trying to tighten the economic screws on Panama's Gen, Manuel Antonio Noriage "and his puppet regime," yesterday banned Panamanian-fled vessels from entering U.S. ports after Jan. 31.
"statistical card" to be filled out as people leave the country, CTK said.
The ban, announced as Bush prepared to leave for a weekend summit at Malta with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, is part of several U.S. economic measures already in place against Panama.
In a statement, the administration renewed its determination "to assist the Panamanian people in their endeavor to bring about Noriega's departure and the establishment of democratic institutions responsive to the will of the people."
GERMAN BANKER MURDERED:
The terrorist Red Army Faction,
dormant for three years, claimed
responsibility for killing West
Germany's most powerful banker
yesterday. His armored Mercedes
was blown apart by a light-sensitive bomb on a bicycle.
Police said the bicycle-bomb apparently was placed on a street of a spa town outside Frankfurt, the 59-year-old banker lived.
Alfred Herrhausen was chairman of Deutsche Bank, West Germany's largest bank, and one of the world's most powerful Kohl's chief economic advisers.
PICASCO PORTRATT: "Pierrefe's Wedding," a poignant group portrait from Picasso's famed blue period, fetched $4.9 million at auction yesterday, the most at auction for a work by the Spanish master.
The Japanese firm Nippon Autopolis Co. bought the work and will make it the centerpiece of a museum in an auto racing theme resort in the mountains of southern Japan.
"We felt we absolutely must have the real thing, a real masterpiece like this for our museum," he said. "It's an important director of Nippon Autopolis."
Officials said the museum is to open next fall as part of a resort on the island of Kyushu that also will include an F-1 auto racing circuit.
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