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- WORLD, Page 37World NotesSOVIET UNIONRumblings in The Republics
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- In Georgia hostilities deepened as renegade national
- guardsmen joined civilian efforts to oust Zviad Gamsakhurdia,
- the republic's authoritarian president. About 60 rebel guardsmen
- were reported killed in a clash with republic troops . . . The
- seizure of power in Tadzhikistan by Rakhman Nabiev, a hard-line
- former Communist Party chief, prompted thousands of people to
- defy a newly imposed state of emergency. Crying "Communist
- coup!," protesters vowed to resist Nabiev's administration . .
- . Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement calling for a
- cease-fire and negotiations to end their dispute over
- Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, but
- the fighting continued. Among those who helped broker the
- agreement was Boris Yeltsin. The Russian president, who is
- suffering from a heart ailment, subsequently announced that he
- would take a two-week rest.
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