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- <text id=91TT2208>
- <title>
- Oct. 07, 1991: World Notes:Soviet Union
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 37
- World Notes
- SOVIET UNION
- Rumblings in The Republics
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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