European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes wednesday. January 17,1990page 2t/ l Azerbaijan violence rages red army Kab ordered in Moscow a the Kremlin has ordered the red army and Kab units to combat the escalating ethnic rampage in the caucasus where at least 37 people have died in three Days of armenian azerbaijani violence. Soviet Media reported that people were publicly burned to death in Baku the Azerbaijan capital and Hundred of azerbaijani and armenians battled with sub machine guns helicopters and a Mored vehicles. Azerbaijan meanwhile continued its blockade of trains carrying crucial food and supplies to land locked Armenia. Soviet president Mikhail s. Gorba Chev and i he presidium of the supreme soviet declared a state of emergency monday night for the Magorno Kara Bakh Region and surrounding parts of the two republics. The decree Means soviet army units and Kab troops will be used to protect residents of the strife torn area and vital installations such As railroads said the official news Agency Tass. Magorno Karabash a mostly Armeni an enclave under Azerbaijan control has been the lightning Rod of ethnic strife that has flared up periodically for nearly two years and presented Gorbachev with one of his most severe crises. The Kremlin rushed High level Tarqu blk shooters and More internal Security troops to the Mountain Region 1,240 Miles Southeast of Moscow in a bid to end the fighting the worst Between pre dominantly moslem azerbaijanis and the mostly Christian armenians since their Long simmering feud boiled Over into bloodshed. Tass said armenians and azerbaijani equipped with sub machine guns were waging open armed clashes in the Khanlar Region of Azerbaijan near a Gorno Karabash. In the nearby Shau Yansky Region soviet to news said 300 gunmen fought in a single Battle. Tass said Magorno Karabash looks like a front line zone today. Trenches arc being dug in villages. Self defense posts being it said terrorists with hand grenades and machine guns were cover gig on the azerbaijani Village of adz Hikind and artillery used to break up hailstorms brought in to shoot at helicopters. Izvestia the government newspaper said the belligerents were using helicopters without markings and armoured vehicles captured from military bases. The violence which exploded sat urday night with an anti armenian riot in the Oil producing Center of Baku is reminiscent of news from the War front in world War ii soviet to commentator Igor Kudrin said. Izvestia said at least 33 people had died Over the past three Days in anti armenian rampages in Baku a City of 1.7 million. Bulgaria scraps party supremacy Sofia. Bulgaria a parliament voted monday to abolish the communist party s political monopoly and agreed to discuss further constitutional changes with the opposition which is demanding a swifter transition to voted unanimously to de Lete clauses in the Constitution that had guaranteed communist party supremacy in Bulgaria for 44 years following the Lead of colleagues in other East bloc countries. On sunday More than 50,000 people rallied in Sofia to keep up the pressure on legislators and demand the immedi ate dismissal of old guard communists still in the leadership. They chanted communists resign resign the demonstrators demanded a government of National Accord and the res ignation of Premier Georgi Atanassov a Holdover from the hard line Rule of Todor Zsivkov who was ousted nov. 10 after 34 years in was also expected to adopt a declaration backing the restoration of the rights of the country s turkish speak declaration Aims to defuse ethnic tension Between slavic nationalists and members of Bulgaria s estimated 1.2 Mil lion ethnic turks. German from Page 1 was Clear that the non violent Organiza Tion was left behind by the anger of the people. Bitter arguments ensued Avo jul my tried to Clear the to keep demonstrators out after the build ing had been ravaged. To nearby army conscripts serving in smoking cigarette and chatting. Monday s dam deep East germans weeks ago looked on in horror As television portrayed the bloody Battles raging Between romanian demonstrators and government . But these Day ii of nary East germans j Nat Sti esl that perhaps hould Nave occurred Here tally Root out the seems to have caused the shift in Bylic attitude Are disclosures that continued to operate despite it and it successor the Agency had been abolished. King from Page 1 Parade trivialized the Day and wasted Money that could serve the poor. This has been prostituted More than any other hol iday except Jesus Christ s birthday the Rev. Hosca Williams said at a news conference in front of an at Lanta housing project. In California about 25,000 people lined a los an Geles Street for the fifth annual King birthday Cele bration Parade Down a Boulevard named for him. And 2,500 turned out for an annual breakfast in Boston. In new York about 120 people who walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall in that City s 10th annual March were greeted by mayor David Dinkins new York s first Black mayor. During his lifetime King led non violent marches and protests in the South in the 1950s and 1960s in a quest to end discrimination. He led a yearlong Boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery. Ala. From there he established the Southern Christian leadership conference to work peacefully for equal rights for Blacks. In 1964, he received the Nobel i each prize. He was shot and killed by an escaped convict James Earl Ray on april 4, 1968, in Memphis Tenn. But racial inequities and clashes still tear at Ameri Ca s consciousness today. In the South there have been a series of fatal bombings and threats apparently racially motivated. And in bos Ion race relations were strained after an apparent hoax in which a White Man claimed a Black mugger fatally shot his pregnant wife. Charles Stuart later killed himself As police began to suspect he had killed his wife. The Day s events also included protests against Stales and institutions that would not Mark the Day. New Hampshire is one of four states without any form of King Holiday. The others Are Arizona Montana and Idaho. Some other Stales keep workers on the Job but Mark the Day in other ways. Several protests took place in Concord . About 150 my Rimack Valley High school students walked out of morning classes to recognize King Day which their school did not school custodian hoisted the american Flag half staff As the students recited the pledge of allegiance during the half hour ceremony. Several Hundred students and faculty members at St. Paul s school which announced monday morning that it would observe the Holiday marched from the private school s Concord Campus to the new Hampshire than 200 students in Milford . Staged a sit in at the High school Library and 125 in Wolfeboro staged a lunch Lime demonstration that kept them Oul of classes for two Arizona where the King Holiday has Long been a bitter controversy a Phoenix crowd estimated by police at nearly 15,000 heard lawmakers and Community leaders at the Capitol urge them to Register and vote in a referendum this fall Over whether to let a King Day Observance become Law. Another 2,000 people marched in Tucson. A Bill to make the Day a Holiday was introduced in the Idaho Senate but an Effort to win immediate consideration for a similar Bill was Defeated in the South Dakota Columbia mo., about 200 students sat Down inside the University of Missouri s administration building to protest the school s decision not to cancel classes for the 100 people in Monroe la., demonstrated out Side the ouachita Parish school Board to protest its Refu Sal to observe the Holiday. Long of stance one system is crippled new York a american Telephone & Telegraph co. Said its phone system had problems connecting Lone distance Calls nationwide monday apparently due to trouble in the computer soft Ware that runs its phone switching centers. Callers to Many areas received a recording saying that All circuits were Busy and Calls could not be put through. It seems to be affecting major cities in various parts of the coun try said at to spokesman Burke Linson at the company s offices in basking Ridge n j. It seems to be a software i be been Here 20 years Stinson said and while we be had Long Dis Tance Calls blocked i be not seen a coast to coast problem he said the problem first was noticed shortly after 2 30 . Est. We be ruled out an act of god and obviously this has not been caused by some construction Crew digging too deeply and cutting a asked whether the problem could have been caused by sabotage Suchias a computer virus he said we re not going Down that Road Stinson said at to has about 180 switching centers nationwide which route the Calls. He said it appeared that a substantial number of them were affected by the trouble. But Stinson added some of the Calls that did t go through were due to the deliberate blocking of lines by at to to enable it to diagnose the problem. We have hundreds of people around the country trying to diag nose and Correct this he said. He could not say How a software problem could crop up at so Many switching centers at once. New York City schoolchildren sing after marching to the mayor s mansion on King Day
