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World and Nation
Armenian Muscovites walkout;
strike closes factories, transit
MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of
Armenians stayed away from work
on Tuesday in a general strike that
shut down factories and mass transit
in a city at the center of an ethnic
dispute, a local resident said.
Also Tuesday, the Tass news
agency announced that two officials
were dismissed from the Communist
Party for alleged negligence that led
to the violence between Armenians
and Azerbaijanis.
closed in a strike that had been going
on for several days.
“People aren’t working,” the
woman said. Asked how many, she
answered: “Many thousands. Every
one.” She hung up the telephone be
fore a reporter could ask her name
or other questions.
In Moscow, dissident journalist
Sergei Grigoryants said the general
strike had been under way for about
a week.
public of Azerbaijan. Armenians
want the Armenian-dominated re
gion to be made a part of their
neighboring republic.
Strikes and street rallies began in
the region in February, subsided
and then broke out again recently.
On Monday, an estimated
300,000 Armenians staged a street
protest in Yerevan, the capital of Ar
menia, calling for annexation of Na
gorno-Karabakh, said Grigoryants,
who is half-Armenian and half-Rus-
agitating
right to am
The resident of the city of Stepa
nakert, reached by telephone from
Moscow, said public transport was
not running and that factories and
other businesses in the city were
epl
city oflices and radio and television
stations did not go through.
Stepanakert is the main city of Na
gorno-Karabakh, a region in the re-
The demonstration took place in
the same square outside Yerevan’s
Opera Theater where February’s
demonstrations were held.
Armenians began
mid-February for the right to annex
Nagorno-Karabakh. At the end of
the month, ethnic rioting brok out in
the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait. At
least 32 people — six Azerbaijanis
and 26 Armenians — were killed.
Most of the 160,000 residents of
Nagorno-Karabakh are ethnic Ar
menians, most of them Christians.
Since 1923, the region has been part
of Azerbaijan, whose titular ethnic
group is predominantly Moslem.
The Soviet government rejected
the demand to change jurisdiction
over Nagoro-Karabakh, opting in
stead for a program of social and
economic development.
Yearly fight against rent hikes begin
NEW YORK (AP) — Ah, springtime in New
York: The first robin in Central Park. The first
ballgame at Yankee Stadium. And the first angry
protester ejected from Police Headquarters in
the annual brawl over city rents.
“People get frustrated, people get thrown out,
their blood pressure goes way up,” said John ].
Gilbert III, head of a landlord group, in sum
ming up the yearly hike-or-hold-the-rent fight
before the city Rent Guidelines Board, which be
gins its hearings Wednesday.
The proceedings match angry tenants with
irate landlords, with roughly the same results as
introducing Billy Marlin to patrons in a topless
bar. Rhetoric is thick and animosity thicker, with
supporters on both sides cheering, jeering and
(with the aid of police) disappearing during the
session.
Slightly more than 50 percent of the city’s
apartments are covered by the board’s guidelines
under a system that has its roots in the city’s
World War II housing scarcity. Although the
owners routinely request double-digit increases
on one- and two-year leases, the board generally
grants a much lower increase. This year, Gilbert
asked for increases of 15 percent on one-year
leases and 19 percent on two-year leases.
The hearings — once held privately, but
opened to the public by court order in 1979 —
are held inside Police Headquarters for security
reasons. Dozens of police officers are assigned to
the hearings, and others are available if verbal ar
guments get out of hand.
High court favors
U.S. rules to allot
gray market sales
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court, in a victory for
bargain hunters, Tuesday upheld
federal regulations that allow a
multibillion-dollar “gray market”
in which costly imported goods
are sold at reduced prices.
The justices, voting 5-4, said
the U.S. Customs Service does
not have to shut down the fjray
market— famous-name, foreign-
made goods bearing valid U.S.
trademarks sold in this country
without approval from trade
mark owners.
By a separate 5-4 vote, the
court struck down another Cus
toms Service rule that could be
used to expand the gray market.
But lawyers for leading discount
ers said invalidating that regula
tion will have little impact.
“I think the Supreme Court’s
ruling today is a great victory for
American consumers and for the
right of merchandisers in the
United States seeking to bring
products manufactured abroad
into the United States at realistic
and honest prices,” said Nathan
Lewin, representing a discount
dealer, 47th Street Photo Inc. in
New York Citv.
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