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The KGB said the republic was on the brink of anarchy, and local politicians pushed for secession. Radio Moscow said the situation in the Soviet Caucasus, where Armenians and Azerbaijanis have been battling for 11 days, remained “very, very tense” Tuesday. It said leaders of Soviet Azerbaijan and Arme nia continued negotiations to end the ethnic vio lence, but little progress was reported. The death toll rose to 170, including those killed in anti-Armenian riots in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku and the clashes that ensued among Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Soviet troops. The soldiers, who smashed into Baku to quell the ethnic uprising Saturday, are “more and more often being chosen as targets” by local fighters, Tass quoted Interior Ministry Maj. Gen. Yevgeny Nechayev as saying. Radio Moscow said “irresponsible people” were spreading anti-army and anti-Russian senti ments through unsigned letters and anonymous phone calls. “Azerbaijan is on the edge of the abyss, beyori which lie chaos and anarchy,” the KGB warnei The public appeal was virtually unprecedentl for the usually secretive state security agency. Azerbaijani activists said sentiment to bre| away from Moscow was rising. Jeikhun Mil said Soviet TV reported Tuesday night that gun fire continued in some areas of Baku, and warships remained blocked by militants from leaving the Caspian Sea city’s port. Baku Radio, monitored by the BBC in Lon don, said two soldiers and a woman bystander were killed in an attack on a military convoy. Azerbaijan’s KGB expressed alarm in its ap peal to residents of the republic for calm, Radio Moscow said. Zade, a political scientist, said the Azerbaijij: Communist Party leadership was meeting M day and Wednesday and would consider a brej. from the national party, as Lithuanian Comitl nists did last month. In Gyanje, Azerbaijan’s second-biggesi the City Council demanded the Azerbaijani[ liament call a referendum on the republic’ssej sion from the Soviet Union, according to [J viyar Nusibov, a Baku attorney. Azerbaijj lawmakers have already threatened to doji that if Soviet troops are not pulled out soon. Congress convenes second session with agenda full of old, new issues WASHINGTON (AP) — The 101st Congress con vened its second session Tuesday, facing an agenda suddenly expanded by the emergence of democracy in Eastern Europe and a plan to cut Social Security taxes at home. Lingering issues also abound, including child care, capital-gains taxes and deficit reduction. Not waiting for President Bush to send up his own budget and legislative proposals, the Senate almost im mediately began debating a far-reaching plan for clean ing up the air — a bill that is more costly and more sweeping than the president wants. Opposition is based more on geography and competing regional interests than on party lines. The House made plans for another confrontation on Wednesday, an attempt to override Bush’s veto of legis lation aimed at preventing the deportation of Chinese students who have sought refuge in the United States. The House origihally passed the bill on a 403-0 vote. “There really is no good reason to override the presi dent’s veto unless it is just straight-out politics,” said Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. He said Bush has done as much for the students through ad ministrative actions as the bill would do. But Republi cans were generally conceding Bush faces a one-sided defeat. The president, traveling in the Midwest, said he is hoping to renew a spirit of cooperation with Congress. But he attacked as “a sheep in wolfs clothing” an anti crime bill sponsored by Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D- Del., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “It will be tougher on law enforcement than on crimi nals,” Bush said of the bill. The measure generally would prohibit use of tainted evidence, bar racially dis criminatory executions and ban the sale of assault weapons. The first day of the session was marked by friendly reunions. Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas, told colleagues he’d nearly died of a pancreas ailment during the long break, and he accepted hugs and applause on the House floor. F ranee celebrates Snoopy He hlarec PARIS (AP) — The Frenchcel ebrated Snoopy on Tuesday, sav ing that happiness is a warn — even one that’s 40 yean On the other side of the Capitol, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., formally introduced a bill to reduce Social Security taxes — an idea that had prompted a full-scale White House attack when he proposed it last month. Moynihan says workers are being deceived be cause their Social Security taxes are being used to make the federal deficit appear far smaller than it is. In advance of Bush’s budget, which will be submitted on Monday, and his State of the Union message, which will follow on Jan. 31, three of the president’s top aides met with Republican senators to discuss the wealth of is sues facing Congress in this election year. Typewriter may help FBI crack case ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) — A junk dealer offered prayers and co operation as FBI agents searched his warehouse Tuesday looking for an old typewriter that could help solve the mail bomb killings of a judge and a civil rights lawyer. Wayne O’Ferrell ate lunch with FBI agents and accompanied them to his warehouse Tuesday af ternoon, one day after about 100 agents scoured O’Ferrell’s home, warehouse and abandoned store, about 75 miles from Montgomery in southeastern Alabama. O’Ferrell, 46, a one-time rural preacher, said he asked several members of his church “to pray for my family so that we can get through this thing, and I’ve asked them to pray tor the FBI to find whatever they are looking for.” FBI agent Chuck Archer said there have been no arrests and that three search warrants have been ap proved for property other than O’Ferrell’s. Agents unearthed the top of O’Ferrell’s home septic tank Tues day afternoon and began pumping out its contents. Authorities also plan to dig up a septic tank at the warehouse. Archer declined to describe O’Ferrell as a suspect. “He is one of many people we have interviewed,” the FBI agent said. Court records show O’Ferrell lost a lawsuit heard on appeal by U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Vance. The judge was killed Dec. 16 when a package bomb sent through the mail exploded at his home in suburban Birmingham. Robert Robinson, a black civil rights lawyer in Savannah, Ga., was killed two days later by another ex ploding package, and similar mail bombs were defused at the 11 th Cir cuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, where Vance served, and at National Association for the Advancement of Colored People headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla. FBI sources, who spoke on condi tion of anonymity, confirmed pub lished reports that typewritten cor respondence in O’Ferrell’s court case appears to match typewritten correspondence allegedly sent by the mail bomber. puppy ola. The beguiling beagle whoap pears in Charles Schulz’s comii strip “Peanuts” was honored witk a blockbuster retrospectivt worthy of the World War I flyinj ace, bird-lover and faithful friend to that round-headed kid Schulz, by the way, also was honored. He was named Cora mander of Arts and Letters, out of France’s highest awards fores cellence in the arts. “T hank you for being the ere ator of Snoopy, full of hiimorand with a zest for life,” Culture Min ister Jack Lang told Schulz. “Yom character is both mythical and he donistic, and he has taken ovei our collective consciousness am become a part of our everyda lives.” Schulz, beaming but appearin slightly embarrassed by theatten tion, said that during Snoopy war years when he battled the Red Baron, he once explained how he learned to speak French “He said he had a small touris phrase book, but he told me yon only really need to know one word, and that is, ‘Merci,’” Schuh said in English. Ceremonies took place at the Decorative Arts Museum, which honoring the whimsical dog nind ensit :rshi] ourjt its ow Re of the mitte< jresie Bu when senat dent, 5cow< Bake! throw Bu ators terme porte Th 32,OC State: woule stude their Unite In Chim N ByR orn with a retrospective featuring Snoopy memorabilia. Eve Dutton, director of specia events at Determined Produc tions, which co-sponsored the show with the Paris museum, sail Schulz was “shocked” when askec to participate in the show, which opens to the public Wednesday and runs through April 22. Craftsmen hold rally, denounce communism East Germans want free-market reform EAST BERLIN (AP) — More than 10,000 skilled workers held a rally Tuesday to denounce communism for killing East German crafts manship and to demand free-market reforms to revive it. “We absolutely and unconditionally need con version to a full market economy,” Burkhard Schmidt, spokesman for the Craftmen’s Union, told the Associated Press before the rally. Many of those attending also favored reunification with West Germany. “Better to close for four hours than forever,” said Lutz Scheibner, an electronics repairman. “We need to show the government we know what needs to be done.” The rally was called on short notice, despite the opposition of top union leaders still loyal to the Communist system that rewarded them with comfortable bureaucratic positions. While Hans Modrow, the Communist pre mier, and opposition leaders dicker over how to share power before free elections May 6, the gen eral attitude toward compromise has soured. Pro-democracy advocates from the Social Democratic Party and New Forum declared Tuesday they were not prepared to negotiate a role in the interim government and said coalition talks have been postponed. Opposition reluctance to prop up the govern ment reflects the atmosphere of uncertainty in East Germany, which does not have a unifying pro-democracy figure like Czechoslovakia’s Va clav Havel or Lech Walesa of Poland. Since they have no obvious alternative to the distrusted Communists, East Germans increa ingly look to the West and call for unificatio with prosperous W’est Germany. Up to 2,000 East Germans flee to the Westf ery day, bleeding the country of skilled worke and undermining chances for economic reco' ery. Weekly rallies by hundreds of thousands people have moved from demanding reform outright rejection of the Communist system tit has guided the nation through its existence. they Coar for 2' midd doesr undei M with a Direc split t T ence wante T Crow wouk C the A ADN, the official news agency, said a clash be tween “young leftists” and supporters of Germa unity was narrowly averted at the rally of mor than 100,000 people Monday in Leipzig, whet zeal for reform is strong. 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