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July 11, 1988
By FELICITY BARRINGER, Special to the New York Times

MOSCOW, July 10— ”Our young women greeted the soldiers with flowers when they came in a few months ago,” a Yerevan resident, Samson Tomazyan, said today, a few minutes before he rose to address an angry crowd gathered at Moscow’s Armenian cemetery. ”They won’t be giving them flowers anymore.”
On July 5, the sporadic violence spawned by a resurgent territorial dispute between Armenia and neighboring Azerbaijan came home to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. A 22-year-old demonstrator killed and 36 were wounded during a strike that shut down the main airport for at least 24 hours.
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July 19, 1988
By FELICITY BARRINGER, Special to the New York Times

MOSCOW, July 18— The Soviet Government today rejected appeals that it accommodate a southern enclave’s desire to break away from the republic of Azerbaijan, the press agency Tass said.
News of the unanimous decision was withheld from the main evening news broadcast, and a news conference that had been called to explain the decision of the emergency session of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the executive committee of the national legislature, was abruptly canceled.
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