The World - News from March 17, 1988
Extremists are provoking disturbances in Uzbekistan among Crimean Tatars who want to return to their traditional homeland, the newspaper Pravda Vostoka reported. The Communist Party paper for the Central Asian republic said that “noticeable material losses” have resulted, but it did not mention any casualties. Pravda Vostoka has said that some Tatars would be allowed to return to the Crimea.
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