The World - News from March 29, 1988
Work stoppages throughout the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Soviet Azerbaijan halted rail traffic and industry over the weekend, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported in Moscow. Freight yard workers in Stepanakert left 93 railway cars unloaded, Pravda said. Stepanakert is the capital of the autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where ethnic Armenians have been demanding Kremlin action to link the region with the neighboring Soviet republic of Armenia. Soviet authorities ruled last week that there would be no change in the boundaries of the disputed region.
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