The World - News from Sept. 12, 1989

Workers in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan ended a weeklong strike protesting direct Kremlin control of the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Leaders of the Azerbaijan People’s Front, a nationalist group that called the strike more than a week ago, said that most of their political demands were met. The People’s Front will be officially recognized and allowed to speak at a special session of the republic’s legislature on Friday, a spokesman said in a call to Moscow from Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital. Azerbaijan, a mainly Muslim republic, is seeking to regain control of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is inhabited mainly by Armenians. To calm ethnic tensions, Moscow took direct control of the territory last winter.