World IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Pipeline Carrying Gas to Armenia Cut
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Gas supplies to Armenia have been cut as a result of the ethnic conflict, causing acute shortages, the government newspaper Izvestia said. The report said the main pipeline from the neighboring republic of Azerbaijan was shut down after fighting in August near the border. Izvestia said fuel supplies in Armenia were running low. Dozens of Azerbaijanis and Armenians have been killed and wounded in the ethnic clashes.
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