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Armenian nationalist gunmen took a Soviet guard detachment hostage after a fierce fight on the Turkish border. The Armenian news agency Armenpress said the newly elected 259-seat Parliament in Yerevan interrupted proceedings to send a group to try to secure the release of the soldiers and the return of their weapons. Separately, an explosion apparently set off by an Azerbaijani militant killed four people and wounded 10 on a passenger train near the Black Sea.

Afghanistan admitted that one of its warplanes accidentally bombed a Soviet border village, state-run Kabul Radio said. It said the Afghan air force jet encountered technical difficulties during a routine training mission and accidentally strayed into Soviet airspace, dropping bombs that left four people dead. Soviet news agencies had reported that a Soviet-made SU-25 fighter-bomber dropped up to four bombs on the village of Namadguti-Poen.

An explosion wrecked the headquarters of the Soviet Union's biggest anti-Communist coalition, and leaders of the movement on Friday declared themselves the victims of an act of terrorism they said could unleash a chain of political violence in Russia. "It seems that the biggest act of political terrorism in Moscow in many decades occurred last night," said Vladimir Boxer, one of the organizers of the Democratic Russia movement, which claims hundreds of thousands of supporters.

An explosion wrecked the headquarters of the Soviet Union's biggest anti-Communist coalition, and leaders of the movement on Friday declared themselves the victims of an act of terrorism they said could unleash a chain of political violence in Russia. "It seems that the biggest act of political terrorism in Moscow in many decades occurred last night," said Vladimir Boxer, one of the organizers of the Democratic Russia movement, which claims hundreds of thousands of supporters.

An unusual closed-door session of the Soviet legislature, called to seek ways of ending ethnic conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, adjourned abruptly Monday evening after Azerbaijani delegates stormed out in the middle of a speech by Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov. Gen.

Soviet troops, afraid that Azerbaijani militants would soon begin attacking Russian families in Baku, used artillery, tank and naval gunfire Wednesday evening to break a blockade of Baku's port so that ships carrying refugees, many of them Russians, can leave. A number of ships used by Azerbaijani militants to blockade the port for the past three days were sunk, according to reports from Baku, while others were observed on fire in Baku Bay.

Afghanistan admitted that one of its warplanes accidentally bombed a Soviet border village, state-run Kabul Radio said. It said the Afghan air force jet encountered technical difficulties during a routine training mission and accidentally strayed into Soviet airspace, dropping bombs that left four people dead. Soviet news agencies had reported that a Soviet-made SU-25 fighter-bomber dropped up to four bombs on the village of Namadguti-Poen.

At least 15 people were killed and 16 injured when a bomb blast ripped through a bus in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, the local Azerinform news agency reported. The bus was taking about 60 people from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi toward Agdam, a town on the border of the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh that is claimed by neighboring Armenia. The blast, caused by a homemade bomb, occurred 12.

After a 24-hour holiday lull, violence erupted anew Friday in the Soviet Caucasus, with the No. 2 official of Azerbaijan's Communist Party narrowly escaping assassination by grenade launcher. In other developments, a group of Soviet troops was ambushed in an early morning attack that wounded nine soldiers, and Armenians said military helicopters machine-gunned one of their villages in apparent reprisal.

A federal court jury on Wednesday awarded $50 million to the families of 137 passengers killed when a Korean Air Lines plane strayed into Soviet territory and was shot down six years ago. All 269 people aboard the plane were killed in the Sept. 1, 1983, disaster. The jury decided on punitive damages after returning a verdict that said KAL had committed willful misconduct.

After a 24-hour holiday lull, violence erupted anew Friday in the Soviet Caucasus, with the No. 2 official of Azerbaijan's Communist Party narrowly escaping assassination by grenade launcher. In other developments, a group of Soviet troops was ambushed in an early morning attack that wounded nine soldiers, and Armenians said military helicopters machine-gunned one of their villages in apparent reprisal.

At least 15 people were killed and 16 injured when a bomb blast ripped through a bus in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, the local Azerinform news agency reported. The bus was taking about 60 people from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi toward Agdam, a town on the border of the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh that is claimed by neighboring Armenia. The blast, caused by a homemade bomb, occurred 12.

Armenian nationalist gunmen took a Soviet guard detachment hostage after a fierce fight on the Turkish border. The Armenian news agency Armenpress said the newly elected 259-seat Parliament in Yerevan interrupted proceedings to send a group to try to secure the release of the soldiers and the return of their weapons. Separately, an explosion apparently set off by an Azerbaijani militant killed four people and wounded 10 on a passenger train near the Black Sea.

An unusual closed-door session of the Soviet legislature, called to seek ways of ending ethnic conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, adjourned abruptly Monday evening after Azerbaijani delegates stormed out in the middle of a speech by Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov. Gen.

Soviet troops, afraid that Azerbaijani militants would soon begin attacking Russian families in Baku, used artillery, tank and naval gunfire Wednesday evening to break a blockade of Baku's port so that ships carrying refugees, many of them Russians, can leave. A number of ships used by Azerbaijani militants to blockade the port for the past three days were sunk, according to reports from Baku, while others were observed on fire in Baku Bay.

A federal court jury on Wednesday awarded $50 million to the families of 137 passengers killed when a Korean Air Lines plane strayed into Soviet territory and was shot down six years ago. All 269 people aboard the plane were killed in the Sept. 1, 1983, disaster. The jury decided on punitive damages after returning a verdict that said KAL had committed willful misconduct.