Massacres Azerbaijan

Militants Thursday ignored new calls for a cease-fire in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and a prosecutor investigating a mass killing said 200 Azerbaijani bodies have been recovered. The prosecutor also charged for the first time that Armenia is holding hundreds of women and children hostage in the conflict. Armenian and Azerbaijani sources reported that overnight attacks left a dozen or so dead on each side in this deeply divided multi-ethnic region.

Azerbaijan's embattled president resigned on Friday amid mass protests, new offensives in Nagorno-Karabakh and accusations that he was to blame for the deaths of scores of Azerbaijanis at the hands of Armenian militants last week.

Azerbaijan's embattled president resigned on Friday amid mass protests, new offensives in Nagorno-Karabakh and accusations that he was to blame for the deaths of scores of Azerbaijanis at the hands of Armenian militants last week.

Militants Thursday ignored new calls for a cease-fire in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and a prosecutor investigating a mass killing said 200 Azerbaijani bodies have been recovered. The prosecutor also charged for the first time that Armenia is holding hundreds of women and children hostage in the conflict. Armenian and Azerbaijani sources reported that overnight attacks left a dozen or so dead on each side in this deeply divided multi-ethnic region.

In a quiet apartment building on a quiet Westwood street, Aida Ley knits through busy days and soundless nights. Customers come by appointment. She writes their patterns, finishes collars, binds seams. The women come early. They sink onto sofas against a bank of soft pillows. On a table, too sweet pastries, too strong coffee. Women have always knitted--plain, tough garments to be warm, to last.

Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, facing resurgent nationalism from many of the Soviet Union's ethnic minorities and communal violence in two of the country's republics, declared Sunday that, however liberal his policies, he is determined to uphold the unity of the country.