The World - News from July 6, 1988

Widespread strikes closed factories for a second day in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, where residents are angry over a territorial dispute with the neighboring republic of Azerbaijan, journalists in the city said in telephone calls to Moscow. Armenia is demanding that it be given control of the Azerbaijani enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is 80% Armenian. Meanwhile, in the Soviet republic of Estonia, protesters reportedly gathered more than 6,000 signatures demanding the release of three political prisoners who were arrested for demanding publication of the 1939 Soviet-German pact. That agreement placed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania under Soviet control.