M P^X/kT" Cfc 1 \ C?" (P^ Associated Press JL ^1 W* w w JL/ w Edited by Brandon Loomis Azerbaijan threatens to secede from union MOSCOW - Hundreds of thou sands of wailing, black-clad Azer baijanis marched through Baku on Monday to mourn people killed when Soviet troops put down a nationalist revolt, and the republic’s legislature threatened secession if Moscow did not pull out its soldiers. In another move in defiance of President Mikhail Gorbachev, local legislators declared Moscow’s state of emergency void, and vowed to keep up crippling strikes until troops leave. Also Monday, Communist leaders from Soviet Armenia and Azerbaijan took a tentative step toward ending 10 days of ethnic warfare, agreeing to withdraw aimed groups from areas along their border, Tass said. But activists in Armenia and Azerbaijan said they were skeptical the truce would be kept. The official Soviet news agency reported 12 more people were killed in ethnic clashes Monday on the bor der of the two republics, raising the toll since Jan. 13 to 167. Soviet offi cials said 83 of those were from the Soviet assault on the Azerbaijani capital on Saturday or skirmishes the previ ous day. More than 500 have been wounded in the conflicts. An emergency overnight session of the Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet legislature demanded the full with drawal of Soviet troops from the re public, with the exception of border districts with Armenia, said Baku lawyer Viliyad Mamedov, who at tended the 11 1/2-hour overnight session. Lawmakers also demanded the lifting of the curfew and state of emergency in Baku and other areas of Azerbaijan, which Moscow imposed without the approval of Azerbaijani authorities, Mamedov said in a tele phone interview. If those demands are not met, Mamedov said, the legislature will consider voting to secede from the Soviet Union. At Monday’s mass rally in Baku, demonstrators carried posters read ing, “Gorbachev is the butcher of the Azerbaijani people,” and “Azer baijanis will not succumb to tanks,” said ShainGajiyev,a Baku journalist. Witnesses said throngs of mourn ers numbering as many as 2 million bore coffins of Azerbaijanis killed in the weekend assault down the narrow streets and major thoroughfares to -4 4 — All the people of Az erbaijan and Baku are in tears and mourning. official Baku Radio -9 1 Lenin Square, now renamed Free dom Square in honor of the Azer baijani nationalist cause. The mourners, wearing black and carrying black-bordered portraits of some of the victims, then buried the victims at Kirov Park, overlooking the Caspian Sea. “All the people of Azerbaijan and Baku arc in tears and mourning,’’ official Baku Radio said in a broad cast monitored by the BBC in Lon don. Soviet troops and police did not interfere in the funeral, said Leila Yunusov, a spokeswoman for the Social Democratic Group, an infor mal Azerbaijani political organiza tion. ., Foreign reporters were barred from the region, so it was dil ficult to deter mine the exact death toll or reconcile conflicting information. Military officials said no one had been killed in Baku for the last two days, and residents said the Soviet troops seemed to have the city under control. No armed clashes with troops had been reported Monday, Gajiyev said, although there were still reports of scattered gunfire. There were conflicting reports from the Soviet-Iranian border, where Azerbaijanis have tom down many of the barriers. The newspaper Izvestia said 40,(XX) Azerbaijanis crossed into Iran on Sunday evening alone, but Iranian media said Soviet troops clamped down on the border and were not allowing any Azerbaijanis out. Interfax, an affiliate of Radio Moscow, said unidentified extrem ists threatened Russian residents of the city with violence unless they left, and continued to threaten to blow up oil tankers in Baku’s harbor unless the troops were withdrawn. Soviet TV on Monday evening suggested the government launch negotiations with the Azerbaijani People’s Front, the nationalist organi zation behind much of the unrest. The nationwide evening news program pointed out that since the People’s Front controls some areas of Azer baijan, it is the logical partner for peace talks. It was not clear whether the People’s Front and Armenian activists partici pated in the negotiations in the Arme nian town of Ycraskh. High-ranking Armenian and Az erbaijani Communist Party and gov ernment officials also agreed to re pair disrupted communications lines. At a protest march by 2,000 Azer baijanis in Moscow on Monday, one demonstrator carried a sign reading ‘ ‘Comrades! In Baku more than 9,000 people were killed.” A gathering Monday in the Azer baijani town of Pushkino to moum those slain ended in mass rioting, Tass said. American Indians protest attempts to steal treaty rights SALT LAKE CITY - More than 200 American Indians marched to the state capito! Monday to protest what they view as a county group’s at tempts to steal their treaty rights. The marchers held an incense burning ceremony at the top of the capitol steps and were awaiting an appearance by Gov. Norm Bangerter. He shunned last week’s meeting of the Wisconsin Counties Association, an organization of county officials from 13 states which is forming a coalition on American Indian treaty issues. The demonstrators included San Juan County Commissioner Mark Maryboy, a Navajo; Luke Duncan, chairman of the Ute Tribal Business Committee; and Ute medicine man Bear Boy. ‘ ‘The WCA is trying to stir up the treaties,” said Lorenzo Black, a Ute from the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in eastern Utah. “All they’re after is the land and the resources. The only thing preventing them from getting these things is the treaties.” Rosella Hunt, an Ogden, Utah, resident who provides support serv ices for American Indians, said chang ing the treaties would be a violation of federal law. “You could call this the 1990Trail of Tears,” she said, referring to the federal govemi^nt’s forced move ment of Cherokee Indians from the southern Appalachian Mountains to Oklahoma in the late 1830s. “We’re still fighting for the rights of our ancestors,” Hunt said. The marchers chanted and carried placards reading, “To abolish trea ties is to abolish the Constitution,” and “Leave Indian treaties alone.” On the first day of the WC A meet ing Thursday, Indian rights activists, protesting the conference’s exclusion of American Indian leaders, forced a half-day recess. The meetings resumed Friday behind locked doors and under guard, but members of the Ute Tribe staged another protest. The confer ence adjourned* Saturday. Leaders from a half-dozen tribes said they would convene a national meeting of all American Indian tribes in Sioux City, Iowa, later this year to counter plans by the WCA to lobby Congress to change federal Indian policy. 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The margin of error for the overall survey was plus or minus 4.6 percent age points, and 5.2 percentage points for the smaller survey of 345 regis tered voters.