World IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : 12 Killed as Ethnic Unrest Flares Anew

Four Soviet police officers were killed by Armenian militants in the southern republic of Azerbaijan, and five soldiers were stoned and beaten to death by a mob in Central Asia, the official Tass news agency reported. Altogether, 12 people, including civilians, died and dozens suffered injuries in the two clashes, Tass said. The Central Asian clash took place in the Uzbek city of Namangan, a hotbed of Muslim militancy. The Azerbaijani incident occurred near Nagorno-Karabakh, an autonomous region where ethnic strife has raged between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.