TAJIK TROOPS ARREST TAJIK REGIONAL LEADER.

In yet anotherindication of the collapse of any state authority in Tajikistan,members of a Tajik battalion are reported to have seized the headof one regional executive committee and are holding him as a hostage,Interfax said June 30. A commission of the Tajik government hasbeen dispatched to the region to find out what the hostage takerswant. In other developments there, Dushanbe protested to Afghanistanabout the continued flow of fighters across the border into Tajikistan,Russian radio reported June 29.

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