Soviet Asian republic lifts state of emergency DUSHANBE, U S S R (AF) Angry demonstrators forced Tad/.hlkistan's parliament to lift a statu of emer gency Monday, whlln protusturs in Georgia worn warned to lay down tlioir arms or fai n "radii al minis urns." I’ollticnl and ethnic turmoil revorfieraled across the crumbling Soviet Union Monday Russian officials warned Moldavia against harming ethnic Slavs in their bitter dispute in that western republic, saving they would take any legal steps net essary "to defend the rights, lives, honor and dignity of ethnic Russians And the upheaval apparently worried Soviet Presi dent Mikhail S Gorbachev On Monday, he reiterated a vow to resign if the 12 remaining republic s do not agree on a common market, according to the Tass news agency "I will immediately leave my post because, without integration, the iountry is threatened with collapse unci this is a lethal path I myself will not Imi cnnni'i ted with such a course," (kirbuchev was quotixi as saying In other developments • Lawmakers in the Central Asian republic of Turk menia scheduled an ()< t 2I> referendum on indepen dence. Turkmenia, Russia and Kazakhstan are the only Soviet republics that have not formally declared inde pendence. although many of the independence state ments an' seen merely as establishing bargaining posi tions • Teat hers staged a brief strike on the Soviet Kuril is land of Iturup, vowing never to give up the territories seized from Japan after World War II. • Thousands of people rallied in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku demanding new parliamentary elections, the Interfax news agency said. Some also called for a mo bilization to Tight Armenians, despite a cease-fire. • Election officials in the Georgian-controlled territory of Abhnzia reported widespread fraud in balloting for u now legislature and said only 39 out of 230 seats could t>e filled. Tass reported. • The broadcasting center in the Azerbaijan-controlled region of Nakhichevan was destroyed by mortar fire in a running ethnic dispute TV and radio transmissions were knot ked out and may take many months and mil lions of rubles to restore, local officials told Tass. • Three days of demonstrations ended in the Chechen Ingush autonomous republic in Georgia after a Russian delegation arrived to mediate in an ethnic dispute at tlie retjuesl of local officials, according to Tass. FAST FAST FAST FAST AT THE UO BOOKSTORE Everything is FAST these days...fast food, fast cars. So why wait for your pictures to come hack from a slew photo lab? 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The reform package rejected Monday would have over hauler) Japan's election system and tightened controls on poli tic al funds. A parliamentary committee blocked a vote on the package during tine current legislative session, which ends Friday, and failed to place it on the agenda of the next session. Kyodo News Service said Kaifu had threatened to dis solve Parliament's lower house and call general elections if the decision were allowed to stand It quoted unnamed sources as saying Kaifu's party hud ugreed to negotiate the package with opponents. The ri:forms includi; creating single-seat election districts to replace tho multiple-momber districts now used in voting for Parliament's lower house. Since members of the same party often battle one another in these districts, critics suy campaigns oiten focus on pork barrel politics and not on is sues. But critics of the plan includ ed opposition members, who said it would ullow Kaifu’s Lib eral Democrats to win landslide victories. Currently, tho top several vote-getters in a district all gain seats, meaning an op position candidate could run behind a LiberaI Democrat and still be elected. Opponents of the plan, in cluding many Liberal Demo crats unwdling to give up their seats, said single-member dis tricts will not end money-domi nated politics. Backers of the bill were an gry. Homo Affairs Minister Akira I'ukida complained that he had not boon informod the package would bo dropped. “It’s non sense," said Masayoshi Ito, a former foreign minister and a proponent of the bill.