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Brezhnev’s son- in-law went on trial Monday charged with taking $1.1 million in bribes in a case expected to bare corruption in the highest Kremlin circles. If con victed, he could face a firing squad. The trial of Yuri M. Churbanov, 51, an ex-first deputy interior minister, is clearly in line with So viet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s drive to break with the cronyism and corruption now seen as endemic under Brezhnev, who ran the Soviet Union as Communist Party chief from 1964 until his death in 1982. Churbanov, who is charged with bribe-taking and abuse of office, is an example of the ‘stagna tion period,’ when a person reached high posi tion not because of his merits but due to his fam ily connections, the party daily Pravda said last week. “Glasnost and democracy will help to avoid Churbanovism and anything similar to it,” Pravda said. The case against Churbanov and eight co-de fendants, being heard by the three-member mili tary tribunal of the Soviet Supreme Court, may also have a political aim — to discredit remaining members of the Kremlin Old Guard who flou rished under Brezhnev. The trial began with Churbanov and the oth ers sitting in the dock guarded by five young sol diers. The dark-haired Churbanov, dressed in a gray jacket and collarless black shirt, stared de fiantly ahead, his head held high. Asked by the presidingjudge, Army Maj. Cen. Mikhail Marov, to stand and identify himself, Churbanov spoke in a barely audible voice. When he said he was a former Communist Party member, Marov asked him if he had been ex pelled, and Churbanov answered, “In connection with the present case.” The trial is expected to last at least six weeks. Churbanov, who married Brezhnev’s daugh ter Galina in 1971 after a previous marriage ended in divorce, is a central figure in a colossal embezzlement and bribery scheme authorities say was centered on the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan. According to Pravda, beginning in the 1970s cotton harvests in Uzbekistan were padded by al most 1 million tons annually, with the govern ment made to pay for the non-existent crop by corrupt officials including Uzbek party boss Sha- raf Rashidov, who died in 1983. “Today it has been proven that the cotton bar ons stole more than 4 billion rubles ($6.34 billion) from the state, half of which they stuffed into their own pockets,” Pravda reported earlier this year in a sensational expose on the fraud p; Churbanov, who held the rank of coloi>H eral in the Moscow-based ministry res[j||i for police and law enforcement, wasajy hungry epicure who became a key actorii ing the racket, Pravda said. "vvr t "Having suc h a ‘friend’ was not onlvanj tage for Rashidov and his group — itwas| important,” the paper said. Churbanov, who was a mechanic before] a low-level Interior Ministry job in 196] cused of accepting bribes totaling $1.1 That sum is the equivalent of 270 years' 7u the average Soviet factory worker. Officials announced Churbanov’s ammr February 1987. He was fired from his Interior Ministry job in 1984, but reportecK employed as deputy chief of political adn: ®® 1 tion for the ministry’s uniformed security NEV until September 1986. rgr p Along with Churbanov, eight formerloHtAi tan officials are going on trial, including Interior Minister Khaidar Yakhyaev, twoig deputies and three ex-regional police chief! The evidence against the accused fills llj umes, and five volumes were needed toste the indictment. A total of 501 witnessesartj tioned in the indictment. Mentor’s death could slow Islamic law ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — The death of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq could slow the spread of Islamic law in Pakistan, a cause he fervently advanced during 11 years as this Moslem country’s leader. Zia, an army general who died Aug. 17 in a plane crash, had made the “Islamization” of Pakistani so ciety a pillar of his policy. But he faced opposition from some politicians, members of the middle class and others. With his death, the fate of a further expan sion of Islamic law in Pakistan is in doubt. Islamic law is interpreted with dif ferent stringency from one Islamic nation to another. Zia’s Islamic laws included a ban on the consumption of alcohol, the provision of flogging and stoning as punishment for such crimes as drinking and adultery, and a 2.5 percent tax on the rich to help the poor. Zia failed, however, to codify into Pakistani law Islam’s opposition to collecting interest payments on loans. Punishment by flogging was rare, despite its presence in the legal code, and there were no stonings. Zia was the most enthusiastic of all of Pakistan’s recent rulers in apply ing Islamic law, said Professor Mah- mood Ahmad Chazi, a leading scholar at the International Islamic University in Islamabad and the man who led prayers at Zia’s funeral. “There are some parties that are enthusiastic, and there are some par ties that are lukewarm,” Gha/i said. In May, Zia dissolved parliament, citing corruption, laxity and law makers’ failure to promote Islamic law over a three-year period as justi fication for his move. If “someone not as enthusiastic as Zia” takes over, Chazi said, the pace of Islamization will be slow in this 98 percent Moslem nation. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, the new president of Pakistan, and his care taker Cabinet met a week after Zia’s death and pledged to continue Isla mization. But nationwide elections are scheduled for Nov. 16, and that could strongly affect government policy. Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who could become prime minister if her party wins the elec tions, has spoken out strongly against Zia’s brand of Islamization, saying no one should impose per sonal religious views on the country. He then issued a presidential or der in June that decreet! the legal code of Islam to be the supreme law of Pakistan and expanded court powers to review laws for conformity with the Koran, the Moslem holy book. Bhutto was quoted at time as say ing that “Islam, like in the past, is again being used to perpetu; pressive rule.” Zia said the decree wouldi feet the rights of non-Motla the country’s business contrac other nations. The order expires later OkI unless reaffirmed by the / ment. I ><T mmu the i elatitmshipbi, Islam and the country's legalsi has been .t central question I 9 1’/ kvhei Pakistan was cron home foi Moslems on the 1 subcontinent. Many Islamic primiplesv shrined in law before Zia i power. System douses fire at nuclear reactor MOSCOW (AP) — Fire broke out early Monday at a Lithuanian nu clear power plant but no radiation was released and automatic safety systems extinguished the flames, Tass reported. The official news agency said the the blaze began at 12:50 a.m. in a control cable of the second reactor of the Ignalina power plant in Lithu ania, a Soviet republic on the Baltic Sea. Erik Pozdyshev, chief dispatcher of the Soviet Atomic Power Ministry, told Tass the reactor’s safety systems automatically kicked in, and that the fire had already been extinguished by the time firefighters arrived. No radiation escaped and there were no injuries among the public or plant employees, Pozdyshev said. The reactor, one of two at the plant, was shut down after the accident, Tass said. The news agency’s prompt re porting of the fire reflected the new official policy under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s drive for glas nost, of keeping the public better in formed of accidents. “Considering the heightened pub lic interest in nuclear reactor opera tions, which is quite understandable after the Chernobyl accident, we de cided to inform the public about what has happened at the Ignalina station at once,” Pozdyshev said. The Soviet Union waited days be fore informing the world of the April 26, 1986, explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. That accident killed 31 people and led to a major re-evaluation of the safety of nuclear power in the Soviet Union, and in many other countries. On Thursday, the government newspaper Izvestia reported that Lithuania’s Cabinet had ordered construction stopped on a third re actor at Ignalina. World briefs Boat fire overwhelms 25 firefighters LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fire in the hold of a 500-foot freighter caused 24 firefighters to seek treatment for heat exhaustion and sent one other to a hospital because of chest pains, officials said Sunday. The fire, which took 1 ‘/a hours to extinguish, was blamed on an electrical malfunction in the docked container ship Waar- drecht, city Fire Department spokesman Jim Wells said. Twenty-four of 80 firefigh who battled the blaze treated at the scene for heau haustion as record-high tempe tures al>ove 100 degree: pounded the heat of the flar| Wells said. One firefighter was taken hospital in stable condition evaluation of chest pains, W4 said. A damage estimate wasn't I mediately available, Wells said USS Vincennes begins voyage honu its the MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The missile cruiser that mistak enly shot down an Iranian jetliner in the Persian Gulf is on its way home in the first U.S. force re duction in the region since the Iran-Iraq cease-fire took hold. France has also begun planned naval cutbacks in gulf region. British officials said a Royal Navy destroyer was badly dam aged when it collided with a Brit ish cargo ship it was to escort. The USS Vincennes was offi cially detached Sunday from the Navy’s Joint Task Force in the Middle East for a 13,000-mile voyage to San Diego, where it had been based until April, [ sources in the gulf said, speak on condit ion < >i anonymity. The Vincennes shot down: Iranian A300 Airbus on Juh killing all 290 people aboard mistook the jet for an Iranian 14 fighter. 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