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Page 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, September 6, 1988
World and Nation
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Trial may find Kremlin crooks
MOSCOW (AP) — Leonid I. 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
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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.
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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. An official U.S.rep
blamed the tragedy on crewstr
in a first-time combat situation
The 9,600-ton warship, t
first of the Navy’s high-tech 1
gis” cruisers deployed in thegn
was pulled out of the water*
alter the disaster and operated
the Arabian Sea. Sources saidt
Vincennes would not here
in effect reducing the U.S. fit
from 27 to 26 ships.
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