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<text id=90TT1068>
<title>
Apr. 30, 1990: World Notes:Soviet Union
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 67
World Notes
SOVIET UNION
Biting Back At Watchdogs
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<body>
<p> "Down with Gorbachev!" some 10,000 protesters shouted within
earshot of the Kremlin. "Down with the KGB!" The demonstrators
had gathered to support criminal investigators Telman Gdlyan
and Nikolai Ivanov. The two became popular heroes last year
after publicly accusing Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev
of corruption; both were elected to parliament last spring. But
now they are accused of illegally detaining witnesses and
forcing confessions in a six-year probe of a multimillion-ruble
scandal involving racketeering and influence peddling in
Uzbekistan, which nailed the son-in-law of the late Communist
Party boss Leonid Brezhnev, among others.
</p>
<p> Last week a Supreme Soviet session agreed that Gdlyan and
Ivanov had broken the law by arresting family members of
suspected bribe takers. But the legislators stopped short of
lifting their parliamentary immunity so that prosecutors could
press charges against them. Noted former dissident Roy
Medvedev, who headed a Supreme Soviet inquiry into the affair:
"One thing is clear--they have no evidence that Ligachev took
bribes." The crowd outside the Kremlin, however, continued to
call for Ligachev's resignation.
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</body>
</article>
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