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There was more death and damage in Alma-Ata than was at first reported in the Soviet media. According to Nazarbaev and Interior Minister Grigory Knyazev, up to 3,000 youths participated in the demonstrations, significantly more than the "several hundred" reported in the Soviet press. They also said that two people were killed, a student and an auxiliary policeman, not one, as previously stated. Both died from head injuries, but the officials did not specify whether the injuries were caused by rioters' stones or policemen's clubs. An additional 200 were injured, Nazarbaev said, and 100 were "detained...
...spending. Barred by law from running again, he must announce the P.R.I. candidate sometime this year for the September 1988 presidential election. Open campaigning is frowned upon, but three men are touted as front runners: Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez, a former governor of the state of Mexico; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz; and Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Minister of Budget and Planning. The P.R.I., traditionally uses lavish patronage and pork-barrel politics to ensure an impressive margin of victory...
...Wambaugh, the former Los Angeles cop who writes well about the police (The Blue Knights, The Onion Field), attempts to establish a gothic mood. He associates the feeling with eastern Pennsylvania's brooding Germanic influences and forbidding estate architecture. His competition, Philadelphia Inquirer Reporter Loretta Schwartz-Nobel, prefers the interior decoration of the not-so-new journalism. She has had the doubtful advantage of interviewing the imprisoned criminals in the case, and likes to titillate readers with her reactions: "That night, after falling into a troubled sleep, I had my first dream about William Bradfield. He had escaped from prison...
...PHOTOGRAPHY: "I have no interest in abstract expressionism. It's a kind of interior decoration, a kind of flower painting like the photographs of Robert Maplethorpe simplifying the complexities of sexuality--turning a penis into a lily, asses into pears...
Still, the Kremlin had plenty of invective left for its enemies at home. In arresting Churbanov, 50, Brezhnev's son-in-law and First Deputy Minister of the Interior from 1980 to 1984, Moscow continued its crackdown on official misdeeds. Gorbachev has repeatedly attacked lax ethical standards under Brezhnev, who died in 1982, and has given top priority to rooting out corruption. If convicted, Churbanov could face 15 years in prison or even death for accepting bribes...