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Once upon a time, the surest way for a Western journalist to end an interview with a Soviet official was to ask about factionalism in the Kremlin, shortages in the stores or rumors of unrest somewhere in the south. The official's face, hardly radiant to begin with, would become a mask of reproof that emitted, like a recorded announcement, a curt lecture on the inadmissibility of slander against the U.S.S.R. and interference in its internal affairs...
...past month, Kremlin officials had promised that a radical strategy for economic modernization would be unveiled as early as May Day. But Gorbachev decided against such a quick fix. "If someone at the top says we should just raise prices and have shock therapy, don't believe them," he said in Sverdlovsk. "If we are going to do something like raise prices, we'll do it together, as we promised." Aware of overwhelming public opposition to radical reform, he was out to calm fears about such a restructuring and to initiate a nationwide discussion on what it might entail...
With these signs that the West would not take sides with Lithuania, an antiblockade commission was set up in Vilnius to seek ways around the two- week-old oil-and-gas embargo ordered by Gorbachev. It was also exploring possible food-for-oil swaps. But with the Kremlin in control of the railroads, such schemes were unlikely to break Moscow's squeeze...
...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...
...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...