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...most dreaded institution in the country, the KGB security service, is being whittled down to manageable size. Its former chairman, coup plotter Vladimir Kryuchkov, is in prison, and its 230,000 uniformed troops have been transferred to the regular armed forces...
...State of Emergency, ostensibly headed by Yanayev. Actually, this gray and ineffectual apparatchik was only a figurehead; the real power probably was held by Kryuchkov, Pugo and Yazov, plus possibly lesser-known figures. Some of Russian republic president Boris Yeltsin's aides later fingered Baklanov as the chief plotter. The committee announced that it would rule by decree for six months, and began setting up some of the machinery of dictatorship. All newspapers except for nine pro-coup sheets were ordered to stop publishing, political parties were suspended and protest demonstrations banned. Muscovites going to work or to shop Monday...
...SINKER by Len Deighton (HarperCollins; $21.95). The master plotter winds up his six-volume espionage saga about British agent Bernard Samson and his spying wife Fiona, whose defection to East Germany is finally explained...
...heiress was foiled years ago; now the same man tries to commit the same crime, this time with the aid of the naive narrator. An attempt is made to bribe the woman's bodyguard; when he refuses, the malefactors kidnap his young daughter with catastrophic results. As a plotter, Vine could study Rendell; as a student of psychology, she can give lessons to anyone...
...there is smellier laundry in his hamper than the laundry he thought was in Rev. Bakker's." A mysterious allusion to people living in "glass churches" suggested that Grutman was slyly fingering Televangelist Robert Schuller of Garden Grove, Calif., and Crystal Cathedral fame. Grutman eventually confirmed that the mysterious plotter was not Schuller but Jimmy Swaggart...