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...Tadzhik Telegraph Agency, the official news source of the republic, the Russian deputy editor says only 39 Armenians actually arrived in Dushanbe after the January pogrom in Baku, and every one of them stayed with either friends or relatives. The rumor of the 2,500 was never even remotely true, he claims. Elsewhere we are told that Tadzhik militants methodically phoned threats to every single family in the phone listings whose name sounded Armenian. "They called my son," says a middle-age Russian woman whose husband, now dead, was Armenian, "and they said, 'You are Armenians; you had better leave...
...Kremlin last week, a Brazilian journalist called out the question on everyone's mind. Would Gorbachev confirm the report broadcast around the globe by CNN that he was planning to quit as Communist Party chief? Gorbachev listened to the translation with a puzzled look, then smiled. "Many rumors and suppositions are circulating worldwide," he said, gesticulating with his hands for emphasis. "All this is groundless. It has come into vogue in the international press to set rumor mills working as soon as we approach a regular plenum of the party Central Committee...
...build their popular support from the public's discontent and anxiety. The Soviet leader, they urged, must learn the lessons of the East European revolution and come down firmly on the side of radical reform, instead of straddling the fence between liberals and conservatives. In fact, a second rumor was circulating in Moscow last week of an imminent purge of the party's ruling Politburo. The most frequently cited name was that of conservative Yegor Ligachev, who came under harsh attack in the pages of the weekly Moscow News. Deputy editor in chief Vitali Tretyakov lambasted Ligachev for supporting...
...foreign currency markets the value of the dollar surged; on Wall Street the stock market took a quick plunge. White House officials pleaded ignorance, world leaders were puzzled, and in Moscow (where CNN is seen in many government offices) phones jangled all night as people traded information on the rumor...
After Hurst's report was aired, other news organizations scrambled to confirm it but came up empty. None of the three major wire services -- A.P., U.P.I. and Reuters -- reported the rumor until the worldwide reaction became a story in its own right. All three networks gave the resignation story prominent play at the beginning of their evening news-casts on Tuesday. The following day's New York Times and Washington Post downplayed the rumor by encasing it in stories on the political and financial reactions...