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This week the most famous defendant netted in the five-year Uzbek investigation will go on trial before the military tribunal of the U.S.S.R.'s Supreme Court in Moscow. Yuri Churbanov, 51, Brezhnev's son-in-law and a former First Deputy Minister of the Interior, stands accused of accepting more than $1 million in bribes from Uzbek officials during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Eight other officials will be in the dock, including the former Uzbek Interior Minister and several regional police chiefs. If found guilty, the defendants could be sentenced to death. Churbanov's wife Galina...
Nonetheless, high-level indignation over the Churbanov affair and the moral decay of the Brezhnev years was registered last week in Pravda. In a scathing article titled "The Son-in-Law and His Clan," Churbanov was depicted as a vain and ambitious man of limited abilities who exploited his connection with Brezhnev to climb up the hierarchy of the Soviet police. The newspaper made clear that he was only a tool in the hands of others, who were operating a mammoth racket in Uzbekistan to falsify cotton-production reports and swindle the state...
WORST THEME SONG. Although intelligently conducted by Kitty Dukakis' father, retired associate director of the Boston Pops Harry Ellis Dickson, Fanfare for Michael Dukakis was a freeze-dried composition by Corporate Composer John Williams, also responsible for NBC's bloated theme song. Dubbed Fanfare for a Son-in-Law, the piece brings to mind Mark Twain's crack about Wagner's music being "better than it sounds...
...Dawkins, 67, captured the nomination by getting more votes than two white candidates combined. Declaring that he would run a "conservative" but not a "black" campaign, Dawkins, a former Democrat who left the party in 1972, declined to accept the widespread assumption that nobody can beat Robb, a son-in-law of Lyndon B. Johnson. Says Dawkins: "I am a preacher. I believe in miracles...
...lame sequels and sci-fi thrillers without art or heart. However conscientiously Ron Miller ran the shop, he was no match for Lucas and Spielberg. As if by osmosis, these young outsiders had learned the master's lessons of film artistry and audience manipulation. Miller was Disney's son-in-law, but Lucas and Spielberg were Walt's true heirs...