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...moves added up to a sweeping purge that apparently still has some way to go. Fourteen alleged coup plotters, including all seven surviving members of the so-called Emergency Committee that ran the putsch, were formally accused of treason, an offense punishable by imprisonment or death. The latest to be arrested was Anatoli Lukyanov, former chairman of the Supreme Soviet, who was ! taken into custody on Friday. During a session of the parliament earlier in the week devoted largely to finger pointing or to attempts by some members to convince others that they had nothing to do with the conspiracy...
...gigantic tasks of rounding up the plotters, alleviating the economic and social chaos that had given the excuse for the coup, and working out a modus vivendi with Yeltsin. As for the surviving plotters, all of whom had been arrested by week's end, they were facing not only treason trials but also the knowledge that their mismanaged coup had intensified the move toward democracy and decentralization they had tried to stop. The three days that shook the world were over...
Inside the party, meanwhile, the newest trend is sternly anti-reform. Hard- liners calling themselves the Communist Initiative Movement met in Moscow at the end of June to demand that the "bourgeois leadership" -- meaning Gorbachev & Co. -- be expelled and even brought to trial on charges of "high treason...
Early in the week General Blagoje Adzic, an ethnic Serb and the army's Chief of Staff, issued a chilling statement on national television: "We have to accept war because the alternative -- surrender or treason -- does not exist for us." The cease-fire imposed the next day seemed to contradict Adzic's warning...
Roughly half the Politburo's 26 former members are under investigation for possible treason, corruption and abuse of power. But court inquiries have been hampered by a shortage of investigators, legal questions about what exactly constituted crime in the east, and missing evidence. Alexander Schalck- Golodkowski, 58, formerly in charge of the foreign-exchange procurement agency, is being probed for fraud in the disappearance of $13 billion in East German government funds. Prosecutors have been stymied because a ton of files were hastily shredded after Schalck-Golodkowski fled to the West in 1989 to escape arrest by East German reformers...