| Show 14 A The Salt Lake Tribune Friday July 1 Soviet Editor Tells Meet of Corrupt Delegates 1988 4 Gdlup Greeks J Porubcansky Associated Press Writer MOSCOW — A reformist magazine editor told the Communist Party conference Thursday he had proof some of the delegates representing corruption-riddle- d Uzbekistan had taken bribes But the republic's party chief in an apparent reference to the editor Vitaly Korotich of the weekly Ogon-yo- k complained that demagogues are operating "under the cover of By Mark All Things Considered I'd Rather Walk Twenty-fou- perestroika" A source privy to the percent of American adults r report they have never flown on a commercial aircraft Among those who have not graduated from high school the figure for non-- f tiers rises to 47 percent V' CS4U: The Gdjup Onjuuzilion CI9SS Im AflgeksTimei Syndicate closed-doo- r proceedings said Korotich refused to divulge the names of the delegates his magazine was accusing although he turned over documents to the conference Credentials Committee to support his allegations The exchange between the editor and the Uzbekistan party chief in separate speeches to the nationwide party conference focused attention d on the power of the Soviet press under Mikhail S Gorbachev and signaled that entrenched officials aren't safe from public new-foun- lk Foreign Briefs j Cosmonauts Fail to Fix Scope MOSCOW (UFI) — Two Soviet cos-K- v tnonauts spent more than five hours the orbiting Mir space Thursday but failed to repair a telescope when a damaged especially designed wrench broke the n y Official Tass news agency said Vladimir Titov and Musa Man- rov who have been on board the £ iir since late December were in their space repair mission hen the wrench snapped as they trying to replace a faulty detec-jr'$- t unit on the multimillion-dolla- r £ere instrument The cosmonauts spent a total of five hours and 10 minutes outside the space station trying to fix the Kvant observatory's TTM telescope a joint manufacturing effort between Britain the Netherlands and the Soviet Union The Soviet news agency Tass said the detector unit failed two months scienago and it took earth-boun- d tists weeks to design and manufacture special tools to replace the unit that actually guides the telescope Mozambique Rebels Raid Zimbabwe : t HARARE Zimbabwe (AP) — rebels raided villages in putheastem Zimbabwe killing one :rsnn and ininrinc two nthprs tin said Thursday About 30 armed Mozambique National Resistance rebels drove 20 cattle across the border into Mozambique after ransacking villages and homesteads in the Chisumbanje area near Chipinge about 27S miles southeast of Harare police said f mt i Known iay ii meir i ne guernuas aiso Portuguese acronym Renamo stole fee m i Korotich whose magazine is one of those exploring the frontiers of Gorbachev's policy of greater openness told delegates that evidence of had been furnished to the magazine by government investibribe-takin- gators But according to a report by Tass the official news agency he said they could not be held accountable because of an interlocking system of overview by courts and the Communist Party "The investigation had the right to inform party bodies about serious suspicions against party members" Korotich was quoted as saying "Until the party bodies considered the issue of the suspects' party membership their cases as a rule were not handed over to the court" Korotich said "A vicious circle emerged: people who could not be brought to party account could not be tried without being tried they could not be accused in the press" Ogonyok charged that acceptance of bribes by delegates to the general Dem-janju- k mosphere" pervaded the court that found him guilty of mutilating and killing death camp inmates The retired Ohio autoworker's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reverse his conviction "di e to lack of proof and much more than substantial doubt" that he was the brutal Razumovsky reported that an investigation by prosecutors and the party Control Committee would be necessary to determine whether the allegations made by Ogonyok could be substantiated Uzbekistan party chief Rafik in his speech to the conference sharply criticized the rampant corruption allowed under former Uzbek party boss Sharaf Rashidov "But I am strongly against demagogy which can sometimes be heard under the cover of struggle for perestroika" he said "We have decided to adopt a resolution at this conference on combatting red tape It would be good to adopt also another and property worth about raids police $5000 in the June 24-2- 6 said No further details of the raids were given in the police statement The right-win- g front has been fighting since 1977 to topple the Marxist government in Maputo In the past two months at least nine Zimbabwean villagers have been killed in cross-bordattacks by rebels foraging for food and " '4J one on combatting demagogy Uzbekistan has been the subject of several major exposes in the past six months including reports of bribery and corruption that led to Yuri of late Churbanov the President Leonid I Brezhnev the current party boss was a close associate of Brezhnev Churbanov served as first deputy interior minister while Brezhnev was alive but was fired soon afterward Two Uzbekistan officials have been executed by firing squad after being convicted of corruption The newspaper Sovietskaya Rossi ya reported Thursday that the investigation against Churbanov had been completed and that he would be tried on charges of systematic bribe-takin- g along with former Uzbekistan Interior Minister K Yakhyayev two of his deputies and five regional police chiefs It also reported that two senior officials who were implicated in the case committed suicide It did not identify them son-in-la- w food Demjanjuk Appeals Death Sentence JERUSALEM (AP) — John appealed his conviction and death sentence for Nazi war crimes Thursday contending a "lynch at- g conference the first such meeting in 47 years was an indication that large-scal- e corruption still exists in the Central Asian republic Some of the delegates attacked Korotich and his magazine Korotich took the floor Thursday after a report by the conference Credentials Committee chairman candidate Politburo member Georgy "1 "Vk w Ukrainian guard called "Ivan the by inmates of the Treb-link- a concentration camp Demjanjuk who is 68 and was born in the Ukraine was sentenced April 25 a week after being found guilty of operating the gas chambers that killed 850000 Jews in 1942-4d Poland at the camp in He claims to be a victim of mistaken Terrible" 3 4 Nazi-occupie- 4 ' ff'OvtyKr identity Good News for UPI as Guild OKs Contract V VANCOUVER British Columbia ( AP) — Members of the Wire Service Guild at United Press International r convoted 95-3- 1 to ratify a tract with UPI Guild President Kei vin Keane announced Thursday UPI President Paul Steinle said the vote "signals the beginning of an era of peace between the guild and 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