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- <text id=91TT2682>
- <title>
- Dec. 02, 1991: Dead Communists Tell No Tales
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 02, 1991 Pearl Harbor:Day of Infamy
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- Dead Communists Tell No Tales
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- <p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> What's the hardest way to kill yourself? Three bullets to
- the head certainly ranks. According to Moscow police sources,
- that was the actual cause of death for coup conspirator BORIS
- PUGO, the Soviet Interior Minister who was officially described
- as having "committed suicide" when the August putsch fizzled.
- As for two other top Communist officials reported to have
- killed themselves by leaping from windows, sources say they
- probably were pushed in order to silence them. They apparently
- knew too much about the smuggling of Communist wealth out of the
- country as the party collapsed.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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