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Supreme Soviet ceases Communist Party
MOSCOW - Soviet, lawmakers
voted Thursday to suspend all activi
ties of the Communist Party in what
appeared to be a fatal blow to the
once-powerful institution that virtu
ally collapsed after last week’s failed
coup.
The Supreme Soviet’s vote could
be a lethal blow to the party, which
had 15 million members and made its
presence felt in every factory, school
and city hall in the nation.
The Supreme Soviet’s decision
culminated a week of post-coup at
tacks on the Communist Party for its
key role in the takeover.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev,
struggling to revive his central gov
ernment, resigned as the Communist
Party chief last week.
Russian Federation President Boris
N. Yeltsin, who has taken the initia
tive in reshaping the political slruc
ture of the nation, has barred the party
from his vast republic and scaled party
and KGB archives. The republic’s
first secretaries have each quit the
Politburo or resigned from the party.
Legislators voted 283-29, with 52
abstentions, to suspend the party, which
had ruled the nation through fear and
intimidation for more than seven
decades.
The resolution urged that all evi
dence from the Soviet prosecutor’s
probe of official involvement in the
coup be turned over to the national
Supreme Court, which would then
determine whether the party can still
operate.
The vote also froze the Commu
nist Party’s bank accounts and halts
all financial operations by the party.
“I frankly rejoice in that... the
demise, the fall of the totalitarian
non-democratic party,” said President
Bush in Kcnnebunkport, Maine, where
he was holding a news conference
with visiting British Prime Minister
John Major.
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union
moved closer to splintering apart.
The two richest and most popu
lous Soviet republics, Russia and the
Ukraine, Thursday announced forma
tion of a temporary military and eco
nomic alliance that appears to leave
the Kremlin out in the cold.
The two republics invited other
states “of the former U.S.S.R” to join
their alliance, striking a serious blow
to Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s efforts to
regain some semblance of the power
he wielded before last week’s coup.
Thursday’s agreement was a vic
tory for Russian President Boris N.
Yeltsin, who led the opposition to the
Communist-led coup and has since
forced Gorbachev into a weaker,
power-sharing role.
It also underscored the diminished
stature of such institutions as the na
tional Supreme Soviet legislature,
which began Thursday’s session by
hearing reports on the Russian-Ukrain
ian accord.
“The results of these negotiations
are that... the old union does not
exist and there can be no return to it,”
said Leningrad Mayor Anatoly
Sobchak, who was sent to Kiev by
Gorbachev and the Supreme Soviet
to observe the talks.
But the reformist mayor also told
lawmakers that he still sees a future
role for Soviet institutions such as the
national parliament.
“Itought to play a coordinating, an
arbitrating role to prevent a misun
derstanding from growing into a
conflict,” he said.
The Supreme Soviet also pressed
on with Gorbachev ’$ post-coup purge
on Thursday, voting nearly unani
mously to strip ousted speaker Ana
toly Lukyanov of his parliamentary
immunity so he can be charged in
connection with the failed coup.
The chief Soviet prosecutor, Nikolai
Trubin, told lawmakers he had evi
dence Lukyanov was involved in the
coup and should be charged with trea
son.
Trubin then announced his own
resignation, accepting responsibility
for some of his office’s employees
who failed to oppose the coup.
Thirteen coup ringleaders, includ
ing the seven remaining members of
the emergency committee that tried
to seize power after interning Gor
bachev, were charged Thursday with
treason, which ispunishablc by death.
U.S., Britain to donate food
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine ■
The United States and Great Brit
ain announced plans Thursday tc
extend additional food credits tc
the disintegrating Soviet Union and
to make a hurry-up “lifeline” stud)
of possible Soviet needs for food
and medical aid this winter.
For his part, Bush called again
on the Soviet leadership to recog
nize the independence of the Baltic
slates and not to “stand against the
winds of the inevitable.” He said
he did not anticipate action on the
Baltics by the Supreme Soviet before
Monday.
Both Bush and British Prime
Minister John Major urged the Soviet
Union to press ahead with eco
nomic reform, and Major added
that the Soviets should “further
reduce” their defense spending.
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Larger cell cluster discovered in heterosexual males
Brain variation found in homosexuals
WASHINGTON - A cluster of brain
cells that may guide the sex drive of
men is twice as large in heterosexual
males than it is in homosexual males,
suggesting that homosexuality could
be a matter of biological destiny, a
researcher reports.
In microscopic examinations of
the brains of 41 men and women,
including 19 homosexual men, Si
mon LeVay of the Salk Institute for
Biological Studies, San Diego,Calif.,
found that a specific cluster of cells
was always larger for heterosexual
males than the other specimens.
LeVay cautioned that while the
evidence demonstrates a strong link
between the size of that group of cel Is
and the sexual preference of males,
researchers still aren’t sure which is
cause, which is effect.
But he made clear that, based on
his own findings and earlier animal
studies, he believes the odds are that
there is a strong biological determi
nant of homosexuality — something
long argued by many within the gay
community.
His research focused on a cluster
in thelnterstitial nuclei of the anterior
hypothalamus, or INAH, which has
been identified in animal studies as a
principal root of male sexual behav
ior.
LeVay said he found a difference
in a cluster called INAH 3, which is
one of four INAH groups of cells.
In the brains of heterosexual men,
he said, the INAH 3 is “about the size
of a grain of sand.” In homosexual
men and in women, the structure is
“small to vanishing.”
The study, to be published Friday
in the journal Science, did not include
specimens from known homosexual
women.
LeVay said the INAH possibly
could form normally in homosexual
men and then, for some reason, shrink
or die in adult life.
But he said that, based on animal
studies, “I would put my money on
the idea that this is causative and
influences behavior.”
Dr. Roger Gorski, a UCLA re
searcher who has specialized in stud
ies on the influence of the brain on
sexual behavior, said LeVay’s find
ings are generally consistent with whal
he has found in research using labora
tory rats.
Gorski said that his research has
shown that sexual behavior of rats
can be manipulated by the influence
of hormones before birth.
LeVay and Gorski both said that
science docs not yet know precisely
the function of the INAH that LeVay
studied. Studies in monkeys, how
ever, have shown that when the por
tion of the brain that includes the
INAH is destroyed, male monkeys
lose sexual interest in females.
Subway operator
charged for deaths
NEW YORK - A subway operator
was charged with manslaughter after
his train derailed and crashed into a
pillar early Wednesday, killing five
passengers and injuring 133, authori
ties said. Forty-four rescue workers
also were injured.
Motorman Robert Ray, 38, was
charged with five counts of manslaugh
ter, Police Commissioner Lee Brown
said.
Tests showed Ray’s blood-alcohol
level was 0.21 percent. Brown said at
a news conference. The New York
state standard for vehicular drunken
driving is 0.10 percent
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Vukovar fighting continues,
cease-fire called elsewhere
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - The
besieged Croatian town of Vukovar
was without water and power
Thursday after fierce fighting, but
the breakaway republic and the
federal army agreed to a cease-fire
in another strife-tom region.
The republic's television sys
tem dropped all regular program
ming Thursday and began 24-hour
coverage of the fighting.
Minor skirmishes between re
publican forces and Serbian guer
rillas were reported overnight in
several areas of Croatia.
Radio Zagreb said two Croatian
national guardsmen were killed and
three injured in fighting around the
Serbian-held village of Sunja 40
miles southeast of Zagreb, the
republic’s capital.
There were conflicting reports
from Vukovar, a town on the Da
nube River border with Serbia where
Croatian forces have been able to
repel the Serbs and the Yugoslav
army, which has bombarded the
city with tanks and warplanes.
The Croatian news agency Hina
said battles continued for a fifth
day, but Radio Belgrade and the
national Tanjug news agency said
a tense calm prevailed.
Local mayors from several
central and northern towns in
Croatia’s Dalmatian region on the
Adriatic coast signed a cease-fire
agreement with local military
commanders, Hina reported.
But representatives of the Ser
bian stronghold of Knin, whose
militia controls much of the re
gion, did not sign the agreement,
Hina said.
Leaders of Croatia’s Serbian
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