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Valentin Pavlov, Former Soviet Prime Minister, Dies at 66 April 2, 2003 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW, April 1 - Valentin S. Pavlov, a former Soviet prime minister who helped lead the failed hard-line coup against Mikhail S. Gorbachev in 1991, died on Sunday, Russian news reports said. He was 66. Mr. Pavlov began his career as a city financial inspector and rose slowly through the Soviet economic bureaucracy, becoming finance minister in 1989 and prime minister in January 1991. In August 1991, Mr. Pavlov and other Soviet hard-liners calling themselves the State Emergency Committee announced that President Gorbachev was ill, and they kept him isolated at a Black Sea resort where he had been on vacation. Looking glum and nervous, eight of them sat together at a news conference to tell the nation their committee was in charge. They moved armored columns into Moscow but stopped short of using them on thousands of protesters, who rallied behind Boris N. Yeltsin, then president of the Russian Republic. After just three days, the coup collapsed, Mr. Gorbachev was freed, and the plotters were arrested. Although the hard-liners said they were trying to prevent the Soviet Union from disintegrating into chaos, the coup attempt set off its collapse. Four months later, Russia, 213Ukraine and Belarus announced the Soviet Union defunct, forcing Mr. Gorbachev to resign on Dec. 25. One coup plotter committed suicide. Mr. Pavlov and the others were sentenced to prison but were released in 1993 and granted amnesty by Parliament in 1994. Mr. Pavlov went on to head a commercial bank and later turned to economic research, taking leadership posts at several academies and institutes. Mr. Pavlov remained unrepentant about his role in the coup. In 2001, he and several other surviving coup plotters, in an eerie reprise of their last joint appearance together, defended their actions and praised President Vladimir V. Putin as trying to achieve the same goals that they had. "The current leadership is making efforts to restore control over the country," Mr. Pavlov said. "Today they are trying to do what we attempted to do in the Soviet Union in 1991." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/obituaries/02PAVL.html?ex=1050296342&ei=1&en=cf7e586309186fbb HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
