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The World : Yeltsin Backers Hold Rally

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Thousands of Muscovites, some urging the removal of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, protested in the Soviet capital over the exclusion of anti-Establishment hero Boris N. Yeltsin and other reformers from the new standing Parliament, the Supreme Soviet. About 8,000 people at a rally shouted and cheered as human rights campaigner Andrei D. Sakharov condemned what he called the authorities’ manipulation of the new Congress of People’s Deputies. The congress elected a predominantly conservative 542-member Supreme Soviet, which will meet for eight months a year to ratify or reject all acts of the government.

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