Arrests Latvia

Latvia Party Chief Put His Money on Wrong Horse : Baltics: On the day of the coup, Alfreds Rubiks issued a list of pro-independence politicians he wanted arrested. Four days later, he found himself in a cell.

October 5, 1991 | MICHAEL A. HILTZIK, TIMES STAFF WRITER

For a lesson in the functioning of post-Soviet kismet, consider the case of Alfreds Rubiks, the hard-line Communist Party leader of what was until recently a Baltic republic of the Soviet Union. On Aug. 19, the day hard-liners tried to oust Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Moscow, Rubiks issued a list of pro-independence Latvian politicians he thought the junta should arrest.

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Latvia Party Chief Put His Money on Wrong Horse : Baltics: On the day of the coup, Alfreds Rubiks issued a list of pro-independence politicians he wanted arrested. Four days later, he found himself in a cell.

October 5, 1991 | MICHAEL A. HILTZIK, TIMES STAFF WRITER

For a lesson in the functioning of post-Soviet kismet, consider the case of Alfreds Rubiks, the hard-line Communist Party leader of what was until recently a Baltic republic of the Soviet Union. On Aug. 19, the day hard-liners tried to oust Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Moscow, Rubiks issued a list of pro-independence Latvian politicians he thought the junta should arrest.

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