FORMER LATVIAN KGB BOSS DENIES USING VIOLENCE.

At his Rigatrial for genocide, the former head of the Soviet secret policein Latvia, Alfons Noviks, said he had never used force againstthe population or against prisoners, BNS reported August 2. "Ihave not touched anybody," Noviks told the country. Meanwhile,Latvian authorities refused to register the candidacy of recentlyconvicted Soviet-era leader Alfreds Rubiks for the September parliamentaryelections.

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