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...could be executed. On the same day that Shcharansky's trial starts, court proceedings also begin against another Jewish dissident, Alexander Ginzburg, 41, a leading member of a Russian group founded to monitor the U.S.S.R.'s compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord...
...number of small moves in the past few months, however, have indicated that a SALT II accord may finally be in sight. As Carter said at his last press conference, "Negotiations are going along very well," and "we are making progress." Yet even before Moscow's unexpected scheduling of the trials, U.S. officials had carefully muted their optimism about SALT. Noted one Administration aide before he left for the talks: "We don't see Geneva as make or break. We're not talking about breakthroughs. It's part of a process...
Vance will also try to resolve problems with the timing of the accord. While both sides agree that the Soviets will have to reduce their strategic arsenal somewhat, it has not been decided how long Moscow can take to do so. The U.S. wants the Soviets to pare down to 2,250 strategic systems within six months after the SALT II pact is signed; Moscow would like three years to reach that number...
Carter believes the days of springing decisions on the public without prior warning are over. "I think it's accurate to say," he noted of an accord Gerald Ford had made with the Soviets in 1974, "that when the Vladivostok agreement was reached there was almost a dearth of news about the negotiations. Only when the final agreement was signed was it revealed. All of a sudden you had an accomplished fact. Negotiating points were never understood by the American public or the Congress...
Gamsakhurdia, who was a member of a group monitoring Soviet response to the 1975 Helsinki accord that is supposed to guarantee human rights, had advocated secession of his native Republic of Georgia from the Soviet Union. Tried and convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, he was sentenced to three years in prison. As part of its coverage of the trial, Vremya broadcast a taped confession by Gamsakhurdia. Whitney and Piper both wrote stories quoting Gamsakhurdia's friends as contending that the broadcast confession did not reflect his real views and seemed to have been fabricated...