Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commitment to "a democratic way," the godfathers of Euro-Communism disagreed sharply on just how deeply they should cut the Kremlin's apron strings. They reached no agreement at all on the sensitive issue of dissidence in the Soviet bloc, other than a mild approval of the Helsinki accord...
...Rumania, Party Chief Nicolae Ceausescu publicly threatened eight writers and intellectuals who had issued an appeal for greater respect for the human rights guaranteed by the Rumanian constitution and Helsinki accord. In a nationwide broadcast, the Rumanian dictator denounced dissidents as "traitors"-a warning that human rights activists were risking long jail sentences or possibly even death...
...Middle East. We who believe that ending one injustice should not be done by committing another should try to find a just and human way out of this complicated dilemma. To this aim, we trust that the United States will pursue with resolution and determination the effort to accord the Palestinian people their legitimate right to self-determination and help us build a new Middle East that respects national rights and that is free from discrimination, domination and racialism. This is the challenge that faces America in the Middle East as you begin your third century, and we dedicate...
Embarrassingly for Moscow, under the terms of the Helsinki agreement, the Soviets must submit next summer to a review in Belgrade of their observance of its provisions. Sitting in judgment will be not a little group of Russian dissidents but representatives of the 34 other nations who signed the accord. Moscow and the other East European capitals are apparently trying to put down the current wave of dissent before the meeting...
...Czechoslovakia. After a brief lull the official Czechoslovak press resumed its ferocious attacks on the nearly 500 signers of Charter 77, a manifesto calling for compliance with the Helsinki human rights accord. The charter had provoked the alarm and fury of the regime because its adherents include the country's foremost writers and intellectuals, plus ousted leaders of the liberal regime of Alexander Dubcek. Last week the charter was endorsed by Dubcek himself, who has been working for the forestry office in Bratislava since he was deposed by the Russian invaders...