Word: anatoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside a Moscow courthouse last week, Anatoli Shcharansky stood trial with his life at stake. Outside, along with a group of dissidents, a small corps of foreign journalists waited grimly for the verdict, nodding at the familiar KGB agents who were photographing them in open surveillance. Among the correspondents was TIME's Marsh Clark, who filed extensively for this week's cover story, written by Staff Writer Patricia Blake...
Early in his Moscow stay, Clark came to know the Soviet dissidents whose names would gain world attention: Yuri Orlov, Alexander Ginzburg, Anatoli Shcharansky. It was Shcharansky who acted as Clark's interlocutor and interpreter in several talks with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov. Recalls Clark: "Shcharansky seemed merely to be busying himself while awaiting emigration to Israel, for which he had repeatedly applied, perhaps believing that by making himself obnoxious to the authorities they would kick him out. How wrong...
There was never much doubt about the verdict, only about the severity of the punishment. The Soviets resolved that question late last week by imposing on Dissident Leader Anatoli Shcharansky a term of 13 years in prison and hard labor camp for treason (see WORLD). President Carter, who had called the trials of Shcharansky and Fellow Dissident Alexander Ginzburg "an attack on every human being who lives in the world who believes in basic human freedom," said the verdict produced a "sadness the whole world feels." In Germany for a summit conference of major industrial democracies, Carter responded to criticism...
...days of bargaining with Gromyko in Geneva would be sensitive. He had brought with him a message from President Carter to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev expressing concern about the dissidents' trials. He also had a symbolic appointment to meet Avital Shcharansky, to emphasize American sympathy for her husband, Anatoli Shcharansky. But Vance vowed as before not to link the new Soviet-American controversy with the arms negotiations. When several Senators publicly urged him to postpone his trip, an unusually tense Vance replied: "The imperatives to go to Geneva now are that we are dealing with negotiations that affect...
...almost the eve of what had been regarded as a promising arms-control conference between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Moscow last week suddenly issued a chilling announcement. It said that Anatoli Shcharansky, 30, a computer expert and Jewish human rights activist who has been accused of spying for the CIA, would stand trial in Moscow early this week on a charge of high treason. If found guilty, he could be executed. On the same day that Shcharansky's trial starts, court proceedings also begin against another Jewish dissident, Alexander Ginzburg...