Word: anatoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take steps to improve relations with the U.S. As Kennedy understood it, the Soviet boss agreed to review the cases of 18 families who have been refused permission to emigrate. Later, the Senator met with a group of dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and the mother and brother of Anatoli Shcharansky, who has been sentenced to prison for his protests...
...heart ached when I read of the fate of Anatoli Shcharansky and other Soviet dissidents [July 24]. Their only crime is the love of freedom...
Undaunted by the world outcry against the trials and convictions of Anatoli Shcharansky and two other Soviet dissidents, Moscow last week moved to silence another human rights activist. Attorney Lev Lukyanenko, 50, went on trial in the small Ukrainian town of Gorodnya near Kiev on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation." The pattern of the proceedings was much the same as in the previous trials. Like Shcharansky, Alexander Ginzburg and Viktoras Petkus, Lukyanenko refused to make a public confession, despite seven months of pretrial interrogation. Instead, he went on a hunger strike when the summary four-day trial began, refused...
...wheels of Soviet justice ground on grimly last week. Three just-convicted dissidents, Anatoli Shcharansky, Vik-toras Petkus and Alexander Ginzburg, began prison terms of 13, ten and eight years. At the same time, in a clumsy effort at press intimidation, a Moscow court ordered two American newsmen and their papers to pay fines and print retractions for having libeled state television employees. Meanwhile, other trials were in prospect, as Moscow continued its crackdown on domestic opposition...
...veiled threat, the State Department summoned a Soviet diplomat to "discuss" the status of the San Francisco bureau of the Soviet press agency, Tass. But the Administration had not decided whether to make any retaliatory gestures beyond the moves that President Carter had made after Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky's conviction: he canceled the sale of a Sperry Univac computer to Tass and placed all American exports of oil technology to the Soviet Union under his personal control...