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...fact. Carter's proposals were far less casual than they appeared to be. Before going public with them, he had outlined them in greater detail to Soviet -Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. An unusually nervous and perspiring Dobrynin had discussed a wide range of Soviet-American issues with Carter in the Oval Office for nearly an hour...
...Soviets tolerate the dissidents to the extent that they do? "What alternative do the authorities have?" says one prominent critic, Anatoli Shchransky. "To take more direct measures against us would be to return to the days of Stalin and that they don't want. They are interested in Western opinion and in detente and in good economic relations, and most of the present leaders are the very men who survived Stalin. World opinion is what keeps us going, what keeps us alive." Mass terror was ended after Stalin's death, but no one doubts that if the dissident...
...statements was tempered by Ginzburg's arrest. Still, the activists were grateful for the U.S. support of Sakharov, whom most dissidents regard as "the captain of our ship." Upon hearing of the State Department admonitions on foreign short-wave radio, "we nearly cried with relief," Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky told TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark last week. "It was what we were waiting for. We think it has saved Sakharov; we're convinced they won't touch...
...State Department broadsides broke a longstanding taboo against strong comment on the internal policies of other countries. They also marked the first effort by Washington to take the Eastern regimes to task for not living up to the Helsinki provisions. When he learned of the statement about Sakharov, Anatoli Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., telephoned Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to protest. That prompted a curious diplomatic minuet that left an impression of some disarray in the State Department...
...chess tournament in Amsterdam was over, and Russian Grandmaster Victor Korchnoi, 45, ranked second only to World Champion Anatoli Karpov, had finished in a tie for first place. But Korchnoi had a private end game to complete: he defected and sought asylum. Tass, the Soviet news agency, quickly counterattacked, accusing Korchnoi of being "obsessed with vanity." In fact, Korchnoi has been in dutch with Soviet chess officials more or less constantly since 1974, when he lost in a semifinal world championship match to Karpov and then complained publicly that his fellow grandmaster had a "poor chess arsenal." But Korchnoi...