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...protests is Author Vladimir Bukovsky, who has spent seven of his 29 years in various prisons and asylums; in January he was sentenced again, to seven years in a labor camp, plus five years in exile from Moscow. Last week 52 leading Soviet intellectuals, headed by Physicist Andrei Sakharov, asked the United Nations to seek amnesty for Bukovsky. That is unlikely, since his "crime" was passing to the West documentation of how psychiatry is used to suppress dissent-specifically, the case histories of six political protesters held in Soviet mental wards...
...also protested the Soviet misuse of psychiatric treatment, as have the Canadian and American Psychiatric Associations, and French intellectuals and psychiatrists. One notable exception was the conference of the World Psychiatric Association in Mexico City last autumn. There, the Soviet Ministry of Health's chief psychiatrist Dr. Andrei Snezhnevsky argued that an appeal from Soviet dissidents was merely "a cold war maneuver," and managed to keep the item off the agenda...
...Soviet Union." As a sign of concern about their image at home and abroad, Soviet authorities released Zhores Medvedev, at least partly in response to a flurry of protesting telegrams from foreign scientists. Thus the questions raised by Western psychiatrists may yet have some effect on what Dissident Author Andrei Amalrik, last reported in ill health in a Siberian prison camp, calls "the most disgusting thing that this regime does...
...past five years, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had simply been "too busy" to keep his end of a 1965 agreement calling for annual talks with the Japanese. All of a sudden, Gromyko is not too busy at all. From the moment he arrived at Tokyo's International Airport last week for a six-day stay, the normally dour Russian was the epitome of diplomatic affability...
...Died. Andrei Andreyev, 76, former deputy of Joseph Stalin and one of the Soviet Union's most durable Old Bolsheviks; in Moscow. Virtually unknown outside the U.S.S.R., Andreyev was a ruthless administrator who, as head of the nation's outmoded railway system during the early 1930s, ordered malingering workers shot. Later entrusted with responsibility for postwar farm collectivization, he was blamed by Stalin for agricultural failures and purged from the Politburo. However, he re-emerged shortly after the dictator's death as a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a post he held...