Word: beloved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merry swain, who laugh'd among the vales, And with your gay pipe made the mountains ring, Why leave your cot, your woods and thymy gales, And friends belov'd, for aught that wealth can bring...
...group of British students who toured Moscow in 1964 remember their interpreter, Zhenya Belov, as a dedicated Communist who lambasted them for "political ignorance." Last summer Belov showed his own political ignorance by writing Comrades Brezhnev and Kosygin, suggesting they democratize their regime. He was adjudged insane, put in an asylum and-the Soviet bosses hoped-forgotten forever...
...from forgotten, Belov has since become one of 1,200 priority cases in the files of Amnesty International, a London-based organization, founded in 1961, that aims to set free "prisoners of conscience," no matter how obscure, if they have been locked up for "expressing any honestly held opinion which does not advocate violence." It is dedicated to the proposition that governments that operate outside the law must somehow be brought to account...
Most Sensitive Point. Amnesty's weapons are moral suasion strengthened with a potent brew of publicity. This is the kind of pressure, says President Peter Benenson, 45, that hits totalitarian regimes at their "most sensitive point, their public image, their trade image, their tourist image." By publicizing Belov in the British press, Amnesty forced the Russians to acknowledge his fate. Izvestia accused Amnesty of "presumption and arrogance in suggesting that a Western psychiatrist" be allowed to examine the prisoner...