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Yureii and Olga Medvedkov, Dina Zisserman, and many other members of the group are also refuseniks. To Yureii Medvedkov, the right to emigrate is one of a broad slate of human rights that are indivisible from peace activism. "To be a peace activist is a right," he insists. Refuseniks, by applying to leave have already crossed into a realm of dissent which sets them apart from ordinary Soviet citizens. While simply wanting to leave is not usually considered dissent in Western countries, a desire to leave is considered tantamount to treason in the Soviet Union. As a result refuseniks...
...Jaroff has returned as a writer to a subject he has followed closely as an editor. In 1971 and again in 1977, TIME cover stories that he edited examined the phenomenon of genetic engineering, or gene splicing, with its broad promise for medicine and other branches of science, and its inherent perils. In this week's issue Jaroff updates the techniques and applications of genetic engineering and chronicles the latest efforts to bring its new products to the marketplace, especially in the field of agriculture, where their use has been hindered by a host of legal maneuvers and regulatory roadblocks...
...used it ruthlessly to stifle dissent abroad as well as at home. Since the late 1970s, a succession of Libyan exiles were gunned down in Europe by Gaddafi henchmen. "My people have the right to liquidate opponents inside and outside the country," he said, "even under broad daylight...
Unlike a purely political epic, The Saga of Israel and Zionism has a broad spiritual dimension. For nearly 2,000 years a dispersed people kept telling one another, "Next year in Jerusalem." That turned out to be 1948, the year Israel actually became the autonomous homeland of the Jews. It is an oft-told story and one that is usually orchestrated for axes and grindstones. O'Brien is diplomatic but not impartial; he accepts the rationale of Israel and its right to defend itself against surrounding enemies. He sympathizes with Palestinians who feel they have...
...SURPRISINGLY, Meese's attack on the courts represents one punch in the administration's two fisted attack on civil liberties and broad guarantees of rights. In an article in The New York Times, Justice Department public relations man Terry Eastland unintentionally elucidated the real intentions of Meese and the Reagan Administration...