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...justify." Advisers indicate that "major" might have been an overstatement; the proposals are likely to involve more open communications and greater movement across East-West borders. Then there will be human rights, always a touchy topic for any Soviet leader and one on which Gorbachev is preparing a vigorous counter-campaign. In his U.N. speech, the President asserted that "we Americans do not accept that any government has the right to command and order the lives of its people" and placed this philosophical belief "at the core of our deep and abiding differences with the Soviet Union." Aides affirmed that...
...Soviet press has lately been playing up such alleged U.S. violations of human rights as the Move bombing in Philadelphia. Sample fulmination: according to Pravda, "the United States is going through a 'prison boom.' Camps for dissidents are hastily being built there." The Soviets may even try to counter American allegations of human rights abuse with propagandistic bombast about the purported torture of fickle Soviet Defector Vitaly Yurchenko...
Those who believe his defection was real counter by saying that Yurchenko may have been holding back information for his own reasons, parceling it out carefully as he watched how the CIA treated him. The official CIA line is that Yurchenko was in fact quite forthcoming and supplied details about the KGB network in the U.S. and abroad. As for Reagan's downplaying of Yurchenko's revelations, some espionage experts contend that it is the only sensible response for a President who wants to keep Moscow guessing how much the U.S. now knows about Soviet operations...
...government of President Belisario Betancur Cuartas refused to negotiate. Within minutes of the takeover, Bolívar Plaza was teeming with soldiers and police. Armored cars arrived with sirens blaring. The Colombian army and paramilitary police units responded with a fury that the newspaper El Tiempo called "the most spectacular counter-guerrilla operation in contemporary times." Said one journalist who was at the scene: "It was total...
...Lake, "The Devil in Red Lake." The ultimate responsibility obviously lies with the young man who fired the guns, Jeff Weise. But because he was a boy growing up poor and from a shattered family, with a confused and bitter outlook on his racial heritage and no one to counter the myths of Nazism and racial hate groups, we have to admit that in some way society failed him, and nine other people paid the price. Because TIME brought up the devil, as if a supernatural being were to blame, the reader is tempted to discount all the social problems...