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...sufficiently frightened by the example of Afghanistan, and impressed by the new look of the Carter Administration, to become more amenable to U.S. efforts to protect them and help them put their houses in order. Perhaps the Saudis will be more receptive to American pressure for a crackdown on corruption, one of several slow-burning fuses in Riyadh. Perhaps Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq will allow the U.S. to push him more quickly toward restoring a broad-based democratic government...
Sakharov's banishment may be the signal for an intensification of a domestic crackdown that has paralleled the hardening of Soviet foreign policy. According to a report by Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, more than 40 Soviet dissidents have been arrested or tried in the past three months. These have included religious leaders, Jewish "refuseniks" and activists for the rights of such national groups as the Ukrainians and the Lithuanians. Two weeks ago, Father Dmitri Dudko, 57, was arrested and imprisoned in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison. As revered a figure among Russian Orthodox Christians...
...call your attention to the wave of mass arrest of democratic movement leaders in Taiwan. The crackdown followed a rally commemorating Human Rights Day on Dec. 10, sponsored by members of the democratic movement. More than 65 prominent leaders have been arrested. They are publishers, novelists, ministers, candidates for election to the Central Government, and including Ms. Lu Hsiu-lien, a Harvard Law School alumni. Most are charged with sedition-punishable by from 15 years imprisonment up to death. The scope of arrest and the severity of the charges indicate the intention of the Taiwan government to use this opportunity...
While Vance was collecting promises of support in Europe, the Administration suffered a minor setback at home. In Washington, U.S. District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green directed the Administration to stop its crackdown on Iranians with student visas who are illegally in the U.S. She ruled that the Government had subjected the Iranians to a "discriminatory, 30-day roundup that violates the fundamental principles of American fairness." Since Nov. 13, immigration officials had interviewed 50,437 Iranians, found that 6,042 were in the U.S. illegally and expelled 56 of them. Government lawyers won a temporary stay of the ruling...
Despite all the lurid stories, China's crime rate is probably lower than that in most Western nations. Some observers suspect that the new campaign against crime is part of a broader movement to restore law-and-order that also includes the recent crackdown on China's tiny dissident movement. Last week Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, talking to a delegation from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, defended the stiff 15-year sentence meted out six weeks ago to Human Rights Activist Wei Jingsheng on the ground that "we needed to make an example of him." At the same time...