Word: documention
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...Clearly the Senate should ask Judge Souter to address himself to this document at his confirmation hearings," said Arthur J. Kropp, president of the liberal group People for the American Way. Kropp, whose organization on Monday released copies of New Hampshire's fillings in the 1976 case, said the language in them "suggests a clear sympathy for an anti-abortion viewpoint...
Flags are one thing. But an independent Ukraine with its own soldiers? The idea may not be so farfetched: in Kiev last week the parliament overwhelmingly passed a declaration of sovereignty. Stopping short of proclaiming full independence, the document insists that the republic's laws take precedence over Moscow's rule. Furthermore, the decree envisions a neutral, nuclear-free Ukraine with its own army and currency. Even the large bloc of Communist parliamentary deputies joined nationalists in pressing for a fundamental change in relations with Moscow...
Though the declaration leaves open the possibility for the Ukraine to enter voluntarily into a new union of Soviet republics, it goes further than a similar document passed last month in neighboring Russia. Thus the U.S.S.R.'s second largest republic, with a population of 52 million and some of the most fertile farmland, richest coal fields and largest industrial centers in the Soviet Union, has joined seven of the country's 14 other republics in formally loosening ties with the central government...
...valuable component of the text. The selection of Sakharov's letters, interviews, and memoranda illustrate the nature of his campaign for human rights. The open letter from Elena Bonner, his wife, to Soviet scientists calling on them to speak out in defense of her husband is an especially moving document. She writes...
...activities then began his transition to the more fervid activism he document in the latter half of Memoirs. His tales of his evolution to widely-acclaimed human rights champion and critic of the Soviet regime are fascinating--never does Sakharov consciously break ties with the past. Sakharov humbly relates the succession of events where he faithfully follows his conscience, and his eventual publication of the essay, "Reflections of Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom" in the New York Times in 1968 which overnight garnered the scientist international fame...