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...month North had planes, missiles and money hopscotching all over the globe to deliver weapons to supposedly moderate elements in Iran in order to bring about the release of the American hostages. Although Iran received 1,000 TOW antitank missiles as a result of his efforts, no Americans were freed...
...imposed five years ago against the Warsaw regime. The measures and Poland's own economic mismanagement had nearly halved U.S. imports of Polish goods, such as vodka and canned ham. Reagan praised Warsaw's more tolerant attitude toward the Catholic Church and political prisoners, hundreds of whom have been freed since martial law was ended in 1983. Both the church and the banned Solidarity trade-union movement pressed for the U.S. action as an important symbolic gesture. Warsaw, said a spokesman, was pleased "that the unlawful restrictions are being lifted...
There were signs that the U.S.S.R. was reacting uneasily to the latest evidence of Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness. In announcing the prisoner release, Gennadi Gerasimov, spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, said he doubted that the number to be freed at the present time would exceed 280. He acknowledged that the Kremlin's action did not enjoy universal support within the party. "I can say to you that there are comrades who think the harsher the better," he declared. "But at the moment, we are heading into a softening, so that we may have fewer people behind...
Soviet dissidents disagreed on the significance of the mass release. Sergei Grigoryants, a literary critic who was sent to prison for 13 years for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda but was freed last week, was somewhat optimistic. "Gorbachev is doing everything he can to activate people," he said, "but he has lots of opposition, both open and secret. His opposition is our problem." Naum Meiman, an activist whose cancer-stricken wife died in Washington last week, just three weeks after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union for treatment in the U.S., described the recent changes as a "more sophisticated...
...prisoner release was on the way came from Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner, whose tiny apartment on Chkalova Street has once again become the nerve center of the human-rights movement. The Sakharovs advised Western reporters that they knew of 43 political prisoners who had suddenly been freed, in what Bonner called a "wonderful turnaround" in Kremlin policy. Soon old friends and even distant acquaintances, some newly arrived at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station in camp clothes and close-cropped prison haircuts, came to call. When Yuri Shikhanovich arrived, Bonner sent him off with money to buy wine and vodka...