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...Lider, and who spent a considerable period of time in solitary confinement for refusing to wear the obnoxious yellow jackets that Castro has decreed such prisoners should wear--a story which was documented last year by "Worldview," a liberal Christian magazine. And one could express solidarity, too, with Alexander Ginzburg, the young Russian dissident, who faces trial for the sole crime of distributing monies to other dissidents who have lost their livelihoods because they expressed a desire to emigrate--a right stipulated in the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights which says that a man has a right to leave...
...activists in the U.S.S.R. The KGB's main target: small groups of dissidents who monitor Soviet compliance with the Helsinki agreements on human rights. In the past 14 months 22 members of these groups have been arrested. Among the most notable are Physicist Yuri Orlov and Writer Alexander Ginzburg. who are charged with "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Computer Specialist Anatoli Shcharansky is accused of treason...
...struggled with the Soviet secret police when they broke into her Moscow apartment to arrest her husband, Alexander, and now, at a distance, Natalya Solzhenitsyn is struggling with them again. This time she is speaking out for the Solzhenitsyns' longtime friend Alexander Ginzburg, 41. Ginzburg, until his arrest 14 months ago, was the administrator in the U.S.S.R. of the $1.7 million Russian Social Fund, established and financed by Solzhenitsyn. Before he was sent to Kaluga prison for alleged anti-Soviet activities, Ginzburg managed to distribute $360,000 to the "wives, children and parents of political prisoners of conscience...
Orlov was imprisoned a few days later, following the arrests of other Soviet dissidents including Vladimir Bukovski, Sergei Kovalev and Alexander Ginzburg...
...letter, written Feb. 5, inexplicably was delivered twelve days later. Thus it predated the President's public critique of the Soviets for having jailed Dissident Alexander Ginzburg, which triggered the Kremlin's fury. Once again, the Russian response came swiftly. Hours after Sakharov's announcement, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin called on Acting U.S. Secretary of State Arthur Hartman in Washington and declared that the Kremlin "resolutely" rejected "attempts to interfere in its internal affairs." The Soviet leaders were furious that a U.S. President had made direct contact with their most eloquent critic; Sakharov himself further provoked their...