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Moroz, who yesterday attributed his release to a Soviet desire for a SALT II agreement and to Harvard's offer, met with former Soviet Gen. Peter Grigorenko last night and will meet with President Carter within a few weeks, Snylyk added. In addition to Grigorenko, "a major dissident figure" who has been in the United States since 1977. Moroz met with a figure whose name could not be released, Snylyk said...
Alexander Zinoviev, a satirist of Soviet life, emigrated to Munich last month. The Supreme Soviet's action against him was the same as that taken this year against emigrees Maj. Gen. Pyotr Grigorenko and Mstislav Rostropovitch...
...Gestures. The Soviet leaders are nevertheless sensitive to the fact that American criticism of Russian repression, led by Senator Henry Jackson (see box), is a threat to détente. In what can only be construed as a symbolic gesture to mollify U.S. opinion, they released Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, 67, who had been placed in a psychiatric clinic for political crimes five years ago. At the same time, Benjamin Levich, a Jew and a leading Soviet chemist, was told that next year he would receive his long-sought permission to emigrate to Israel. His two sons, both of whom...
...army doctor who was not a qualified surgeon. Just before his operation, Galanskov managed to sneak a letter home saying: "They are doing everything to hasten my death." The treatment of Galanskov has aroused anxiety over the condition of other sick political prisoners, such as former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, 66, a war invalid, and Writer Vladimir Bukovsky, 30, who suffers from a lung disease...
...similar appeals. Determined to return to Russia, where he is regarded by the KGB as a dangerous troublemaker, Chalidze told TIME: "Even if the Soviet authorities will only let people out for purposes of propaganda, it is still a victory in the struggle for human rights. Let them send Grigorenko and Bukovsky out for propaganda too." Chalidze's friends in Moscow worry that the Soviets will not let him re-enter the country, or will arrest him if they do. Under the present grim conditions, there is a diminishing chance that the Chronicle will survive to report Chalidze...