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...aftermath of the whole saga, observers of Eastern European affairs remain split about the implications of Harvard's invitation to Walesa. Some argue that the gesture, though fruitless, carried symbolic significance. "I think it's a very good thing Harvard invited him," says Jeri Laber, executive director of the Helsinki Watch Committee, a prominent human rights monitoring group. "It's important that there be as much support in the West as possible for anyone who's the subject of as much harassment as he is. The more invitations like this the better...
...Helsinki accords of 1975, long sought by the USSR, raised international legal barriers to the reunification of Germany and to the restoration of the former German territories ceded to Czechoslovakia. Poland and the USSR. The Soviet search for an enduring solution to the Germany question is also evident in the Soviet proposals to the Vienna talks on the reduction of conventional forces in Central Europe Every Soviet proposal at the Vienna talks from the opening of the negotiations in 1973 to the Warsaw Pact proposal of February, 1983 has sought to establish a 1:1 ratio between Soviet and West...
...sedate hotel dining room in Helsinki, she gives a writer a big, rowdy kiss, and orders not vodka but tea and a huge chunk of chocolate cake. She talks of a happy, privileged childhood in Tomaszow Lubelski, a town of some 20,000 people about 200 miles southeast of Warsaw. Her father ran a construction business until he became ill some years ago. She was a track star as a child; at eleven she had the best time in Poland in the 80-meter sprint. She began to be interested in the stage, but theater simply did not exist...
Scholars and human rights organizations greeted the report with varying degrees of skepticism or approval. In a joint statement with Helsinki Watch and Americas Watch, two human rights groups, Michael Posner, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights, accused the Administration of "disturbing biases" toward countries in which it "has a strong political stake." Hue-Tam Tai, a Vietnamese professor of history at Harvard University, questioned the conclusion that Hanoi was last year's most egregious human rights violator. "There are other countries, including China, Iran and some U.S. allies in South America, that I would...
...directorate to control political, nationalist and religious dissent. The directorate has achieved results without great social disruption, something that Andropov's conservative comrades on the Politburo clearly value. The democratic movement within the Soviet Union that first surfaced in the 1960s and gained impetus from the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Human Rights has been all but crushed. Punishment for dissent has been selectively tailored for the dissidents: some are expelled, as outspoken Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn was in 1974; others, like Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov, are sent into internal exile; still others?like Sergei Batovrin, spokesman for an independent peace...