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...allies were not responsive to the latest Soviet overture. British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym pointed out that the United Nations Charter and the 1975 Helsinki Final Act contained "perfectly satisfactory" nonaggression clauses. In West Germany, where the NATO missile plan has become a major issue in the campaign leading up to national elections on March 6, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher urged Moscow "to follow its words with deeds." Responding to the Andropov proposal to reduce the number of Soviet missiles to fewer than 162 if France and Britain trimmed their nuclear arsenals, French President Franç Mitterrand warned that...
...aggressive. On top of that it has been linked to the old Russian claim to being a world power. There are the immense armaments that have been built up in the East. Next, take the fact that treaties have not been honored. There is the Final Act [1975] of Helsinki [which enshrined detente], and contrary to that there is the invasion of Afghanistan and martial law in Poland. All of these facts arouse the fears and the worries of people living here. However, it is necessary to meet this challenge. And we have met it by adopting the double-track...
Shcharansky, a computer scientist, was arrested in 1977 for treason, espionage, and anti-Soviet agitation while a member of a group monitoring Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act an agreement giving citizens the right to emigrate and join their lamellas abroad...
...Shcharansky saga began in 1974 when--a day after his wedding--his wife Avital was expelled from the country, while his application to emigrate was denied. Two years later, Shcharansky joined the underground Helsinki Watchdog Committee, which attempted to monitor Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act, a human rights charter signed a year earlier by 35 countries, including the U.S.S.R. If honored, that country would have permitted Shcharansky, along with other citizens with family in other countries to emigrate...
Knowlton is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a former president of Helsinki Watch, an international human-rights monitoring group. He is also the author of three books on finance and his first novel will be published next year...