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...persistence of traditional antiSemitism. Together, though, the three trials revealed the Kremlin's increasing alarm over the growth of libertarian movements among the Soviet Union's other ethnic minorities and religious groups. It was hardly a coincidence that all three men tried last week were members of unofficial Helsinki Watch Committees that had been formed to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreements. Such groups, which have sprung up in the Baltic states, the Ukraine and Georgia, as well as in Moscow, have served as umbrella organizations, sheltering disparate dissident groups under the aegis...
...sent by the U.S. embassy as an observer but was refused admission. Also gathered outside were about 50 activists and other supporters of Shcharansky. One was an old friend, Irina Orlov, wife of Physicist Yuri Orlov, who was sentenced to twelve years last May for having founded the first Helsinki Watch Committee. Two of the Soviet Union's best-known "refuseniks," who have been denied visas to Israel, came to show their sympathy for Shcharansky. They were Alexander Lerner, the former head of a cybernetics institute, and Veniamin Levich, one of the world's leading physical chemists. Both men were...
...Russian is limited, had several times used Shcharansky to contact Jewish refuseniks?many of whom have been barred from emigration because they are scientists. Shcharansky, whose English is excellent, acted as an unofficial public relations man for his fellow Jewish activists, as well as for members of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee, which he had helped found...
...guilty, he could be executed. On the same day that Shcharansky's trial starts, court proceedings also begin against another Jewish dissident, Alexander Ginzburg, 41, a leading member of a Russian group founded to monitor the U.S.S.R.'s compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord...
...tried to insulate the SALT process from other controversies. Thus there is a chance that Vance and Gromyko will still be able to devote most of their time in Geneva to arms limitation, which Vance insisted last week was "in our national interest." Since SALT first convened in Helsinki nine years ago, progress toward curbing atomic arsenals has been frustratingly slow, and there has been no ban at all on offensive weapons since the SALT I ceilings expired last October...