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Gamsakhurdia, who was a member of a group monitoring Soviet response to the 1975 Helsinki accord that is supposed to guarantee human rights, had advocated secession of his native Republic of Georgia from the Soviet Union. Tried and convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, he was sentenced to three years in prison. As part of its coverage of the trial, Vremya broadcast a taped confession by Gamsakhurdia. Whitney and Piper both wrote stories quoting Gamsakhurdia's friends as contending that the broadcast confession did not reflect his real views and seemed to have been fabricated...
Some of Carter's bluntest phrases were directed at Moscow's repressive treatment of internal dissent. Clearly referring to the seven-year sentence recently imposed on Helsinki Human Rights Monitor Yuri Orlov, Carter declared that the Soviets' abuse of such rights had earned them "the condemnation of people everywhere who love freedom." "By their actions," Carter added, "they have demonstrated that the Soviet system cannot tolerate freely expressed ideas, notions of loyal opposition and the free movement of peoples. The Soviet Union attempts to export a totalitarian and repressive form of government, resulting in a closed society...
...Kremlin into tightening its control over the region. For that reason, Richard Nixon made the first visit by a U.S. President to Warsaw on the way home from the Moscow summit in 1972, and Gerald Ford stopped in Warsaw en route to a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in Helsinki in 1975. Even during the halcyon days of détente, this concern in Washington over provoking the Kremlin into moving more harshly against Eastern-Europe prevailed. Yugoslavia, which is Communist but nonaligned, and Rumania, the only Warsaw Pact country with no Soviet troops on its territory, were treated as special cases...
...sympathizers outside. Irina, describing the proceedings as a circus, said that her husband did not deny giving the monitor committee's documents to Western journalists. But he insisted that he did so for humanitarian reasons, to bring Soviet practice in line with Moscow's pledges at Helsinki. Orlov sarcastically asked the judges: "Is it a crime to meet foreign correspondents?" According to his wife, he was constantly interrupted by "spectators," hand-picked by the authorities, who shouted: "Traitor." "You're lying...
...that Orlov has been convicted and sentenced, Soviet authorities may soon begin the trials of two other well known members of the Helsinki monitoring committee: Computer Specialist Anatoli Shcharansky and Writer Alexander Ginzburg. Meanwhile the police have been harassing, arresting and trying less well known dissidents. A court in the Soviet Republic of Georgia last week sentenced Zviad Gamsakhurdia, a writer, and Merab Kostava, a musicologist. They, like Orlov, had belonged to a Helsinki monitoring group...