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...jetliner was chartered, flew to Murmansk and brought out to Helsinki the bodies of the two passengers who died in the incident and the surviving crew and passengers, except for the ill-fated flight's captain and navigator. Those two the Russians detained for further questioning on why the plane had ventured so far off course and into Soviet airspace. The Kola Peninsula is a highly sensitive military area for the Soviet Union. Not only is Murmansk the home port for Russia's northern fleet, but there are an estimated 900,000 soldiers and airmen based...
...survivors interviewed in Helsinki were of some help, particularly in reporting that the Soviet account of the incident, which suggested the casualties and damage to the plane were caused by the lake landing, was not the whole truth. In fact, when the jetliner refused to respond to the Russian interceptors' signals, the Soviets had opened fire on the Korean craft. It was their bullets that killed the two passengers and damaged the plane, forcing it to land on the frozen lake near Kem, a landing one passenger described as perfect. After the landing, Captain Kim told his passengers that...
...Belgrade Conference on European Security and Cooperation on March 9. On that day, the U.S.S.R. managed to suppress any mention of human rights in the final document produced by the conferees, even though the 35-nation meeting had been called to review compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords, including its human rights provisions. The Russians evidently seized on the case of Johnny Harris as a convenient riposte...
...Harris case diatribes becloud the Kremlin's stepped-up persecution of human rights activists in the U.S.S.R. The KGB's main target: small groups of dissidents who monitor Soviet compliance with the Helsinki agreements on human rights. In the past 14 months 22 members of these groups have been arrested. Among the most notable are Physicist Yuri Orlov and Writer Alexander Ginzburg. who are charged with "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Computer Specialist Anatoli Shcharansky is accused of treason...
Grigori Goldshtein, 46, and Pyotr Vins, 21, members of Helsinki watch groups in Georgia and the Ukraine, have been sentenced to one year in concentration camps for "malicious evasion of socially useful labor." Leaders of a similar group in Kiev, Engineer Myroslav Marinovych, 28. and Historian Mykola Matusevych, 30, have been sentenced to seven years in jail plus five years of internal exile for "anti-Soviet agitation...