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...hammer out a technical agreement on the date, duration, agenda and procedures of a larger session in Belgrade next October. There the U.S., the Soviet Union, Canada and 32 European states are to discuss how the signatories have complied with the 1975 CSCE accords proclaimed at the Helsinki summit...
...journalists. American officials have sharply denied the charge. Fearing that a sensational show trial is in preparation, the U.S. State Department expressed "deep concern," pointing out that the accused men were all members of an unofficial group monitoring Soviet observance of the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accords on European security. Clearly, the Soviets' destruction of the Russian group was calculated to manifest their disdain for the 35-nation conference that will convene in Belgrade on June 15 to assess compliance with the Helsinki agreements...
Titled "Appeal for Respect of Human Rights for Evangelical Believers in Rumania," the 20-page petition accuses the regime of violating the Helsinki declaration of 1975, in which 35 nations promised to respect religious and other liberties. The repression of Rumanian Evangelicals may be less harsh than that of other religious and political dissidents in Eastern Europe, but the petition raises important questions that the government may have to answer at next month's Belgrade conference to review the Helsinki accord. The petition charges three basic types of persecution...
...Russians have an expression, "To send the bells a-pealing without consulting the church calendar." The article "Spirit of Helsinki, Where Are You?" [Jan. 24] is a fitting illustration of that phrase because it mourns the "spirit of Helsinki" and alleges that the East European countries are infringing the provisions of the agreement. I entertain grave doubts concerning the knowledge of the article's authors of that act and their right to judge who fulfills it and who does...
...their commitment to "a democratic way," the godfathers of Euro-Communism disagreed sharply on just how deeply they should cut the Kremlin's apron strings. They reached no agreement at all on the sensitive issue of dissidence in the Soviet bloc, other than a mild approval of the Helsinki accord...