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Last week the trial of a non-dissident was timed by the Soviet authorities to coincide with the court cases against Shcharansky and the other human rights activists. The defendant was an office worker named Anatoli Filatov, who was charged with high treason. Tried by a military court, he was sentenced to death by firing squad. An official statement about the trial attempted to connect Filatov, who may have been a real spy, with the dissidents. It said, "The intelligence services of the imperialist states are persistently trying to use some members of Soviet society for intelligence and other subversive...
...succeed in terrorizing dissidents into silence with show trials like Shcharansky's? The consensus among both dissidents and Sovietologists abroad appears to be that they will live to fight another day. "The publicity given the trials is very encouraging," said Computer Scientist Valentin Turchin, 47, who was a prominent human rights activist before he emigrated to New York City last year. Although the Soviet press has hardly mentioned the protests in Western Europe and the U.S., news of them was beamed to millions in the Soviet Union by Radio Liberty and other Western short-wave stations. "The awful thing about...
British Sovietologist Peter Reddaway, a longtime observer of the dissident scene, believes that the human rights movement's links with religious minorities and ethnic groups like the Ukrainians give it a potential mass base. "An unpleasant period is ahead for the dissident groups, but I'm sure they will respond as they have in the past, by toughing it out. A pattern has been established over the years: when dissident leaders disappear, others come forward to take their place." There was no more compelling proof of the dissidents' will to resist than the closing statement delivered by Shcharansky...
...great surprise that the birth of the cloned boy had supposedly occurred five months before the date of Rorvik's letter. "If Rorvik's story were true," says Bromhall, "then by the time he wrote to me, he and 'the Darwin team' knew more about human cloning than anyone in the world. Then why did he ask my advice? The whole thing is so obviously untrue. We just must not allow this sort of hoax to pass...
...Human Factor, Greene...