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...deadline has passed. Vladimov did write a letter to Yuri Andropov asking to be allowed to emigrate. He told the Soviet leader that he was "ready to accept the familiar thorns of a Russian writer and walk under the vaults of Lefortovo Prison," but had decided to leave for his family's sake. Wrote Vladimov: "To be forced to this is painful and humiliating. We have already proved our love for Russia by the patience with which we endured persecution, repression, humiliation...
...doing "something wrong" to let people know Soviet persecution of religions refusing to be state-controlled? Dr. Graham says he saw no evidence of religious repression during his tour--did he have time in his "guided" tour to visit Father Dubko and Father Yakunin, who are in Moscow's Lefortovo prison because of their evangelistic work...
...country. One of the Soviet Union's most talented writers, Georgi Vladimov, has been under constant threat of arrest because he is the Moscow representative of Amnesty International, the organization that reports on political prisoners around the world. Early this month Vladimov was summoned to Moscow's Lefortovo Prison for interrogation by the KGB. In the process, Vladimov suffered a heart attack...
...Embassy Secretary Virginia Olbrish, when policemen accosted him at a traffic light and dragged him from his car. When his fiancée resisted the cops, she was bruised in the scuffle. Late last week, U.S. Consul Clifford Gross was allowed to visit Crawford at Moscow's Lefortovo Prison. Crawford appeared to be in good health but was distraught. U.S. officials insist that the Soviet allegations are trumped up. "There is no indication that he was into anything that wasn't completely aboveboard," said a senior State Department official...
Anatoli Shcharansky, the Soviet computer expert and Jewish activist who has become the leading target of Moscow's campaign against dissidents, is nearing a grim anniversary: as of next week, he will have been held incommunicado for a full year in Moscow's Lefortovo prison while awaiting trial on espionage charges. Last week the regime gave him a present of sorts, a state-appointed lawyer named Silva Dubrovskaya, who was described by the chairman of the Moscow bar association as a "lovely woman and a very experienced trial lawyer." One of her first acts was to express surprise...