Word: madrid
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...Madrid conference is soured by Soviet intransigence...
...U.S.S.R. is not prepared to be a bull in the corrida of Madrid," declared Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. That pronouncement served as a dour keynote for the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe that convened in the Spanish capital last week. The object of the long-scheduled conference was to review the members' compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords on military security, economic cooperation and human rights. But throughout, it was clear that the Soviets had every intention of blocking any proceedings devoted to their own human rights record or their Afghanistan invasion...
Adding to Moscow's discomfiture was a surge of human rights activism directly inspired by the Madrid conference. Some 8,000 scientists from 44 non-Communist countries broke relations with Soviet scientific organizations to protest the persecution of Soviet colleagues. In seven Soviet cities, 139 Jewish dissidents began a three-day hunger strike, while 100 others crowded into Moscow's Supreme Soviet building demanding to emigrate to Israel. Exiles from the U.S.S.R. converged upon Madrid to hold press conferences detailing repression at home. Outside the Palace of Congresses, Maris Kirsons, a 39-year-old Latvian-born Lutheran minister...
...Notte--Four "night" works by as many composers, including Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." The surprise of the set, performed by the Lucerne Festival Strings, is Boccherini's evocative quintet, "Night Music of the Streets of Madrid," which alone is worth the price of admission. (Vanguard...
Morris Kranc, a Cambridge resident who returned from the Soviet Union a week ago after a 10-day visit with refuseniks in Moscow, Kiev and Kishinev, reported that Vladimir Tsukerman, one of the six, had been arrested and sentenced to imprisonment until after the Madrid Conference, because he refused to obey the KGB's orders that he call off his hunger strike...