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Shultz devoted the bulk of his 20-minute speech to another familiar topic: U.S. displeasure with Moscow's human rights record. He named 22 Soviet citizens victimized by Moscow over the past decade. Among them were Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov, Physicist Yuri Orlov, Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky and more obscure citizens like Yuri Balovlenkov, whose "crime" was to marry a U.S. citizen...
Nonetheless, the Helsinki human rights declarations have produced benefits. A temporary relaxation of barriers to Jewish emigration allowed tens of thousands of separated families to be reunited. Worldwide concern over the fate of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov, now 64, prompted the image-conscious Soviets last week to release a ten-minute color videotape showing the physicist, apparently in good health, and his wife Yelena Bonner. Said a French observer: "If you don't think the accords matter to the Russians, then just watch television." A senior Western diplomat in Moscow concurred: "These agreements give us the basis...
...number of blacks detained without charge passed 1,300 and the death toll in the black townships reached 24, the government banned the holding of mass outdoor funerals in some areas. The services had become the focal point of black grief and outrage. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel laureate who has emerged as the leading voice of moderate black protest against apartheid, conducted an outdoor funeral service beyond the restricted area, declaring that "I will not be told by any secular authority what gospel I must preach...
...along with 19 copyreaders, check every article for grammar, syntax and usage. Some common errors: confusing who and whom, which and that, and homonyms like horde/hoard; mismatched subjects and verbs, as in "One out of five deaths were . . ." (the subject is one); and dangling modifiers like "Winner of the Nobel Prize, her neighbors did not know . . ." (the neighbors...
...them black, approached 1,500 last week, though about 700 have since been released. The death toll since the emergency was declared on July 20 is close to 100. Tension has been steadily increasing, even in areas not covered by the emergency regulations. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate who has emerged as the leading voice of moderate black protest, conducted a mass funeral in Daveyton township and then personally averted an open clash between security forces and hundreds of black mourners...