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...states as Viet Nam and Afghanistan. While Gorbachev and his wife attended their Elysee dinner, more than 1,000 people paid about $2.50 each to attend a screening of the U.S. movie Sakharov and to hear speeches by prominent emigres. Police arrested about 30 demonstrators, including Soviet Mathematician Leonid Plyushch, who defied a ban on demonstrations outside the Soviet embassy...
Western governments should press the Soviet Union to respond to President Carter's human rights declaration while they continue to open up trade relations. Leonid Plyushch, a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident, told an overflow crowd at Boylston Hall Auditorium last night...
...Plyushch, who was arrested and confined to a Soviet mental institution in 1973, was scheduled to speak on "Psychiatry as a Tool of Soviet Political Oppression." He confined most of his remarks, however, to a discussion of the efforts of Soviet dissident groups to pressure their government to adhere to the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Accord...
...Plyushch added that the present Soviet government is actually a conservative state-capitalist system. "Stalin, having destroyed all his ideological opponents, destroyed socialism," he said...
...member Soviet delegation boycotted the debate over the censure -"We consider it rigged," said one delegate-but argued outside the halls that the charges were preposterous. After Dissident Mathematician Leonid Plyushch appeared at a press conference and told of his harassment and incarceration as a mental patient, Babayan said "Plyushch is mentally sick. Now that he lives in the West, you will see him and study him in the future. There never was a single case when a healthy person was placed in a mental hospital...