Word: sakharovs
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Jewish Conspiracy. Moscow's actions were certainly disquieting for the new Administration. The State Department's warning to the Soviet Union cautioned against carrying out an official threat to prosecute Andrei Sakharov, the dissident leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Although Cyrus Vance and Jimmy Carter both waffled somewhat on the exact wording of their commitment to take a moral stand in foreign policy, both had ultimately backed State's critique of the Soviets' behavior. In his fireside chat last week, Carter repeated his concern for human rights, stressing, though, that this would...
...Czech statement had been approved in advance by Secretary Vance. But when the Sakharov announcement hit the headlines, the Administration said that neither Vance nor Carter had known that it was coming-but that it had their approval nonetheless and was in the spirit of the new Administration's position on human rights. The message that the State Department released apparently came from a draft paper that had been prepared by the European section but had not yet reached Vance's desk for his consideration...
Some evidence of the difficulties Soviet dissidents face was made plain last week in a letter by Sakharov himself to Carter, which was delivered to the State Department by an American civil liberties lawyer who had met Sakharov in Russia the week before. In the letter Sakharov said that dissidents have "a hard, almost unbearable situation" in the East bloc countries and argued that "our and your duty is to fight for them...
...State Department broadsides broke a longstanding taboo against strong comment on the internal policies of other countries. They also marked the first effort by Washington to take the Eastern regimes to task for not living up to the Helsinki provisions. When he learned of the statement about Sakharov, Anatoli Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., telephoned Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to protest. That prompted a curious diplomatic minuet that left an impression of some disarray in the State Department...
Even as the Carter Administration was scolding the Kremlin for its mistreatment of Andrei Sakharov, the President and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev moved vigorously to resume the long-interrupted East-West dialogue on arms control. It was almost as if a referee had blown a whistle after a lengthy timeout; the diplomatic ball had suddenly bounced into play...