Word: sakharovs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes, you have to decide which interests you're going to pursue most vigorously. Otherwise you might overload the circuit." In the first three weeks of Carter's Administration, he blew several fuses in U.S.-Soviet relations by publicly protesting the harassment of Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov. The Kremlin reacted by cracking down even harder on dissidents and warning Washington that the human rights campaign was "incompatible" with detente in general and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in particular. Since then, Carter, Brzezinski and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance have continued to remonstrate with the Russians...
...away from its see-no-evil stance. Psychiatric Terror, a book by British Psychiatrist Sidney Bloch and British Political Scientist Peter Reddaway, which describes more than 200 cases of Soviet psychiatric abuses, was timed to appear just before the meeting. Thirty-four Soviet dissidents, including Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov, signed an appeal to the gathering asking for condemnation of Soviet psychiatric abuse. A few of the dissidents showed up at the meeting, including former Leningrad Psychiatrist Marina Voikhanskaya, who marched to the stage to present the meeting with a "white list" of Soviet political victims in mental hospitals...
Russia's leading dissident, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, last week called upon the Kremlin to grant amnesty to political prisoners, as a good-will gesture connected with the Brezhnev-constitution celebrations. Any such amnesty seems unlikely. Instead, Soviet authorities have stepped up their persecution of human rights activists. Anatoli Shcharansky, a leading dissident, was charged with treason. Along with a number of other Jews, he has been accused of working for CIA agents disguised as U.S. diplomats and journalists. American officials have sharply denied the charge. Fearing that a sensational show trial is in preparation, the U.S. State Department expressed...
Amnesty International officials who helped Kapiloff place the call told him no one has made contact with Sakharov for three months...
...Sakharov is screaming and we want to show some one is listening," Kapiloff said last night...