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...frightening. The exploits of our people in the war against Hitler added an aura of heroism to that image. Khrushchev's thaw added glimmers of hope for mutual understanding. The horrible truth about Stalin's camps, the arrests of dissidents, the abuses of psychiatry, the exile of Academician Andrei Sakharov, the presence of our troops in Afghanistan -- all lined up and blown out of proportion by reactionary elements in the Western press -- worked to destroy the heroic aura, reducing our image to that of an anti-Christ "empire of evil." However, thanks to the peaceful initiatives of our country...
...bandwagon Gorbachev tows to the conference is crowded. Part of his political success lies in the fact that he has made room for nearly everybody, from the redoubtable dissident Andrei Sakharov to Russian Orthodox priests to downtrodden workingwomen. Perhaps the only major category of citizenry not invited aboard consists of habitual tipplers, who have been driven to moonshine, cologne cocktails and sullen anger over Gorbachev's anti-alcoholism campaign...
...Sunday, Shultz quizzed Andrei D. Sakharov about human rights, arms control and Soviet reforms and met with a group of Jewish refuseniks to underscore U.S. concern for human rights in the Soviet Union...
...Sakharov, who won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to protect human rights, met with reporters after seeing Shultz...
...Sakharov said the Soviet Union has not yet made enough progress to merit holding an international human rights conference...