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...Kremlin has peppered the U.S. with scattered human rights charges ever since the Sacco and Vanzetti case of 1920. But in the maneuvering leading up to this week's summit, the denunciations have reached new heights. The campaign represents a tactical shift by Moscow; while the Soviets still maintain their traditional stony attitude about Western interference in their own "internal affairs," they are now going on the counterattack. In reply to the continued U.S. criticism of Soviet emigration policies and Reagan's recent rebukes of the oppressive nature of Soviet society, the Kremlin under Mikhail Gorbachev has taken the offensive...
Virtually every day, Soviet newspapers fulminate about rampant U.S. censorship, persecution of dissidents, forced labor, religious discrimination and telephone tapping. Film of homeless Americans sleeping on subway grates and bag ladies foraging through trash cans has become so standard on Soviet TV that at least a few viewers must be convinced that all of New York City consists of such unfortunates. Recalling the concentration camps of the Nazi era, a professor serving as a commentator for one show tells his audience, "The U.S. is going through a prison boom; camps for dissidents are hastily being built there...
...been the bombing in Philadelphia last May of the headquarters of Move, a radical cult. "American authorities recently gave the whole world a demonstration of their democracy," TASS declaimed, "when they publicly slaughtered more than a dozen black-skinned inhabitants of Philadelphia and bombed a whole city block." The Soviet press, however, omits any mention of the fact that the mayor of Philadelphia is black and that the bombing has provoked much soul-searching in addition to searing criticism and lengthy hearings and investigations...
...offensive has probably been effective in changing perceptions about the U.S. among some Soviet citizens; its goal of taking the edge off Washington's charges about Moscow's alleged violations is still remote. Washington so far has not reacted to the stepped-up campaign, maintaining an aloof disdain for the Soviet charges, and is quietly relieved that the Soviets are talking about human rights at all. Notes one senior U.S. official: "Everybody here can judge this country's approach to the enhancement of human rights, and they can judge the other side's. We'll let those judgments rest...
...first-time writers with fledgling publishers have a hard time getting noticed. Not this one. Last week, when the small, independent New York publishing house of Richardson & Steirman brought out A Time for Peace by Mikhail Gorbachev, the event was celebrated with a well-stocked press reception at the Soviet embassy in Washington...