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...next day, during his private meeting with Shultz at the U.S. embassy residence, Shevardnadze was accompanied by Anatoli Dobrynin, longtime Soviet Ambassador to Washington, and several other aides. (Later it was learned that Dobrynin will soon leave his post in Washington, where he has been Ambassador for the past 23 years, to become one of Shevardnadze's top deputies in Moscow...
...that would appear on the agenda of the November summit. According to the U.S. side, the program would include four categories: 1) arms control and security, 2) regional conflicts such as Afghanistan, Kampuchea and Central America, 3) bilateral matters, including trade and cultural exchanges, and 4) human rights. But Soviet officials asserted that only three categories would be discussed; human rights did not appear on the Soviet list...
...Helsinki commitments covered a multitude of human endeavors, but the pledges on guaranteeing basic human rights have become the most contentious. It is here that the Final Act has fallen significantly short of its goal, largely owing to noncompliance by the Soviet Union and its East European satellites. Exasperation over Western scrutiny of Soviet behavior was recently expressed by Yuri Zhukov, a columnist for the Soviet newspaper Pravda, who said that "it has been hammered into the minds of the people in the West for ten years" that the Final Act amounts merely to a declaration on human rights...
...Soviets have good reason to try to deflect attention from their record. Nearly all the groups that sprang up behind the Iron Curtain to monitor compliance with the Helsinki accords have been crushed. By 1982, 17 of the 20 members of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group had been imprisoned, forced to emigrate or exiled within the Soviet Union. The remaining three reluctantly disbanded the organization, admitting, "The group cannot fulfill its duties." The New York City-based Helsinki Watch Committee this month cited estimates that as many as 10,000 political prisoners still languish in Soviet jails and labor camps...
...from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed with Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifles, sometimes replaced by gangs of thugs brandishing long knives, roamed through the city, looting stores, stealing cars and harassing Ugandans and foreigners alike...