Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the SALT meeting was adjourned for the day, Vance held a private 15-minute session with Gromyko to deliver Carter's message on Shcharansky (an act considerably undercut that same day by Ambassador Andrew Young's statement that the U.S. has political prisoners). Gromyko offered little satisfaction. As he said when a reporter later asked him about the affair, "That is a question that is within the internal competence of the Soviet Union, and I have no intention of discussing it with anyone, not even you-and I hope you'll not take offense...
...first the FBI's only official response was a written statement maintaining that McFall, who oversaw Rowe's undercover activities, constantly advised him "to avoid violence." The statement conflicted somewhat with McFall's own testimony to the Senate committee in 1975. At that time, he said of Rowe: "If he happened to be with some Klansmen and they decided to do something, he couldn't be an angel and [still] be a good informant...
...hallmarks of the trials we knew in Stalin's day" (see box). In Israel, where attacks on Soviet Jews are perceived as a family tragedy, Premier Menachem Begin said that Shcharansky's "only sin was that he wanted to join his people in Israel." In Italy, a statement issued by Italian Communist Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer proclaimed: "Convictions for crimes of opinion cannot be tolerated...
...brother Leonid, who was admitted to the courtroom, the defendant's first action was to dismiss the lawyer who had been assigned to him by the KGB in place of the attorney he had requested and been denied. Conducting his own defense, Shcharansky made a one-hour opening statement to the presiding judge and two lay assessors who constituted a jury. During the five-day trial, his brother later reported, Shcharansky was frequently interrupted by the judge, prohibited from calling defense witnesses and forbidden to question government witnesses...
...timed by the Soviet authorities to coincide with the court cases against Shcharansky and the other human rights activists. The defendant was an office worker named Anatoli Filatov, who was charged with high treason. Tried by a military court, he was sentenced to death by firing squad. An official statement about the trial attempted to connect Filatov, who may have been a real spy, with the dissidents. It said, "The intelligence services of the imperialist states are persistently trying to use some members of Soviet society for intelligence and other subversive aims...