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...million in war supplies to New Delhi when the Sino-Indian border war erupted in 1962. But, though Washington stopped arms deliveries to both countries when the Pakistan-India war erupted in 1965, the mantle of nonpartisan peacemaker went to the Soviets, who sponsored the truce talks at Tashkent...
...wear, Anson arrived early last week in Phnom-Penh, where he was soon reunited with his wife Diane. From there, the couple flew to Saigon for a festive gathering with members of the Saigon bureau and Time-Life News Service Chief Murray Gart, who flew in from Europe via Tashkent. Gart arrived with champagne, a tin of caviar and a bottle of vodka, which formed the first course of a feast that lasted well into the night, as Anson set about regaining some of those lost pounds. He reports on his experience in this week's World section...
Their concern was well founded. Former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, a Russian political dissident who is currently reported being held in a mental institution in Tashkent, managed to send out notes that his wife has made public. "They decided to break me immediately," he wrote. "They put me into a strait jacket, beat me and choked me." When he went on a hunger strike, the attendants brutally inserted an expander into his mouth. Scribbled Grigorenko, "Force-feeding every day. I resist as much as I can. They beat me and choke me again. They twist my hands, hit my crippled...
...Beirut International Airport, customs men have trained dogs to sniff out drugs hidden in luggage. In Tashkent, a woman Soviet agent with a superb olfactory sense sniffed hash carried by three young Americans, who were flying via Aeroflot from Afghanistan to Finland. Two are still serving time in the infamous Potma labor camp southeast of Moscow...
...fact that he taught cybernetics at the Frunze Academy, the Russian equivalent of West Point, made him a particular embarrassment to Soviet authorities. They cashiered him from the army, and in 1964 confined him in a lunatic asylum for 14 months. Last May, he was arrested in Tashkent and, without trial, was sent for an indefinite period to another asylum as a "paranoid." Copies of Grigorenko's own notes on his treatment are now circulating from hand to hand in Moscow. Following are excerpts that describe his experience in the cellar of the KGB headquarters in Tashkent...