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...Institute for Training in Human Rights, sponsored by the Paris bar and UNESCO, Pettiti was appointed to the French seat on the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last year. He has counseled some celebrated East European dissidents: Anatoli Shcharansky, whose 1978 Moscow trial for "treason" he was forbidden to attend, and Czechoslovak Playwright Vaclav Havel, who was convicted of "subversion...
...destructive forces at work in his country. The thesis of the "manuscript" The Politician, now in its ninth printing with more than 285,000 copies in print, is startling: "Dwight D. Eisenhower was, through his whole career, a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy," and was guilty of treason...
...Literary Gazette charged that Sakharov had "actively opposed detente and the peace efforts of the Soviet government." Despite hints that he might be tried for treason by continuing to speak out against official policy, Sakharov would not be silenced. In a written statement sent from his new home of exile in Gorky, he charged that the Kremlin had "launched a broad demagogic campaign aiming to strengthen its military superiority" in the world. The culmination of this dangerous Soviet policy, said Sakharov, was the "invasion of Afghanistan, where Soviet soldiers are waging merciless war" against the people of Afghanistan...
...putting him on trial. Said one State Department official: "Being exiled to Gorky is a little like being sent to Detroit; it ain't great but it ain't so bad." Still, the Soviet press attacks on Sakharov suggested that he might ultimately be charged with high treason. The government newspaper Izvestia, for example, claimed that the physicist had "repeatedly blurted out things that any state protects as an important secret" to U.S. diplomats and correspondents. Some Soviet officials, however, assured Western journalists that Sakharov would not stand trial and might even be able to continue his work...
...Ayatullah Khomeini is your Man of the Year? This amounts to treason while our men are still captive...