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...forked tongue, deliberately misleading the American public with totally implausible proposals for arms cuts which fool no one abroad. Reagan has shown he has no intention of reducing the threat of nuclear war by deploying the Pershing II and cruise missiles despite repeated Soviet and European protests. The USSR has said for years it would walk out of Geneva if the new missiles were deployed, and they meant what they said. For some reason, this strikes the majority as an indication of Soviet belligerence, rather that as an expression of the futility of negotiating with a power that makes preposterous...
...Soviets, the majority say, walked out of Geneva because they don't want peace. Even to its authors, this conclusion must seem peculiar. The fact is, they just have to attack the USSR for something. It doesn't really matter what. That's why Sharansky and Sakharov show up in an editorial nominally about nuclear arms talks. Not sure if the Geneva walk-out alone would constitute harsh enough evidence against the Soviets, the authors throw in the sure-fire dissident issue, to reassure their readership, and perhaps themselves, that the USSR really is the bad guy, in arms-control...
...USSR is nasty towards dissidents, true. And the U.S., through its backing of totalitarian regimes, is responsible for the oppression of thousands of dissidents in countries like South Africa, El Salvador and Chile. Neither of these cases, however, is remotely connected to the issue of nuclear arms negotiations...
...weak in defending our human rights ideals," said Yankelevich, adding that the U.S. should more stringently enforce the Helsinki Accords, Mr. Yankelevich, who is Sakharov's official representative in the U.S., said that the film was important because it would bring the subject of Sakharov and life in the USSR to the attention of the American people...
...They are not often exposed to such subjects," he said, "and it is important for Americans to know more about the USSR," adding that the film was essentially true-to-life...