Word: yuri
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Outraged by what they describe as a "perfect mockery of justice," a group of Harvard Law School professors signed a petition sent last week to Moscow and the Soviet Embassy in Washington, denouncing the conviction of Soviet physicist Yuri Orlov who was found guilty last week in Moscow of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda...
...Harvard Physics professors have cancelled upcoming trips to the Soviet Union in protest of last week's trial and sentencing of Yuri F. Orlov, a Soviet physicist and critic of Soviet human rights policies...
...persecution of human rights activists in the U.S.S.R. The KGB's main target: small groups of dissidents who monitor Soviet compliance with the Helsinki agreements on human rights. In the past 14 months 22 members of these groups have been arrested. Among the most notable are Physicist Yuri Orlov and Writer Alexander Ginzburg. who are charged with "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Computer Specialist Anatoli Shcharansky is accused of treason...
Shcharansky faces a sentence that ranges from ten years in prison to an unlikely extreme of execution if he is convicted, and Attorney Dubrovskaya probably could not get him off even if she seriously attempted to. After all, he has already been convicted in the Soviet press. Tass Commentator Yuri Kornilov, for instance, insists that he will be found guilty because he helped a foreign state (meaning the U.S.) in hostile activities against the Soviet Union. Moscow radio's foreign-language broadcasts have frequently cited "facts" to "demonstrate" his guilt...
...boss, Yuri Andropov, took command in 1967, and in 1973 became the first KGB head since Stalin's dreaded Lavrenti Beria to join the ruling Politburo. Andropov, 63, is said to admire modern art and to be a witty conversationalist who speaks fluent English-a portrait that contrasts with his harsh actions as Moscow's Ambassador to Hungary during the 1956 uprising. Under Andropov, says one Western analyst, "the thugs are being weeded...