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Boston's Human Rights Commission observed the anniversary on Saturday with a conference on human rights. Speakers included former Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov, Assistant Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs James Montgomery, and Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist whose survival under Pol Pot's regime was documented in the film, "The Killing Fields...
...Alexei Smirnov was beginning. On May 12, I went to Moscow. Smirnov would be tried the next morning.* I pictured the stairs to the bridge over the railroad tracks -- it had to be crossed to reach the courthouse. So many had been tried there: Bukovsky, Krasnov-Levitin, Tverdokhlebov, Orlov (Yuri Orlov, a dissident, and his wife Irina Valitova are being released in the wake of the Daniloff affair), Tanya Velikanova, Tanya Osipova, among...
Daniloff was back home as part of a multilayered deal that could not be called a deal between the U.S. and the Soviets, which included the no-contest plea and departure of Soviet Spy Gennadi Zakharov, the imminent release of Soviet Dissident Yuri Orlov, and the softening of a U.S. order expelling 25 Soviet employees at the U.N. For 31 days, Daniloff had been the human symbol of the tense, complicated maneuverings between the superpowers. Yet throughout his publicized ordeal, he had not merely symbolized the difficult bargaining between Reagan and Gorbachev but had become a participant, publicly insisting that...
...release last week of both Daniloff andZakharov, along with Soviet dissident Yuri F.Orlov, cleared the way for the super power summitin Iceland this weekend...
...this point more than I do. But there's an element of truth beneath his commie paranoia. "The fact is," said Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), "a crisis was gotten through with reasonable dignity." Weeeell...yeah, in a way. Nick Daniloff is home, prominent Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov and his wife are free, and the heads of the two superpowers will meet to discuss arms control...