Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...champion of human rights ever since he passed the Paris bar at the age of 19. Founder of the 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...
...usual, the Italians have led the way in declaring their independence of Moscow. At a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg two weeks ago, Berlinguer introduced a resolution that condemned the Afghanistan invasion but also called upon the nine members of the European Community to preserve détente by negotiating with the Soviet Union on their own. In Rome Communist Spokesman Luciano Barca said: "We are closer to the Social Democrats of Germany and Benelux than to the party in France...
...Marchais, who once pretended to independence from Moscow, echoed Brezhnev in saying that the Soviets had acted only to resist an imperialist threat, but Spain's more wayward Communists criticized the Soviet move. The Italian Communists were more rebellious. In a resolution introduced before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Italian Communist deputies declared the invasion "an open violation of the principles of national independence and sovereignty." The Italians' goal, in the view of expert observers, is to win enough credibility to enable them to join in a coalition government in Rome...