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...West has, in effect, allowed the Soviet Union to ignore their human rights obligations," stated Tatiana Yankelevich, step daughter of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov...
After a special screening of a made-for-television movie about Sakharov, she and Efrem Yankelevich, her husband, answered questions about the exiled physicist and issues of human rights in the Soviet Union...
...These times are very frightening, and it shows to us that we have been too 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...
...speech to an audience composed mostly of representatives of groups from Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Cuba. Reagan called again on the Kremlin to allow outside observes to determine the condition of Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov and his wife. Yelena Bonner He said they "are suffering severe persecution and are cut off from the rest of humanity...
Ever since Sakharov's latest hunger strike began to attract world attention, the Soviet press has been full of reports on the Jailed American Indian activist, who went on a fast in April and again in May to protest prison conditions. Peltier ended his hunger strike, but graphic Soviet newspaper accounts have continued to describe "an emaciated man, starved to exhaustion" and imprisoned on "charges trumped up by U.S. security services." The Reagan Administration points out that whatever absurd parallels Moscow may draw between the two cases, one difference remains: Sakharov has never been convicted of murder...