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...bald, bull-necked man in the dock sat impassively at the edge of his chair listening intently. Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, 66, a retired Ohio auto mechanic, was on trial in Jerusalem for operating gas chambers and murdering and torturing victims at Treblinka, the infamous Nazi extermination camp in eastern Poland where at least 850,000 Jews were killed in 1942 and '43. It was Israel's first war-crimes trial since Adolf Eichmann was convicted and executed a quarter-century ago. At issue, however, was not the horrors committed at Treblinka by the Ukrainian guard known as "Ivan...
Those released ranged from religious activists to Ukrainian and Baltic nationalists, but the majority seemed to have been imprisoned under Article 70 of the criminal code on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Many had been jailed for expressing criticism that in the Gorbachev era has become standard fare in the press. Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson, who recently led a delegation of members of the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations on a visit to Moscow, remarked last week that he had been struck by the degree to which glasnost has affected Soviet life. Said...
Sakharov's release seems in keeping with Gorbachev's calls for glasnost, or openness. That campaign was evident as the Soviet media promptly reported a major methane-gas explosion that claimed an undisclosed number of lives in a Ukrainian coal mine. Beyond such candor, Gorbachev seeks what he has called a "fresh voice" to provide criticism in the one-party Soviet Union. The Soviet leader may hope that Sakharov will play that role. If not, Sakharov's views may conveniently get lost in the din of glasnost. Gorbachev may further hope that Sakharov will give Moscow's lagging reform agenda...
...Valsilyeva of Riga wanted to know about differences in men's and women's salaries in the U.S. Marilyn Levinson of Erie, Pa., wanted the recipe for shchi, a Russian cabbage soup. Later Anderson took his wife to a restaurant and they ended up dancing with a group of Ukrainian tourists from, of all places, Chernobyl. Said Anderson: "I'm sure those people will go home and tell their friends that we're not all that...
Only one concrete move looked like U.S. retaliation for Daniloff's confinement. On Wednesday American officials handed Soviet U.N. Ambassador Alexander Belonogov the names of 25 members of the Soviet, Belorussian and Ukrainian U.N. missions who are to be expelled from the U.S. by Oct. 1. All 25 were intelligence officers, Administration officials said at a briefing in Washington. Six months ago, the U.S. had ordered the swollen mission staffs to be reduced by about 38% -- from 275 to 170 -- in four stages beginning Oct. 1, but had left it to Moscow to choose whom to send packing...