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The Gates of NovemberTo counter that attitude and the possible sacrifice of human rights by the White House for the goal of dц©tente, Representative Millicent Fenwick introduced a bill on March 23, 1976, to set up БЂњa commission to monitor compliance with the Helsinki Accords.БЂ«The bill passed. Congressman Dante Fascell became chairman of the commission. At the time the bill was making its way through Congress and to the desk of President Ford, who signed it that June, Yuri Orlov, a Soviet physicist and longtime dissident, organized a group in Moscow to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights agreements, which came to be known as the Helsinki Accords Monitoring Group. Similar monitoring groups, stimulated by the Helsinki group but independent of it, then came into existence in other regions of the Soviet Union-the Ukraine, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia. From those groups issued a steady stream of reports on arrests, on trials, on the persecution of Pentecostalists, Catholics, Crimean Tatars, on conditions in labor camps, on the use of drugs and psychiatric treatment against political prisoners-on a vast range of human rights abuses ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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