<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>>

LETTERS AND STATEMENTS

• 23-1. General (1-3, 11)
• 23-2. Letters & Statements by Sakharov (4-10)
• 23-3. Moscow Helsinki Group, documents 26-38

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26 (21 Nov 1977): To the CSCE Conference in Belgrade to review the implementation of the 1975 Helsinki Agreement. (This document was summarized in CCE 47.15 [9], but its number was not indicated, and the list of authors was incomplete.)

27 (25 Dec 1977): Prolonging the period of Alexander Ginzburg, Yury Orlov and Anatoly Shcharansky‘s pre-trial detention (CCE 48.2).

28 (31 Dec 1977): Pyotr Vins (CCE 48.3).

29 (12 Jan 1978): Vladimir P. Khailo (CCE 48.16-2).

30 (2 Feb 1978): Violations of the freedom of postal and telephonic communication.

A list of 74 disconnected telephones is appended.

For example, in December 1977 the telephones of Moscow residents Lev Kopelev (CCE 45.17), Maria Petrenko-Podyapolskaya, Vladimir Slepak, at the Tverdokhlebovs’ flat, Boris Chernobylsky, Vladimir Tufeld and Natalya Khasina, and of Leningrad resident Ada Taratuta, were all disconnected.

31 (2 Feb 1978): The arrest of Levko Lukyanenko (CCE 48.3).

32 (2 Feb 1978): The right to leave one’s country (CCE 48.17).

33 (Feb 1978): Alexander Zinoviev (CCE 48.18).

34 (Feb 1978): Reclassification of charges against Yury Orlov (CCE 48.2).

35 (Feb 1978): Statement about the CSCE conference in Belgrade (see “Document 26”, above).

“… the wrecking of the conference by the Soviet Union on the pretext of [Western] interference in its internal affairs would be, of course, a great misfortune. It would involve a prolonged but nonetheless temporary delay on the historically inevitable path of détente.

“But a far greater misfortune, a catastrophe with consequences for the whole future of humanity and one that would be hard to put right, would be a capitulation before the [Soviet] threat to wreck the conference.”

36 (16 Feb 1978): Formation of the ‘Free Trade Union’ (CCE 48.21).

37 (9 March 1978): The right to a pension depending on the period worked, and the size of pensions.

38 (9 March 1978): The position of invalids deprived of the possibility of independent movement from place to place. A call for the formation of an association of such invalids (see CCE 51.17).

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<<Moscow Helsinki Group (documents 1-195): 1976-1982>>

English translations of the different Helsinki Group statements may be found in:

[1-3] Helsinki Accord Monitors: Vol 1 (Feb 1977), Vol 2 (June 1977), Vol 3 (Nov 1978) and [4] The Right to Know, the Right to Act, Washington, 1978.

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