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Daily Nebraskan
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Soviet dissidents to be freed
Russia changes its approach to human rights
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MOSCOW The Soviet government announced Tuesday
that two more dissidents have been ordered released from
prison and that Jewish activist Josef Begun is likely to be
heed.
If they are released, it would be in line with Kremlin
actions to free dissidents whose imprisonment has been an
obstacle to better Soviet relations with the West. Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev has launched a liberalization
drive and has said the Soviet Union is changing its approach
to human rights "for all to see."
Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said the
government has ordered the release of Anatoly Koryagin and
AlPvanHn- Ofnrndnikov and will "most likelv" free Begun.
Gerosimo" told a news briefing he didn't know whether broke up a series of demonstrations on Begun's behalf last
Koryagin was free yet, but he said a government decision week in the Soviet capital.
was made Friday to pardon him from charges of anti-Soviet Begun, 55, was sentenced to seven years in prison and five
activity. in exile in October 1983 after conviction on charges of
The official Tass news agency issued a report on Gera- anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda,
simov's briefing, quoting him as saying that Koryagin was to Gerasimov told The Associated Press in a telephone call
be set free and that Begun's case was under review. after the briefing that a list of those who had been granted
There have been demonstrations in the United States clemency included Ogorodnikov, 36, who founded a Chris-
nrdny Ream's relfeisa and nlainclothes Dolice in Moscow tian movement in the 1970s.
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In Brief
'Amerika' put Soviet to sleep
WASHINGTON A Soviet diplomat today criticized the television
miniseries "Amerika" as "the worst TV production possible" and said the
programs "one of the most unfortunate products of the Cold War"
had put him to sleep.
"This film, Amerika, is definitely aimed at instigating hatred," charged
Oleg Benyukh, a counselor at the Soviet Embassy and head of its
information office. "It is a production with the most malicious intent."
Benyukh spoke at a news conference that followed by a day interviews
conducted by satellite between the embassy's first secretary, Vitaly
Churkin, and local TV newscasters around the nation.
Yankees' Mattingly to earn $1,975 million
Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees was granted on Tuesday the
largest salary arbitration award in the 13-year history of the procedure,
winning a $1,975 million one-year contract.
"I'm very happy and very pleased with the decision," Mattingly said
through his agent, Jim Krivacs. "I'm happy that it's over."
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner had offered $1.7 million to
Mattingly, his All-Star first baseman who had a .352 batting average last
year with 113 RBI and 31 homers.
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Gates: I would resign if
forced to hide operations
WASHINGTON Robert M. Gates, gua's Contra rebels,
the professional intelligence officer no- Gates, a 43-year-old career CIA ana-
minated to run the CIA, testified Tues- lyst, was nominated this month to
day he would consider resigning if replace William J. Casey, who retired at
ordered by the White House to conceal 73 after surgery for a cancerous brain
a covert operation from Congress for tumor.
more than a few days.
But Gates said he would have been
irresponsible had he relied on what he
said was the "flimsy" information avail
able to him early last October to inform
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The nominee, who would become the
youngest person and the third career
professional ever to head the CIA,
repeatedly promised to revive a rela
tionship of candor and trust with the
congressional committees that oversee
the CIA's secret work.
Vietnam purges
Council of
Ministers
BANGKOK, Thailand Vietnam
said Tuesday it had dismissed 12
government ministers in what analysts
saw as an effort to bring in specialists
who can revive the communist nation's
moribund economy.
One of the most sweeping political
housecleanings in Vietnam's history
follows a tide of self-criticism and the
resignations last December of three
top party leaders.
The official Voice of Vietnam radio
announced the purge of the Council of
Ministers and said elections will be
held April 19 for members of the eighth
National Assembly.
More leadership changes are ex
pected in conjunction with the elec
tions, including choice of a new
premier to replace the 80-year-old
Pham Van Dong, although the assembly
itself has little power.
"You can call it the 'Gorbachev
effect,' " a knowledgeable academic
said privately, referring to Kremlin
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's stream
lining of the Soviet hierarchy. Moscow
is Vietnam's closest ally.
"It's a complete reworking of the
apparatus," he said. "There has been a
concensus to put technocrats into the
government for the sake of efficiency."
Dong, Communist Party chief Truong
Chinh and key Politburo member Le
Due Tho quit their party posts during
the sixth party congress in December
but retained government positions.