Celebrating Helsinki With the K.G.B.
Date: 16 June 1977
ed on Toth's detention; holds incident is merely most serious in series of harassments of Amer correspondents and diplomats in recent mos; holds no one outside USSR will take such cases and charges seriously as long as Soviel Govt condones illegal and ludicrous conduct of its police and judicial agents
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K.G.B. IS QUESTIONING U.S. CORRESPONDENT; Toth, Called in Spy Case, Is Barred From Leaving Soviet Union K.G.B. Questioning U.S. Reporter
Date: 15 June 1977
By CHRISTOPHER S. WRENBy United Press International
Christopher WRENBy
KGB summons Los Angeles Times correspondent Robert C Toth for interrogation after he is accused of gathering secret information; is questioned about manuscript on parapsychology given to him by scientist Valery G Petukhov; US Acting State Sec Warren M Christopher tells Amb Dobrynin that US views situation with 'serious concern'; Toth is 5th US newsman to be accused of subversive activities in last yr; Toth por (L)
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Guinean at U.N. Rejects Charges Of Torture and Killing of Prisoners
Date: 16 June 1977
Guinea's chief delegate to UN Moussa Sangiana Camara attacks news media, including NY Times, for articles about rept by Internatl League for Human Rights, which charged that pol prisoners were tortured and murdered in Guinea (S)
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Who Is Right?
Date: 16 June 1977
By Vadim Golovanov
Vadim Golovanov
USSR journalist Vadim Golovanov article disputes Western view of repression in USSR and E Eur; cites differing Western and Communist views on freedom of information (M)
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U.S. Expresses 'Serious Concern' to Moscow on Toth
Date: 15 June 1977
NY Times, in statement through its Washington bur chief Hedrick Smith, urges State Dept to do all it can to insure that Los Angeles correspondent Robert Toth is free to perform his journalistic duties and to leave USSR (S)
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U.S. Orders Home General Who Called A Major War Likely; U.S ORDERS GENERAL HOME FOR DISCUSSION
Date: 16 June 1977
By BERNARD WEINRAUB Special to The New York Times
Bernard Special
Army Sec Clifford L Alexander orders Lt Gen Donn A Starry, comdr of US V Corps in W Ger, to rept to him to discuss speech Starry made in Ger saying that US would probably become involved in Chinese-Soviet war in future; Starry also condemned 'liberals' and 'liberal press' in his speech at Frankfurt Amer High School graduation on June 10; Col Ralph E Ropp, chief of Army's Public Information Div, says Starry is being called to Pentagon by Alexander and Army C/S Gen Bernard W Rogers to discuss speech; Starry illus (M)
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K.G.B. Questions U.S. Reporter About Shcharansky
Date: 16 June 1977
By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN Special to The New York Times
Christopher WREN
Some Soviet dissidents contend that Soviet harassment of Los Angeles Times reporter Robert C Toth, coming at opening of Belgrade conf, is slap at Carter; appeal for release of 9 jailed members of group monitoring Soviet compliance with Helsinki accord (M)
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35 COUNTRIES MEET ON HELSINKI ACCORD; Open Belgrade Talks to Prepare Review Conference in Fall 35 COUNTRIES MEET ON HELSINKI ACCORD
Date: 16 June 1977
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE Special to The New York Times
Malcolm BROWNE
Article on demonstrators who bivouac outside UN hq gates bound together by hope they are helping correct what they see as violation of human rights; illus (M)
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