Volume 36, Number 2 · February 16, 1989
The Rights of Gorbachev
By I.F. Stone
In surrendering to Gorbachev's demands for a Moscow human rights conference in 1991, the American government shut its eyes on two key issues. The first is that the USSR will be able to hold the conference without changing the laws and practices that were responsible for past human rights abuses and that choked off surveillance from within by Soviet activists.
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