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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1978
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Soviets, Americans in third round
of military arms limitation talks
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HELSINKI, Finland — A third
round of Soviet-American talks
aimed at limiting the spread of con
ventional arms began Tuesday at the
U.S. Embassy.
Discussions between the two
superpowers to limit the sales of
conventional weapons began last
year in Washington. Follow-up talks
were held this year in Helsinki May
4-8.
A U.S. government spokesman
said the talks were in the national
interest as the increasingly rapid
conventional arms buildup posed a
serious risk to regional stability and
to world peace.
The two delegations, headed by
Ambassador Lev Mendelevich for
the Soviet Union and Leslie H.
Gelb, director of the Bureau of
Politico-military affairs at the State
Department, meet alternately at the
Soviet and American embassies.
After a three-and-a-half hour
opening session, Mendelevich said.
“We have resumed discussions and
the meeting has been conducted in
a good spirit.
“We both expect successful prog
ress in these negotiations. Helsinki
is a nice location for our talks, which
of
we expect to take until the end
next week. ”
The two delegations will split into
working groups before conferring at
the full plenary session scheduled
for Friday.
Rhodesian prime minister charges
black colleagues blocked cease-fire
United Press International
SALISBURY, Rhodesia — Prime
Minister Ian Smith Tuesday blamed
the three black members of
Rhodesia’s interim government for
failure to secure a cease-fire be
tween whites and black guerrillas.
“It must be clear to everybody
that as far as the cease-fire is con
cerned, this is something which is in
the hands of my black colleagues,”
Smith said in a news conference.
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“There is little I can do other than
to ask our security forces to work
with them (the black politicians) and
cooperate with them. They are
doing this to the full.”
Two of Smith’s black government
partners. Bishop Abel Muzorewa
and The Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole,
have said they have enough influ
ence over black nationalist guerrillas
to bring on a significant deescalation
of the five-year-old war.
But the conflict, which has
claimed more than 11,000 lives, has
sharply escalated since the “internal
agreement” was signed in March.
“So don’t let’s be mealy-mouthed
about it,” Smith said. “This clearly
is a field in which my black col
leagues operate almost exclusively
and I hope we re going to have bet
ter results from now on.”
Soviet prison camps
follow strict regime
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MOSCOW — Vyatchislav Re-
pnikov knows where Anatoly
Shcharansky is going. He has been
there himself, and Soviet prison
camp is an experience he can never
forget.
Repnikov, 52, spent 10 years in a
“strict regime labor camp in the
Mordivian Republic after he was
convicted of treason and anti-Soviet
agitation and propaganda — the
same charges laid against
Shcharansky, who was sentenced
Friday to three years in prison plus
10-year term in a “strict regime”
camp.
Repnikov was in the camp from
1959 to 1969. He says his fellows
were anarchists, pure Marxists —
known as revisionists at the time —
and common criminals, called zeks
the Soviet prison system.
After I had served half of the
term, I was allowed to get food
packages once a year,” he said as he
aited with supporters outside the
courthouse where Shcharansky was
tried.
I was also allowed to have one
personal visit a year.”
The visits were held in a "re
ndezvous house outside of the
camp. Any food brought by relatives
had to be consumed in the house.
Nothing could be brought back to
camp.
He worked eight hours a day mak
ing furniture during his term and he
said he found he could speak more
freely in the camps than he could
when he lived in Moscow.
Breakfast was bread and soup.
Lunch was bread, soup and vegeta
bles and kasha, a buckwheat dish.
Dinner was kasha and fish.
‘They would have meat only on
special days like May Day and Nov.
7th (the anniversary of the Russian
revolution),’’ he said.
“In theory there was meat all the
time, in the soup. But there is an
old Russian saying about that. Soup
means a grain following a grain stir
red by a stick. He said this means
the soup was little more than watery
broth.
How did Repnikov get in prison?
At age 18, he said, he became an
“Amerikanskiophile” and wrote a
letter to an American magazine. As
a result he was arrested and sent to a
psychiatric hospital.
Repnikov said he was released
from the hospital in 1955, and made
contacts with various Western
newsmen. He was arrested in 1959
on the high treason charges, he said,
because of those contacts.
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