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MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet
vernment announced Tuesday
at two more dissidents have been
dered released from prison and
at Jewish activist Josef Begun is
likely to be freed.
■ If they are released, it would be in
Sne with Kremlin actions to free dis
sidents whose imprisonment has
en an obstacle to better relations
with the West. Soviet leader Mikhail
■Gorbachev has launched a liberali
zation drive and has said the Soviet
Union is changing its approach to
human rights “for all to see.”
■ Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen-
Ttdy Gerasimov said the govern-
|ent has ordered the release of
latoly Koryagin and Alexander
orodnikov and will “most likely”
free Begun.
Gerasimov told a news briefing he
jdn’t know whether Koryagin was
e yet, but he said a government
cision was made Friday to pardon
Jm from charges of anti-Soviet ac
tivity.
“Today or tomorrow he will be re-
sed,” Gerasimov said.
The official news agency Tass is
sued a report on Gerasimov’s brief
ing, quoting him as saying that Ko
ryagin was to be set free and that
Begun’s case was under review.
There have been demonstrations
in the United States urging Begun’s
release, and plainclothes police in
Moscow broke up a series of demon
strations on Begun’s behalf last week
in the Soviet capital.
Begun, 55, was sentenced to seven
years in prison and five in exile in
October 1983 after conviction on
charges of anti-Soviet propaganda.
Gerasimov told the Associated
Press in a telephone call after the
briefing that a list of those who had
been granted clemency included
Ogorodnikov, 36, who founded a
Christian movement in the 1970s.
Sentenced in 1980 to six years in
labor camp, Ogorodnikov is serving
a second, consecutive three-year sen
tence for alleged anti-Soviet activity.
Gerasimov said about 150 dissi
dents have been granted pardons so
far in a review of sentences under
two laws prohibiting anti-Soviet ag
itation and propaganda and anti-So
viet slander. He said 140 to 150 cases
are still being considered.
He announced about 140 of the
releases a week earlier, saying they
were made by decree of the Su
preme Soviet, the national parlia
ment. Gerasimov said those freed
applied for pardons and promised
to cease anti-Soviet behavior.
Some of the released prisoners
said they had not made such a prom
ise.
Gerasimov evaded a question
about whether Koryagin would be
required to emigrate in return for
his freedom.
“He is now in prison where there
is no desk to buy air tickets,” Gerasi
mov replied.
Koryagin, a 48-year-old psychia
trist, was sentenced in 1981 to seven
years in prison and five years’ inter
nal exile after publishing reports
that the Soviet government sent
some dissidents to mental hospitals.
Georgy Arbatov, head of the
U.S.A.-Canada Institute, said during
an interview with American tele
vision on Sunday that Begun had
been freed.
But Begun’s wife, Inna, said she
had heard nothing from her hus
band by Tuesday night.
4 killed in fierce Beirut battles,
arking third day of faction fights
■BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Shiites
fought an alliance of Druse and
communist gunmen for the third
day Tuesday in a battle for control
of Moslem west Beirut that has
caused scores of casualties and set
whole neighborhoods ablaze.
rofeBPolice said at least 24 people were
killed and 125 wounded Tuesday in
from;J west Beirut’s fiercest factional strug-
fX glc for three years.
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^■Thev said the toll was at least 30
jlsidead and 150 wounded since the
guaj fighting began Sunday.
itQmMlDozens of fires raged in resi-
[ dential districts because the intensity
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Syria backs all the factions in
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In theory they are allied in the 12-
year-old civil war with Lebanon’s
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