"Please, stop the violation of human rights don't let an innocent man die." That message last week from four Soviet Nobel prizewinners sounded remarkably like hundreds of appeals that have been sent to the Kremlin on behalf of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov. But this letter was addressed to President Ronald Reagan, and the "innocent man" in question was Leonard Peltier, 39, an American Indian imprisoned for life for the 1975 killing of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Ever since Sakharov's latest hunger strike began to...
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