This hearing focused on the implementation of the Helsinki Accords and explored proposals for advancing compliance. The Commissioners and witnesses discussed how the accords could better East-West relations. They discussed how the framework of the Helsinki accords helps provide protection against armed intervention in internal affairs, or the threat of such intervention. The Commissioners heard testimonies from those working on human rights in Warsaw Pact countries and from many American citizens seeking reunification with relatives in Warsaw Pact countries.
Members
Hon. Dante Fascell
Chairman
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Hon. Patrick Leahy
Commissioner
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Hon. Millicent Fenwick
Commissioner
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Witnesses
Leonard Garment
Former U.S. Represenative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Vladimir Bukovsky
Former Soviet Political Prisoner
Tad Saule
Free-lance writer and former New York Times foriegn correspondent
Tomas Venclova
Lithuanian poet; Member
Lithuania Group to Promote Observance of the Helsinki Agreements
Dr. Andrew Zwarun
President
Helsinki Guarantees for Ukraine Committee of Washington, D.C.
John Armitage
Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
Department of State
Anatol Michelson
U.S. Citizen seeking reunification with wife and daughter in the USSR
Woodford McClellan
Professor of History
University of Virginia, seeking reunification with Soviet wife since 1974
Vyacheslav Nepomnyashchy
Fiance of American Citizen Catharine Theimer
Catharine Theimer
Fiancee of Soviet Citizen Vyacheslav Nepomnyashchy
Jan Benes
Czechoslovakia-born writer seeking reunification with children still in Czechoslovakia
Anna Faltus
Liason Officer
Czechoslovak National Council of America
Valerie Secu
Chairman
American-Romania Committee for Family Reunion
Mariana Blum
U.S. resident seeking reunification with parents in Romania
Clive Barnes
Dance and drama critic
New York Times
Eugene Gold
Brooklyn District Attorny; Chairman
National Conference on Soviet Jewry
Esther Lazaris
Israeli citizen, wife of long-standing refusenik Vladimir Lazaris of Moscow, seeking reunification with her husband
Irene Manekofsky
Vice-President and Washington Representative; President
The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews; Washington Committee for Soviet Jews
Viktor Aranovich
Soviet emigrant, seeking reunification with his brother, brother's family and mother
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