ABC Evening News for Monday, Jul 10, 1978
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(Studio) Comment is on limits of outside protest against USSR trials of dissidents Shcharansky and Ginzburg. History of repression in USSR described, beginning with Lenin's forceful dissolving of freely elected assembly, in which Bolsheviks lost, in 1917. Effects of behind-the-scenes pressure on Sovs. outlined; Solzhenitsyn's release and that of more Jews noted.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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