An article in the February 2 edition of the New York Times provides an excruciating corroboration of Shcharanskys assessment. The report profiles Serafim Yevsyukov. a former airline navigator who Soviet authorities seized last July and then confined to a mental hospital. When the new "patient" inquired why he had been judged insane. the doctors cited his quiet protests of the deportation of his son to a Siberian labor camp. The former navigator subsequently endured a hospitalization that featured lighting during sleep periods. no exercise of any kind. and daily injections of tranquilizers that prevented rest. Having been released last month from the socalled hospital. he now thinks of the screaming mental patients he lived with for 8 months. He also thinks of his son. who is still irmprisoned in Siberia for his attempts to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Unfortunately. a trip outside Moscow only serves to confirm the colder picture of General Secretary Gorbachev. According to the Washington Times.
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