Soviet psychiatric textbooks still list "sluggish schizophrenia"-described as an obsessive desire to "seek social justice"-as a form of chronic mental illness. The Ministry of Internal Affairs. not the Ministry of Health. continues to administer the 18 infamous special psychiatric hospitals. It was therefore not an accident that shortly before Mr. Titovs release. officials of Soviet state securitythe KGBvisited him in his hospital quarters and urged him to recant his opinions. Remarkably. Mr. Titovs tormentors released him on the condition that he emigrate immediately to Israeldespite the fact that he is not Jewish and that tens of thousands of Soviet Jews who do wish to depart for Israel cannot do so. In this context. Mr.
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