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mr MORE FREE- GARTER GETS CREDIT NEW YOKE CAP) More than one tuOioo peo- pie enjoyed more political and civil freedoms in 1977 than the year before as an -indirect result of President Carter's human rights private study say Bat Freedom House, a New Yort -based organiza-tien begun in 1952. concluded in its annual study oT governments that only 35 percent of the world's IS countries and 58 can be labeled free. can leaders prorided.aa unusually favorable envt-ronment for freedom." The survey uses 21 -criteria to assess all nation and territories, -chiding freedom of news media from political, economic and other controls or harassment, and the --right of citizens towartid--'pate in the choice of political leaders, parties and government policies. The 1977 survey' was Party goveremenl and la-used by the State Depart- stalled Morarji Desai as ment la reporting to Con- Minister. --gress on the status of Freedom House said foe human-rights la each of election restored political -the 82 countries currently rights to 8 a milhm per-, receiving U.S.

security as-. vsons in the country and the Indian press was freed The most significant im- after eight yean of gov provemeol of the eminent wntroL Freedom-House-said. Cobb trie t-Hr here -came in India, where personal freedoms de-March elections ousted' included South Indira Gandhi's Congress Africa, Jamaica, Angola, Argentina. Burma rand Ethiopia. The study also said human rights dimin--i ished in the Soviet Union, Rumania.

Chechoslovakia: and East Germany while, improved Poland I Yugoslavia: In sjfpecial analysis of the press Hod broadcast Leonard R. Suss-man. Freedom Houses executive said that despite the generally improvrf dimate for per sonal liberty, press dom threats. rHe-said a broad new campaign for govenment intervention in. the worlds news Qow is in preparation, generated by4he United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultured-Organization in its projected New International Information Order.

4. hours only SALE ENDS FRIDAY. DECEMBER HURRY, SOME QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED! ij GAINS were made in 26 nations particularly India and Spain reversing a four-year trend, the study showed. Personal freedoms declined in nine countries with a combined population of mS 874.3' million -persons about percent of the world population of 4.0 billion reside in partially free nations. The significant gains coincided with President Carter's human rights initiatives, said Jon Rich-ardfon president of Freedom House.

While only some expanded rights are directly due to U.S. policies, the great attention paid human rights by Ameri- Argentina the Svorst on WASHINGTON (AP) -Argentina, with an estimated 18,000 political prisoners, is Latin America's most flagrant violator of human rights, the privately funded Council on Hemispheric Affairs reported Thursday. In a year-end assessment, the non-profit research organization said Argentina has more innocent victims in its jails than the rest of Latin America combined. The council said Argentina and Uruguay head the list as violators of human rights in the region kill-1 ing. abducting and systematically torturing political dissidents despite International condemnations A CMncil spokesman said the .18,000 figure was compiled from many sources, including Argentinas, military.

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