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Vladimir Bukovskii, the dissident Soviet biologist released after years in and out of prison and psychiatric hospitals, answers questions from Vera Rich
Colin Norman reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the recommendations of a citizens committee established last year to look at genetic manipulation experiments