World Notes DISSIDENTS

The Soviet Union's emigration laws are among the tightest in the world, but authorities will readily bend the rules when it suits them. Last week they did just that to rid themselves of a nemesis who had attracted worldwide attention: Psychiatrist Anatoli Koryagin, who was sentenced to seven years in labor camps after protesting the practice of locking up political dissidents in mental hospitals and often dosing them with mind-altering drugs.

With his wife and three children, including a son who had been imprisoned for unrelated dissident activities, Koryagin boarded a jet last week and flew to Switzerland. The physician, who was released from detention only last February, said on reaching Zurich that he agreed to leave his homeland because he feared being subjected to more "Bolshevik terror." What about Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost? Said Koryagin: "Practically nothing has changed. We were still seen as political criminals. The 'opening up' is only words."