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...have been compared with Andrei Sakharov. What is it about the higher sciences, in your case astrophysics, that leads some people to passionate advocacy of human rights...
Zhelev says he wants a "strong, competent government"; observers believe that will mean an administration of technocrats drawn from both the Socialists and the U.D.F. The new Prime Minister is likely to be Socialist leader Andrei Lukanov, 52, one of the party's leading reformers. Urbane and articulate, Lukanov was Prime Minister under Mladenov and stayed on as the party leader when Mladenov was forced out. Lukanov has the support of many opposition leaders because of his grasp of economic issues and generally evenhanded approach to political problems. He favors a government of national unity, arguing that broad consensus will...
...Andrei Sakharov...
Picture yourself seated in the garden of an elegant country dacha in an exclusive suburb of Moscow. You sip tea while you admire the golden hues of the lingering Russian sunset. Seated across from you, physicist Andrei Sakharov talks plainly about his life...
Brezhnev had no desire to speak to his former boss. So he instructed his first deputy in the Central Committee, Andrei Kirilenko, a rude and high- handed man, to summon Khrushchev and get him to drop the memoirs. Arvid Pelshe, the chief of the party Control Commission, attended to add pressure; everyone knew the Control Commission wasn't to be trifled with...