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Climaxing a two-day symposium at Harvard on the medical consequences of a nuclear attack on Boston, American physicians yesterday urged President Carter and Soviet Chairman Leonid I. Brezhnev to reject nuclear warfare as a rational possibility and to ban the use of nuclear weapons...
...caution against exaggerating the importance of the crisis, and what he later called "war hysteria." Said he: "This is not the first abuse of Soviet power, nor will it be the last ... It is less than a year since the Vienna summit when President Carter kissed President Brezhnev on the cheek. We cannot afford a foreign policy based on the pangs of unrequited love." Kennedy cautioned against taking action in the Persian Gulf without the support of our allies. He warned against haste in adding new nuclear weaponry like the MX missile to the U.S. arsenal. He opposed registration...
...America's "economic and political blackmail" of the U.S.S.R. stemmed from Carter's desperate bid for reelection. "In order to score points as a presidential candidate, Carter decided to distract American attention from domestic problems by creating international tensions," charged Zamyatin, who is one of President Leonid Brezhnev's chief foreign policy advisers...
Deputy Chief Prosecutor Alexander Rekunkov read Sakharov a decree issued by President Leonid Brezhnev; it stripped Sakharov of all the honors he had been awarded as the father of 1 Soviet hydrogen bomb, including three orders of Hero of Socialist Labor, the U.S.S.R.'s highest civilian decoration. A stickler for legality, Sakharov coolly complained that Brezhnev's signature on the document had been typed and not handwritten Sakharov was told that he would be exiled to the city of Gorky (formerly Nizhni Novgorod) for "subversive activities," and then was allowed to phone his wife. Given two hours, Yelena...
...expressed outrage at the treatment of Sakharov-as did a number of Communist leaders. The White House said that the Soviet action was "a blow to the aspiration of all mankind to establish respect for human rights." Italy's President Alessandro Pertini sent a cable of protest to Brezhnev. The West German government demanded that the Sakharovs be allowed to return to Moscow. France's president of the National Assembly, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, cut short his official visit to the Soviet Union and returned to Paris in indignation over the exile. "As a guest of the Soviet authorities...