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...meeting of the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin, who was handling the Baikal project, asked Mstislav Keldysh, president of the Academy of Sciences, "What does the academy recommend? If the safeguards aren't reliable, we'll stop construction." Keldysh quoted a report that the water-purification system and other safeguards were completely reliable. He may have been acting in good faith. Still, my feeling is that his stand was greatly influenced by the academy's dependence on the bureaucratic machine, and that he was predisposed to respect the wishes of this machine and to ignore the warnings...
...accepted anyway, and you'd just be fired." Alexei's story is not unusual. Anti-Semitic discrimination in university admissions is part of a deliberate policy of squeezing Jews out of the country's intellectual establishment. The Central Committee is said to have asked Mstislav Keldysh, then president of the Academy of Sciences, when its Jewish membership would fall to zero. It would take about 20 years to solve the "problem," he replied. I must note that Keldysh did not reduce the number of Jews in the institutes he directed and was not anti-Semitic...
DIED. Mstislav Keldysh, 67, prominent Russian mathematician who helped shape his country's space program; in Moscow. His own research centered on rocketry and spacecraft, but as chief of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1961-75, Keldysh oversaw a national network of scientific projects and organizations. His working knowledge of English helped him maintain contacts with many Western scientists, and he professed a desire for Soviet-American cooperation in space research...
...barrage of anti-Sakharov articles has been appearing in Soviet journals, the first since early September. And there was recently a Soviet counter to a warning issued by the U.S. Academy of Sciences that any punishment of Sakharov would endanger Soviet-American scientific cooperation. Sakharov, charged Mstyslav Keldysh, president of the Soviet Academy, is "politically blind...
Four Harvard professors joined students at a rally the following day to continue the protest against Keldysh and the alleged anti-Jewish decree. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, criticized the head tax decree as a "ransom" educated persons must pay so they can emigrate...