Word: keldysh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd, estimated at over 150, stood in a cold drizzle to hear the speeches which were prompted by the Harvard visit of the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Dr. Mstislav V. Keldysh...
...While Dr. Keldysh is traveling from banquet to banquet in the United States, many of his Jewish Soviet in the Soviet Union are harrassed, arrested and jailed for their simple requests to leave the country." Elliott Abrams, a Law student and one of the rally's organizers, said yesterday...
...Committee Against Exit Fees for Professionals in the Soviet Union voted at a meeting last night to present a petition to Dr. Mestislav Keldysh, the Academy president, and other noted Soviet scientists who are meeting with Harvard and MIT physics professors. The Committee has accumulated 3000 signatures from the Harvard community which they will present at the demonstration...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, himself a signer of the petition, has arranged for two Harvard students and two MIT students to directly confront Keldysh over the Soviet exit policy...
Medvedev was released only after his twin brother, Roy, an eminent historian, mobilized a protest by a group of internationally renowned writers and scientists, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Physicists Andrei Sakharov and Pyotr Kapitsa, and Mstislav Keldysh, president of the Academy of Sciences. Last summer, in an attempt to hush up the embarrassing affair, the KGB (Soviet secret police) promised the Medvedevs that they would "close the case" and asked for assurances that the brothers would not write about what had happened. Roy Medvedev agreed, on the condition that there be no more "psychiatric blackmail...