Word: levich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union has apparently agreed to permit the emigration of Benjamin Levich, a world-renowned electrochemist who is being offered a teaching post at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...list of 18 Soviet families who may receive permission to emigrate to the United States or Israel, released by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) this week, includes the names of Levich and his wife Tanya as well as lesser-known Soviet "refuseniks...
...statement released yesterday by Jerome B. Wiesner, MIT president, said MIT has offered Levich a visiting faculty appointment. But a spokesman for Wiesner said yesterday MIT has not talked to Levich directly about the appointment. "We don't yet know what his plans are," he said...
...twelve years last May for having founded the first Helsinki Watch Committee. Two of the Soviet Union's best-known "refuseniks," who have been denied visas to Israel, came to show their sympathy for Shcharansky. They were Alexander Lerner, the former head of a cybernetics institute, and Veniamin Levich, one of the world's leading physical chemists. Both men were fired from their posts for seeking to emigrate to Israel. Near by stood Yelena Bonner Sakharov, one of the few members of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee who have not been arrested or deported, and her husband Andrei Sakharov...
...threat to détente. In what can only be construed as a symbolic gesture to mollify U.S. opinion, they released Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, 67, who had been placed in a psychiatric clinic for political crimes five years ago. At the same time, Benjamin Levich, a Jew and a leading Soviet chemist, was told that next year he would receive his long-sought permission to emigrate to Israel. His two sons, both of whom had been harassed by authorities because of their own requests to leave the country, were told they could go before the end of this year...