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...leader of the Russian Democratic Movement was allowed to tour U.S. universities this month. He is Physicist Valery Chalidze, 34, who called for amnesty for all Soviet political prisoners in a speech at Washington's Georgetown University last week. Other leading Russian intellectuals and artists, including Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and Physicist Andrei Sakharov, have made similar appeals. Determined to return to Russia, where he is regarded by the KGB as a dangerous troublemaker, Chalidze told TIME: "Even if the Soviet authorities will only let people out for purposes of propaganda, it is still a victory in the struggle...
...Harvard professors did not stand alone in their criticism of Soviet policies. Members of the Harvard community organized two pickets this week to protest a visit by Dr. Mstislav V. Keldysh president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences...
...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...
...protege whom Lenny first heard in 1960 and later hired as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Married to a former Tokyo model named Vera, and the father of a baby girl born in December, Ozawa is as hip as can be. At a recent recital by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Ozawa, still sporting his familiar Beatle hairdo, wore a red turtleneck and carried a leather purse on a longish strap. Is Boston ready for this...
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...