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Brezhnev gave this interpretation some credence last week by delivering a particularly bellicose speech at a party meeting in Warsaw. In the very week that Andrei Sakharov was being prevented from going to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, the Soviet leader attacked Western critics who complain that Moscow has not been living up to the promises to expand personal freedoms that it made at the Helsinki Conference on European Cooperation and Security. He accused "some influential circles in the West" of waging "campaigns of misinformation, all sorts of pinpricks to ... poison the situation." Brezhnev charged that critics were...
...disgrace to the Soviet Union," a plainclothes security policeman told Andrei Sakharov last week as he barred the Russian nuclear physicist from attending the trial of a fellow dissident in Lithuania. At almost the same moment, at Oslo University, the Nobel Prize for Peace was given to Sakharov in absentia. He was the first Russian to be so honored (13 Russians have won prizes in the sciences and literature). Sakharov was prevented by the Kremlin from traveling to Oslo, ostensibly for "security" reasons...
Berlinguer has led the party in a series of other autonomous stands, notably a cautious defense of Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov and a plea to the regimes of Eastern Europe to liberalize. Obviously, Italy's unorthodox approach to Communism was not conducive to smooth negotiations for a Communist summit...
Knut Hamsun was a hero to his fellow Norwegians and a novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. But in the '30s, he espoused Nazism, and when the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, he collaborated with them, later even wrote a glowing obituary of Hitler. After the war, he scarcely deigned to offer any explanation, nor would he acknowledge the slightest regret...
...other hand, the research by the Harvard team basically adds to reseaach done by a number of other teams at the National Institute of Health and several universities. Bacterial genes were chemically synthesized in 1973 by an MIT team led by Har Gobind Khorana; Nobel Prize Winners Dr. Howard Temin at the University of Wisconsin and David Baltimore at MIT first discovered the enzyme--reverse transcriptase--that was a keystone in the Harvard research; and three research groups--including one led by Baltimore--simultaneously produced one of DNA's two strands...