Word: pavel
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Sergio Bitar, a native of Chile, is now a fellow at Harvard's Institute for International Development. John Karefa-Smart left Sierra Leone to become a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. Pavel Litvmov has been polishing his English at Manhattanville College in Purchase. N.Y., so he can resume the study of physics that he had to abandon in the Soviet Union. These men have one trait in common--all were political prisoners in their native countries, and all were aided by an organization known as Amnesty International...
Political imprisonment is reportedly far more widespread in the Soviet Union, where the KGB has reputedly used drugs and psychological torture on dissidents. Pavel Litvinov, a well-known physicist, spent several months in Siberia for his political beliefs untils he came to this country in March 1974. Lit-vinov hopes to have improved his English by next year to the point where he will be able to resume his research at Manhattanville College...
...appeared in the West, but it will break this week in the latest issue of A Chronicle of Human Rights in the USSR, a bimonthly magazine published in Manhattan. Since its founding two years ago last month, the little Chronicle, which is edited by Valery Chalidze and Pavel Litvinov, a pair of liberal Soviet exiles now living in the U.S., has become one of the most carefully read and respected Russian journals anywhere...
...Advocacy. Because the Voice has always been a lifeline for dissidents in Communist countries, many apparently now feel let down. A prominent Yugoslav writer recently said: "The VGA is jamming itself-apparently out of some misguided spirit of detente." Pavel Litvinov, a Soviet intellectual now in exile in the U.S., gave a speech to Voice employees in the U.S.S.R. division in which he said: "The quality of your broadcasts to my country has declined 500% in the last few years." Astonishingly, the audience burst into applause...
After failing at least three times in attempts to complete a Skylab-type orbital mission, the Russians were not about to take any unnecessary risks in their latest effort. As Cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin, both 44, whirled around the earth aboard their Salyut 3 space station, ground control sternly refused to let them listen to the semifinal match between Poland and Brazil in the World Cup championship. The excitement, the controllers feared, might stir up the cosmonauts' pulse beats and blood pressure. But after a while, Soccer Nut Popovich could bear the suspense no longer. "How did they...