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Outraged by what they describe as a "perfect mockery of justice," a group of Harvard Law School professors signed a petition sent last week to Moscow and the Soviet Embassy in Washington, denouncing the conviction of Soviet physicist Yuri Orlov who was found guilty last week in Moscow of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda...
...Harvard Physics professors have cancelled upcoming trips to the Soviet Union in protest of last week's trial and sentencing of Yuri F. Orlov, a Soviet physicist and critic of Soviet human rights policies...
...Marmottan in Paris, all of them images from the garden. We see, lined up, the different versions of each motif that Monet so obsessively worked at, in every possible variation of light, laboring to divide nuances into further nuances and stabilize their intervals with the devotion of a particle physicist: the poplars, the haystacks, the rose-twined tunnel of the arbor leading to his house, the water. To reproduce their subtleties is impossible; to recollect the differences of tone between one painting and another, apparently identical, defeats the most trained visual memory. But the show's organizers, Art Historians...
...award is named after Leo Szilard, a renowned physicist who "very early realized the public policy implications of science," Sheahen said...
...stepped-up persecution of human rights activists in the U.S.S.R. The KGB's main target: small groups of dissidents who monitor Soviet compliance with the Helsinki agreements on human rights. In the past 14 months 22 members of these groups have been arrested. Among the most notable are Physicist Yuri Orlov and Writer Alexander Ginzburg. who are charged with "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Computer Specialist Anatoli Shcharansky is accused of treason...