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...unlikelihood of Kremlin powers reversing their decision to place the prominent physicist and dissident in internal exile didn't deter the Physics Department from inviting Sakharov to spend a semester here as a Loeb Lecturer...
Every Tuesday for the past decade, the Soviet Academy of Sciences had dispatched an official car to pick up Physicist Andrei Sakharov and take him to one of the academy's weekly seminars. Last week, as his Volga sedan turned into Leninsky Prospekt toward the imposing 19th century academy building, uniformed militiamen halted the automobile, seized Sakharov and hustled him to the Moscow prosecutor's office. The 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner was under arrest, as the Kremlin at long last moved to silence the Soviet Union's most celebrated dissident...
Sakharov thus becomes the first well-known human casualty of the cold war that has erupted between Moscow and Washington since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He had dared to speak out openly against his country's coup in Kabul. Always deeply fearful of thermonuclear war, the physicist had called upon the United Nations and the U.S.S.R. to arrange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. In a statement to foreign journalists, Sakharov said: "The situation is so tragic, dramatic and dangerous that we must all concentrate on how to prevent a chain reaction that could have unpredictable...
...exiled to Gorky is a little like being sent to Detroit; it ain't great but it ain't so bad." Still, the Soviet press attacks on Sakharov suggested that he might ultimately be charged with high treason. The government newspaper Izvestia, for example, claimed that the physicist had "repeatedly blurted out things that any state protects as an important secret" to U.S. diplomats and correspondents. Some Soviet officials, however, assured Western journalists that Sakharov would not stand trial and might even be able to continue his work as a scientist...
Calling the Nobel prize-winning physicist "a distinguished scientist who has dedicated his life for the past ten years to the cause of human freedom and justice," the cable urged the Soviets to "reconsider your harsh treatment against one of the world's greatest human beings...