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...DIED. Pyotr Kapitsa, 89, Nobel-prizewinning Soviet physicist who made major discoveries in magnetism and low-temperature and plasma physics but who was placed under house arrest in the last years of the Stalin era for refusing to conduct nuclear weapons research; in Moscow. He spent much of his early career at England's Cambridge University, until Stalin in 1934 pressured him into staying home by creating Moscow's Institute of Physical Problems, which Kapitsa headed until 1946 and then from his post-Stalin rehabilitation in 1955 until his death...
Brezhnev rites suggests, Andropov could conceivably fill as many as four seats with his own supporters. He may enlist some "younger" recruits among the nine nonvoting members of the Politburo, including Heavy Industry Specialist Vladimir Dolgikh, 57, and Cultural Watchdog Pyotr Demichev...
Back in June 1978 the seven crashed past Soviet guards and into the U.S. embassy, seeking to go to the U.S. Pyotr Vashchenko, now 55, Augustina, and their three daughters, Lidiya, Lyubov, 29, and Liliya, 24, along with Fellow Believers Mariya Chmykhalov, 59, and her son Timofei, 19, had traveled 2,000 miles by rail from the Siberian town of Cherno-gorsk. Thwarted by Soviet intransigence since then, the dispirited Augustina and Lidiya have now stopped eating in a desperate bid to win world attention and shame the Soviets into relenting...
Their plan was inspired by Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov's successful hunger strike late last year. Augustina started taking only juice and water on Dec 25, despite the opposition of Pyotr and the Christian teaching against suicide. Lidiya joined her three days later. When Historian Kent Hill of Seattle Pacific University flew to Moscow, Lidiya told him, "Here I am with no end in sight. I can't bear it. If I can't have a normal life, I'd sooner...
...January 1963, while Pyotr was in prison, Augustina was among 32 church members who won headlines around the world by barging into the U.S. embassy and begging for asylum. They left when the Soviets promised better treatment. Instead, Pyotr and Augustina lost their home and jobs, Pyotr was confined temporarily to a psychiatric hospital, and both went to prison for several years...