Word: sakharovs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When A.P. Correspondent George Krimsky flew out of Moscow last week, expelled on charges of spying for the CIA, TIME Bureau Chief Marsh Clark was among those at the airport to see him off. So was the U.S.S.R.'s leading political gadfly, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, whom Clark had just finished interviewing for this week's cover story. Says Clark: "The real reason for Krimsky's expulsion was his coverage of the dissidents." That explains why reporting on men like Sakharov is such a complex and at times hazardous affair. Clark adds: "Correspondents and KGB agents are well...
Staff Writer Patricia Blake, who wrote the story, is familiar with dissidence. A lifelong student of Russian literature and politics, she was the author of our cover story on the most famous dissenter of all, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Feb. 25, 1974). "I found what Sakharov told Marsh Clark particularly moving," she says. "He breathes compassion...
...tiny Moscow apartment, a tall, stooped man of 55 bundled himself into his worn overcoat and ratty fur hat, walked down seven flights of stairs and made his way through a noontime snowstorm to a public phone booth. It was by now a familiar routine for Andrei Sakharov, foremost builder of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Russian human rights movement. On that day, a friend had brought a report of yet another arrest, and it was Sakharov's self-imposed duty to inform Western journalists, who would tell...
Among Russian dissidents in Moscow, jubilation over the Carter Administration's statements was tempered by Ginzburg's arrest. Still, the activists were grateful for the U.S. support of Sakharov, whom most dissidents regard as "the captain of our ship." Upon hearing of the State Department admonitions on foreign short-wave radio, "we nearly cried with relief," Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky told TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark last week. "It was what we were waiting for. We think it has saved Sakharov; we're convinced they won't touch...
...trade treaty with Czechoslovakia, and Peking's People's Daily lauded the Czechoslovak people's "unflinching battle for independence." Groups of dissidents in Poland and Hungary expressed solidarity with the beleaguered chartists, and from the Soviet Union came a protest by the irrepressible Sakharov...