Word: sakharovs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Russians learned for the first time last week that Physicist Andrei Sakharov's application to visit Oslo to receive his Nobel Prize for Peace had been refused. An article in the Literary Gazette explained that he possessed "important state and military secrets." In fact, the father of Russia's H-bomb has not worked on classified military projects for nearly seven years...
...Sakharov has charged that the denial of a visa is a "flagrant violation" of the principles of last August's European Security Conference accord at Helsinki, where the U.S.S.R. agreed to "facilitate wider travel" for its citizens. Still, Sakharov was characteristically far more concerned with dissenters in prison than with his own plight. At the same tune, some brave Russians put themselves in jeopardy by supporting Sakharov with a petition denouncing the authorities for refusing to let him attend the Oslo award ceremony. It was signed by 72 people−and not all of them were known dissidents. According...
...Nyet"was the answer to Andrei Sakharov, 54, after he applied for an exit visa to Norway to claim his 1975 Nobel...
Peace Prize. The Soviet H-bomb pioneer was told he was barred from travel because of his knowledge of state secrets, but more probably it was because of his crusade for civil liberties in the U.S.S.R. Sakharov's distinguished predecessors, Authors Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago) and Alexander Solzhenitsyn (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich), were denied visas when they won Nobel Prizes for Literature...
...response to a question, Safonov declined to discuss the Soviet Union's refusal to allow physicist and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov to leave the country for the Nobel Prize award-giving ceremonies...