Word: sakharovs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public letter writer, Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov: "There are tens of thousands of citizens in the Soviet Union ... who want to leave the country and who have been seeking to exercise that right for years and for decades at the cost of endless difficulty and humiliation. You know that prisons, labor camps and mental hospitals are full of people who have sought to exercise this legitimate right. I am appealing to the Congress of the United States to give its support to the Jackson amendment...
...Purgatory. Another blow to Soviet hopes came from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In a cable to the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the American group warned that "harassment or detention of Sakharov will have severe effects upon the relationships between the scientific communities of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and could vitiate our recent effort toward increasing scientific interchange and cooperation." In the opinion of one ranking U.S. Sovietologist, "The impact of the U.S. academy's position could be greater than the withholding of MFN. The whole Soviet scientific community could be put in purgatory...
...wake of these protests, the ten-day-long Soviet press campaign against Sakharov came to an abrupt halt. Instead, the Soviets set out to placate Western opinion. In an attempt to forestall possible disruption of the European Security Conference talks in Geneva this week, Izvestia published assurances that the meeting would take place "in a favorable psychological climate." Then, in a dramatic gesture of conciliation, the Soviets stopped jamming Voice of America, BBC and West German Russian-language broadcasts to the U.S.S.R. for the first time since 1968. This was a major concession to Western nations participating...
Meanwhile, Sakharov remained imperturbable. In yet another of his now famous forbidden interviews with foreign newsmen, he asked that the security conference consider the plight of dissidents being tortured in Soviet psychiatric hospitals. As for himself, he said: "I am no more afraid now than I have ever been. The world has its eyes on me. I think the world will save...
Solzhenitsyn nominated Sakharov for the peace prize in a surprisingly choleric and wide-ranging 3,000-word article for Oslo's daily Aftenposten. In it, he attacked Western liberals for what he termed their readiness to denounce oppression in rightist countries and their reluctance to criticize the Soviet Union. "Such profound hypocrisy is characteristic of American political life today," Solzhenitsyn continued, referring to Watergate. "Without in any way defending Nixon or the Republican Party, I am amazed at the affected, loudmouthed wrath of the Democrats. Wasn't American democracy full of mutual deception during previous election campaigns...