Word: sakharovs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK--Students at Columbia University who are circulating a petition on several college campuses demanding recognition of human rights in the Soviet Union yesterday attempted unsuccessfully to call Soviet dissident Anderi D. Sakharov...
John P. Kapiloff, a Columbia sophomore who is organizing the student effort, yesterday said the Soviet operators told students Sakharov's line was busy. When the U.S. operator interrupted the call, the Soviet operators said the lines at both of Sakharov's residences have been disconnected...
...third time in one night, McCarthy was responding to a question about the kind of job he thought Carter was doing. Then someone asked about Idi Amin; someone else about Carter's letter to Sakharov. The same kinds of questions it seems everybody asks politicians these days. I suppose these are the only kinds of questions people are concerned about these days...
...loves history and broad views. Trudeau conceded that the two men differed in their approach to human rights, to the Soviet dissidents. Trudeau felt the need to keep his voice lower. He hinted that maybe Carter had been a bit surprised at the response to his letter to Andrei Sakharov. But there was also a touch of admiration for a President who based important actions on the simple criterion of "what was right...
...wasn't willing to leave it at that. In black block letters three inches high, it proclaimed, LARRY FLYNT: AMERICAN DISSIDENT. This label was enough to move the Times to its own editorial dissent. Dissident has an honored meaning these days, and belongs to those who, like Andrei Sakharov, at risk to their own freedom boldly challenge the Soviet Union to live up to its constitution. Flynt himself seems to have had a better sense of proportion about his role-and a good job description of it-in the name he gave his magazine...