Word: sakharovs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night of Dec. 14, 1989, Andrei Sakharov returned to his Moscow apartment from a heated meeting of radical parliamentarians where he had called for the formation of an alternative party to oppose the Communists, lay down for a nap and never awoke. He was 68 when a heart attack felled him. He had been a free man for less than three years...
FOOTNOTE: *Alone Together is the title of Elena Bonner's 1986 account of her life in exile with Sakharov...
...Sakharov was able to continue his cat-and-mouse game with the authorities through the 1970s at least partly because of his world stature as a human rights activist and because his arrest would have strained Soviet-U.S. relations. But with the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, those relations deteriorated catastrophically, and the state soon moved against Sakharov...
...Tuesday, the day the theoretical-physics seminar met at FIAN ((the physics institute where Sakharov still worked)). I followed my customary routine, ordering a car from the academy's motor pool and leaving home at 1:30. At the Krasnokholmsky Bridge, a traffic-patrol car forced us to stop. From the front seat I saw two men get in the rear, flashing red IDs marked MVD ((for Interior Ministry)). They were actually...
...view of A.D. Sakharov's systematic actions, which discredit him as a recipient of State awards, and in response to many suggestions made by the Soviet public, the Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet has decided to deprive Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov of the title Hero of Socialist Labor and all his State awards...