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...become almost embarrassingly routine for Soviet officials to attack Andrei Sakharov for criticizing Russian repression. Recently the Soviet physicist changed his target to the Middle East war and, true to form, he ran into trouble for his views. This time, however, he did not get the verbal abuse he receives so often in the Soviet press, but rather 75 minutes of terror at the hands of two Arab activists...
...brief interview with a Lebanese journalist, Sakharov had called on the Communist powers not to "interfere" in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and had urged the West to "take retaliatory measures" if "one-sided" Soviet intervention continued. Sakharov's remarks fell far short of a pro-Israeli position, but they were still not what the Arabs wanted to hear...
This became clear last week when two men, describing themselves as members of the Black September terrorist organization, personally delivered a stern warning to Sakharov at his Moscow apartment. The two demanded Sakharov's written opinion of the Middle East conflict and ominously informed him: "We'll report your views back to headquarters, and they'll decide what to do with you." The conversation, Sakharov later recounted to friends, got more tense as time went on. At one point, one of the men "jumped like a tiger" to the telephone, where Mrs. Sakharov was standing, and hastily...
...support and applaud the nomination of Academician Andrei Sakharov for the Nobel Prize for Peace, as proposed by my friend Alexander Solzhenitsyn [Sept...
Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov are the conscience of that part of mankind that is in slavery. They ceaselessly call upon the Soviet government to end its persecutions, and to democratize the regime. Each in his own way addresses himself to the world, and their words resound with concern for the future of humanity. Thus, they are attempting to halt the infernal cycle of mutual hatred and military adventures. Sakharov, who is leading this heroic battle, is supremely worthy of the Nobel Prize...