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...Kremlin to dismiss domestic critics of the regime as foreign agents even as the state further terrorizes the dwindling band of dissidents. At the same time, a massive Soviet press campaign was mounted against the two towering spiritual leaders of Russia's "democratic movement," Physicist Andrei Sakharov and Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn. With an evident absence of spontaneity, hundreds of indignant letter writers spewed forth abuse against the two intellectuals in the pages of Pravda, Izvestia and other official newspapers. In part, the list of Sakharov's and Solzhenitsyn's accusers read like an "S. Hurok presents" concert...
Legal Action. This highly orchestrated campaign is obviously calculated to prepare public opinion for legal action against Sakharov, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, and Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prizewinning author. Just as obviously, bold recent statements by both men to foreign journalists have strained the Kremlin's tolerance close to the breaking point...
Speaking of East-West détente at a Moscow press conference last month, Sakharov warned that "rapprochement without democratization is very dangerous. It might lead to very grave consequences inside our country and contaminate the whole world with an antidemocratic character." This was strong criticism indeed of Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev's policy of seeking economic cooperation abroad while putting down dissent at home. Sakharov compounded his offense by recommending one action that the U.S. Congress could take to open Soviet doors -adopting the Jackson Amendment, which would bar most-favored-nation economic status to countries restricting emigration...
...Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who helped to develop the Russian hydrogen bomb, last week disclosed that he had been officially warned not to make contact with foreign journalists. In previous interviews with Western reporters, Sakharov has made several appeals in behalf of political prisoners. After he made the warning public, Sakharov was denounced by 40 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, to which he belongs. The only surprise in the denunciation was the fact that it was signed by so few of the academy's 248 members, indicating that if they could not defend Sakharov, most of the scientists...
...businessmen venture into Moscow to explore trade possibilities, they frequently have in mind a simple machines-for-minerals deal−their technology in return for Siberian natural gas, for example. Soviet leaders, who have been criticized at home for planning to turn Russia into what dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov once termed a "raw-material supply appendage" for the West, are extremely sensitive about such proposals. They are far more receptive to plans that allow the Soviets to pay for the U.S. technology they want with the very goods that will be produced by using that technology. Occidental Petroleum Chairman Armand...