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...ought to get a new name once the proposed treaty of confederation among the 15 constituent republics of the U.S.S.R. is approved. Three suggestions: Union of Sovereign Socialist States (U.S.S.S.), put forth by none other than Mikhail Gorbachev; Union of Euro-Asian Republics, a coinage of the late Andrei Sakharov; and Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics, a nomination from the floor. That, of course, would retain both the word Soviet and the initials U.S.S.R. (or, in the Russian language and Cyrillic alphabet, C.C.C.P.). If none of them are judged suitable, there is always the Union of Squabbling Socialist Republics...
...past 45 years, he pointed out, no one has been killed, except by accident, in conflict between rich industrial countries. In poor nations of the world, millions of people have died in struggles during those years. "Out of poverty has come conflict." Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, stated the objectivists' case in an irritable burst: "Moral concepts are lovely, but the key is governing these things...
...have been compared with Andrei Sakharov. What is it about the higher sciences, in your case astrophysics, that leads some people to passionate advocacy of human rights...
During his years of internal exile in Gorky, the silence of his Soviet colleagues disappointed him. His powerful friends would have suffered no personal risk by publicly announcing their support for the man who so often put himself in danger for prisoners of conscience, but they remained silent anyway. Sakharov does not appear bitter at this desertion, but disappointed in the cowardice of his countrymen...
...which the press proclaims there are no heroes left, citing athletes who take drugs, corrupt politicians, and the superficiality of pop figures created by publicity agents, the powerful figure of Sakharov exists as a promise that our time can still produce heroes. He stands as a prophet who preached of a more peaceful world to men who preferred war. With the barriers between political blocs just now tumbling, we are finally beginning to move on the path he cleared for the rest...