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Wiesel's 30 books have ranged from biblical studies to an examination of the plight of Soviet Jews. Indeed, last week he exhorted Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to allow five Soviet Jews, as well as Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, to emigrate, and this week he is traveling to Moscow to help organize a conference on non-Jewish victims of Nazism. Wiesel has also worked to help Cambodian refugees, the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua and starving children in Africa...
...Sakharov's wife?" one of the women asked...
...first main charge involved the press conference I gave on Oct. 2, 1975, in Florence, to discuss the Italian publication of Sakharov's My Country and the World. I was asked to talk about women in political camps. I didn't speak about the human rights activists who were in the camp, but about Maria Semyonova. This woman, a member of the True Orthodox Church, had spent almost her entire life in camps. I referred to her "tragic fate." While I was not speaking of just or unjust sentencing or anything else about the verdicts, I did use the word...
...condition by giving him digitalis, which had a bad effect on him. I told them that giving him that medication was the only thing they did that was not premeditated, that they had simply lost their heads out of fear of the KGB. Everything else they were doing to Sakharov was a crime...
...soon as it was widely known in the fall of 1981 that Andrei Sakharov and I were planning a hunger strike to get my daughter-in-law an exit visa, the car was stolen. When we were on the hunger strike and not leaving the house because we were afraid of being grabbed on the street and forcibly hospitalized, the car was suddenly found. The state traffic police kept calling us to come for it. We ignored them. But at last, unable to lure us out of the house with the prospect of getting our car back, they simply broke...