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...Soviets dig in, Mitterrand chides them about Sakharov...
Dershowitz cited the example of the University of Pennsylvania, which broke with its longstanding tradition of not awarding honoraries in absentia to offer an award this year. to Sakharov, who is reportedly nearing death and may have already succumbed to the effects of a prolonged hunger strike...
...Angeles Olympics. It has all invitations to return to the bargaining tables in Gene preferring to deploy new weapons in Europe and to send additional to lurk near U.S. shores. The display abroad has been by a tightening of control at including efforts to silence Nobel Prize Recipient Andrei Sakharov The Kremlin has more than matched its deeds with angry, at times hysterical, A veritable Niagara of insults and threats continues to flow from the pages of Pravda and the tickers of TASS. The Reagan Administration is accused of plotting "covert subversive activities and terrorism," engaging in a "campaign...
...creations in such recent films as Gorky Park and Moscow on the Hudson. Its aspirations to realism are frequently betrayed by melodramatics. KGB agents seem to lurk behind every door, like B-movie heavies. But when a witness at a political trial surreptitiously slips a sheaf of documents to Sakharov just before taking the stand, the action is miraculously unseen by any of the guards in the crowded courtroom...
...this may matter little in a film whose interest transcends its artistic shortcomings. Sakharov brings the story of a courageous man to an audience that may know little of him beyond a few sentences from Dan Rather on the evening news. (An update to be inserted at the end of the telecast will fill viewers in on the latest developments.) The film has already been seen on Dutch TV, and will be shown in several other European countries. Sakharov probably should be compared, not to such other TV biographical epics as George Washington or Kennedy, but to those social-problem...