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...Oppenehimer wrote, "At last physics has known sin. "This realization of a scientist's responsibility to consider the human consequences of his work has gradually become inescapable for modern physicists since 1945. No other scientist has displayed a more acute realization of his duty to the world than Andrei Sakharov, a member of the group which developed the Russian nuclear bomb in 1948, and a prominent dissident and human rights activist since the mid-1960s...
...burst into the international spotlight at age 27 by winning the 1951 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, Kogan's flawless but aloof technique could on occasion produce bloodless interpretations. A Jew who denied that Moscow was guilty of anti-Semitic discrimination, he publicly criticized dissidents like Andrei Sakharov...
According to former KGB Agent Vladimir Sakharov, who defected to the U.S. in 1972, Andropov has a 5½-room apartment in Moscow that is comfortable but not elegant. When Sakharov was invited to visit by Andropov's son in the mid-1960s, the apartment's outstanding features were a stereo system, a sofa and a cabinet of highly polished wood, gifts to Andropov from the late Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito...
...Sakharov was amazed at Andropov's collection of books and records, which showed "a strange attraction for Western culture," and not necessarily for the best it has to offer. In literature, his taste ran to Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, and in music, to Chubby Checker, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee and Bob Eberly...
...month the Kremlin expelled Newsweek Bureau Chief Andrew Nagorski, accusing him of unethical journalistic practices. The Soviets arrested several members of an unauthorized "peace group" that was founded in June to press for better relations with the U.S. And last week Yelena Bonner, the wife of dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, announced that "cruel persecution" had finally destroyed the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, an organization set up to monitor the Soviet Union's compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act signed by 35 nations...