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...Karl Strauch, chairman of the Physics Department, said Sunday that no reply was ever received to that invitation or a follow-up mailed earlier this year, nor is it possible to determine if it ever reachec Gorky, the isolated city where Sakharov now lives...
...physicists are Yuri F. Orlov, arrested in 1978, and Andrei D. Sakharov, banished to internal exile in January 1980. Shortly after Sakharov was exiled, the Physics Department invited the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and human rights activist, who is known as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, to spend a semester here as a Loeb lecturer...
...dinner party given by the Association of American Publishers on the occasion of the last Moscow International Book Fair had been a literary highlight. It was 1979, and present at the plush Aragvi Restaurant in the Soviet capital was a pleiad of Russian writers and intellectuals, including Andrei Sakharov, the famed nuclear physicist, Dissident Author Anatoli Marchenko, Novelists Vasili Aksyonov and Vladimir Voinovich, and Critics Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova. But when the U.S. publishers got ready to give another such gala at the Moscow book fair this month, they knew the party would have to be smaller...
Since the last outing, the KGB has seized Sakharov and dispatched him to the city of Gorky, where he has been held incommunicado for the past 20 months. Marchenko has just been sentenced to ten years of hard labor and five of exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Aksyonov, Voinovich, Kopelev, Orlova and several others have been forced to live abroad. Even the erstwhile hosts have been made unwelcome. Four prominent American publishers were refused visas to the Soviet Union, and Random House Chairman Robert L. Bernstein was the target of an anti-Semitic attack in Literaturnaya Gazeta...
...vodka flowed, customary Russian conviviality was mixed with concern over the fate of Marchenko, jailed because of his prison camp memoirs, and similar worries about a host of other victims of the latest squeeze of Soviet repression. Tatyana Yankelevich, Sakharov's stepdaughter, who immigrated to Boston in 1977, angrily denounced Soviet officials who are "demonstrating their power on the bones of the best citizens of Russia." Biologist Vladimir Bukovsky, 38, who had spent nine years in Soviet prisons and camps before he was exchanged for a Chilean Communist in 1976, listed some of the dissidents who have recently been...