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Later in the year, after the USSR banished Andrei D. Sakharov, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, to isolated Gorky, the Physics Department invited him to spend a semester here as a Loeb Lecturer...
...January 85 physicists from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent a telegram to the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences--of which Sakharov is a member--warning of a "serious deterioration" in U.S.-Soviet scientific exchanges unless Moscow reversed its decision to banish Sakharov...
...same time, Bok joined four other university presidents in sending a cable to Soviet Premier Leonid I. Brezhnev protesting Sakharov's banishment. In the spring, Harvard scientists joined 25 other members of the National Academy of Sciences in suspending all formal scientific exchange with the Soviet Union to protest that nation's treatment of dissidents...
Sources close to Massachusetts Hall speculate that Bok may award an honorary in abstentia to Nobel Prize Winning physicist, Andrei Sakharov, currently in exile in the Russian City of Gorki...
...done other things with his time--spend several years struggling with McLean? Malin, who is working on a book on world human rights based partially on his extensive travels, finds it "an unacceptable anomaly that while we condemn the authoritarian countries of the world for their repression of speech--Sakharov and the others--we allow a similar repression of speech in America's workplaces...