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Brezhnev gave this interpretation some credence last week by delivering a particularly bellicose speech at a party meeting in Warsaw. In the very week that Andrei Sakharov was being prevented from going to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, the Soviet leader attacked Western critics who complain that Moscow has not been living up to the promises to expand personal freedoms that it made at the Helsinki Conference on European Cooperation and Security. He accused "some influential circles in the West" of waging "campaigns of misinformation, all sorts of pinpricks to ... poison the situation." Brezhnev charged that critics were...
...disgrace to the Soviet Union," a plainclothes security policeman told Andrei Sakharov last week as he barred the Russian nuclear physicist from attending the trial of a fellow dissident in Lithuania. At almost the same moment, at Oslo University, the Nobel Prize for Peace was given to Sakharov in absentia. He was the first Russian to be so honored (13 Russians have won prizes in the sciences and literature). Sakharov was prevented by the Kremlin from traveling to Oslo, ostensibly for "security" reasons...
...wife, who was allowed to leave Russia earlier for an eye operation, accepted the prize in his stead. Standing on a flower-bedecked podium, Yelena Bonner Sakharov smilingly received the gold Nobel medal and the $143,000 check that goes with it. Then she read the five-minute acceptance speech that her husband had managed to send out of the Soviet Union. Characteristically, Russia's most outspoken champion of civil liberties took the occasion to plead for a worldwide amnesty for political prisoners. He also expressed his "deep personal longing" for "genuine disarmament." After the ceremony, Yelena Sakharov watched...
When the award to Sakharov was announced in October, the Soviet press dismissed the Nobel Prize as "a cold war weapon" and denounced the five-member Nobel committee for "political speculating." Still, the Kremlin last week dispatched Economist Leonid Kantorovich to collect his own Nobel Prize in Stockholm (where all but the peace awards are distributed), and sent five former Russian winners as well...
Berlinguer has led the party in a series of other autonomous stands, notably a cautious defense of Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov and a plea to the regimes of Eastern Europe to liberalize. Obviously, Italy's unorthodox approach to Communism was not conducive to smooth negotiations for a Communist summit...