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Shcharansky, a computer scientist, was arrested in 1977 for treason, espionage, and anti-Soviet agitation while a member of a group monitoring Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act an agreement giving citizens the right to emigrate and join their lamellas abroad...
Specifically, the rally--sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel--protests the five-year imprisonment of Soviet scientist Anatoly Shcharansky. Shcharansky today enters the 30th consecutive day of a hunger strike he started to protest his treatment at the hands of Soviet officials. No Western analyst knows precisely how many other prisoners of conscience are kept in the U.S.S.R. today, but the facts of Shcharansky's case and others that have come to light offer a dismaying picture of Soviet ruthlessness towards discontented citizens...
...California man, repeatedly suspected of being connected to an American scientist group which claimed responsibility for the assassination of the Turkish Council in Boston last spring was asserted Friday night by FBI agents...
...purpose of the revolutionary experiment was to move the study of free radicals out of the laboratory, the 38 year-old scientist said "Predicting the future of the stratosphere is the crucial question and this can only be done by studying the behavior of free radicals in the stratosphere as well as specific reactions in the laboratory...
Furthermore, the academic and psychological losses incurred when a Soviet scientist is turned away at the laboratory, or when an American scientist is prevented from speaking at a symposium, weigh against problematic benefits. It is unclear, for one thing, to how much technical information Americans have exclusive access. As it became ridiculously clear during the recent Soviet pipeline affair, the Europeans can match the United States in many areas. And they seemed much less inclined to keep their prowess secret...