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...father of Ostpolitik, Chancellor Willy Brandt, expressed his "solidarity" with Sakharov and other dissidents "endangered because of their convictions." In ordinarily neutral Austria, Chancellor Bruno Kreisky called for a "democratic counterweight" to protect Russian libertarians like Sakharov. From Russia came a spirited defense of Sakharov by Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has been the target of Soviet vituperation since he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970. Last week he nominated Sakharov for the Nobel Prize for peace...
...dismiss domestic critics of the regime as foreign agents even as the state further terrorizes the dwindling band of dissidents. At the same time, a massive Soviet press campaign was mounted against the two towering spiritual leaders of Russia's "democratic movement," Physicist Andrei Sakharov and Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn. With an evident absence of spontaneity, hundreds of indignant letter writers spewed forth abuse against the two intellectuals in the pages of Pravda, Izvestia and other official newspapers. In part, the list of Sakharov's and Solzhenitsyn's accusers read like an "S. Hurok presents" concert program. Violinists...
Legal Action. This highly orchestrated campaign is obviously calculated to prepare public opinion for legal action against Sakharov, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, and Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prizewinning author. Just as obviously, bold recent statements by both men to foreign journalists have strained the Kremlin's tolerance close to the breaking point...
...Solzhenitsyn, he has tried to counter the attacks on his loyalty and integrity by revealing details of official harassment, including secret police threats to murder him and his family. In another statement issued to Western newsmen last week, he disclosed that a Leningrad woman had hanged herself after five days of interrogation by the KGB had forced her to reveal the whereabouts of a hidden Solzhenitsyn manuscript. Police seizure of this unpublished work-a documentary record of Stalinist concentration camps-has greatly alarmed the author because 200 of the prisoners he interviewed for the book are still alive. They...
...foreign observers were allowed in the courtroom. Tass reported that both men had freely confessed-in a manner that sounded reminiscent of Stalin's farcical purge trials of the '30s -to various acts against the state. In what seemed an attempt by the authorities to discredit Solzhenitsyn, their testimony supposedly described him as a sympathetic reader of a banned underground newspaper...