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Sakharov, a preeminent Soviet nuclear physicist, became an outspoken critic of human rights violations in the former Soviet Union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize...
Sakharov spent many years trying to convince free nations like the United States to “stop supporting dictators, and the people will do the rest for themselves.” Sharansky was Sakharov’s spokesman before being imprisoned in the Soviet Union for almost a decade and eventually immigrating to Israel...
...voice of Sakharov was heard,” Sharansky said, pointing to former President Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech and criticism of Soviet human rights abuses...
...dealing with a recalcitrant North Korea, the Bush Administration might learn something from John F. Kennedy who, as a young President facing the formidable Soviet threat, said: "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." In its morbid fear of whatever nuclear arsenal North Korea may possess, the Bush Administration has been overly cautious about negotiating with North Korea, which, not unreasonably, is petrified of U.S. intentions and military strength following the Iraq war. With the greater fear in Pyongyang, the U.S. should refrain from issuing statements that only startle Kim, meanwhile putting aside...
...biggest name in law enforcement yet to give fiction a go. She began working for MI5 in 1965, when, as the wife of a British diplomat in New Delhi, she was hired as a local office clerk. Upon her return to London, she started spying on Soviet spies in Britain--and keeping her profession a strict secret. "Back then," says Rimington, "people tended to say they worked for the ministry of defense, but that invited questions like 'What do you do there?' So I had a variety of covers"--from military bootmaker to cosmetics-firm consultant...