Word: wald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd of 150 stood in the rain or the steps of Mem Church to hear speeches by Wald, Rabbi Ben Zion Gold of Hillel House, and Chayin Spivakovaky, a Russian Jew imprisoned by the Soviet government for six years...
Four Harvard professors joined students at a rally the following day to continue the protest against Keldysh and the alleged anti-Jewish decree. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, criticized the head tax decree as a "ransom" educated persons must pay so they can emigrate...
...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology and 1967 winner of the Nobel prize in Medicine, voiced his disapproval of the "ransom" which educated persons must pay the Soviet government in order to emigrate. He was one of 21 Nobel Laureates to urge the repeal of the Soviet Head Tax in an advertisement in the October 1 edition of The New York Times...
...George Wald, Higgens Professor of Biology, and Edward M. Purcell, Gade University Professor both Nobel Laureates and President Bok have signed the petition to be presented to the Russians...
...speech. Wald described the Vietnam war as "domestic imperialism" practiced by the U.S. government against the American people...