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Demonstrators will march along the mall and pause in front of the Lincoln Memorial to hear several Soviet and American activists speak. including popular refusniks Ida Nudel. Natan Sharansky and Vladimir Slepak. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Weisel and Vice President George Bush will also appear...
Americans should not allow themselves to be blinded by the release of prominent Soviet dissidents and should continue to oppose oppression of Soviet Jewry, dissident Natan Sharansky told an audience of more than 300 people last night at Sever Hall...
Although the apartment was just past Central Square in Cambridge, Natan Sharansky's thoughts were back in the East, where he said the Soviet Union is at a "historic crossroads" and that decisions made in the next several months will determine the path that country will follow...
Sharansky, who criticized Soviet policies toward Jews before being charged with treason and sent to a labor camp in 1978, changed his first name from Anatoly to Natan--gift from God in Russian--after he was taken from prison, stripped of his citizenship, and flown in 1986 to Israel, where he now resides...
...opposition is our problem." Naum Meiman, an activist whose cancer-stricken wife died in Washington last week, just three weeks after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union for treatment in the U.S., described the recent changes as a "more sophisticated way of dealing with dissidents." But in Jerusalem, Natan Sharansky (who changed his name from Anatoli Shcharansky when he was released from Soviet detention and allowed to move to Israel last year) warned, "In some ways we can say that the situation is much more dangerous, because ((Gorbachev)) is more sophisticated in using the mass media of the West...