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...atmosphere in the Norway Suite of Oslo's Scandinavia Hotel was tense. The occasion: a press conference for Cardiologists Dr. Bernard Lown of the U.S. and Dr. Yevgeni Chazov of the Soviet Union, co-chairmen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the group that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Journalists were haranguing Chazov for having signed a 1973 letter that attacked Andrei Sakharov, the dissident Soviet physicist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. Suddenly, a Soviet television reporter collapsed onto the floor...
Lown and Chazov tore off their suit jackets, sprang from the podium and, along with other IPPNW physicians in the room, gave the fallen man cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The victim, Lev Novikov, 60, was put on a stretcher and taken to an Oslo hospital, where officials reported that he had suffered a heart attack. Novikov was later described as out of danger. Skeptics said that his collapse may have been staged, an allegation that Lown called "perverse." Concluded Chazov: "To win over death--you have now witnessed that it goes well for Soviets and Americans to cooperate in this task...
...prize to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the choice hardly seemed controversial. In a gesture of East-West amity, Soviet Cochairman Dr. Yevgeni Chazov and his U.S. counterpart, Dr. Bernard Lown, were named as recipients. A delighted Soviet government decided to allow its ambassador in Oslo to attend the Dec. 10 ceremonies. Moscow had boycotted Nobel proceedings since 1975, when Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov was awarded the coveted prize...
...announcement from Oslo was a personal triumph for Bernard Lown of Boston and Yevgeni Chazov of Moscow, the cardiologists who have presided over the antiwar organization from its beginning. The two met in 1960 and got to know each other at international professional conferences over the next two decades. They launched IPPNW in hopes of slowing the arms race. With headquarters in Boston and a branch in London, it now claims the support of 135,000 physicians and health-care professionals in 41 nations (60,000 doctors in the Soviet Union alone, according to Chazov). The Nobel judges lauded...
Treholt, then head of the Foreign Ministry's press office, was arrested in 1984 in Oslo just before boarding a plane for Vienna and an alleged meeting with a KGB general. He was carrying a briefcase crammed with 65 classified documents. "I wanted to arrange better relations betweeen East and West," he said, "but that does not make me a spy." The Norwegian court disagreed and sentenced him to a maximum 20 years in prison...