Word: sakharov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and urged him to take steps to improve relations with the U.S. As Kennedy understood it, the Soviet boss agreed to review the cases of 18 families who have been refused permission to emigrate. Later, the Senator met with a group of dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and the mother and brother of Anatoli Shcharansky, who has been sentenced to prison for his protests...
...considerable pressure on non-Communist repressive regimes in South Korea, Iran and Chile. But Moscow has seen itself as the main target. Indeed, Carter's most stirring statements and dramatic moves have involved Soviet dissidents. Shortly after taking office, the President sent a letter to Nuclear Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the U.S.S.R.'s most prominent dissident, and pledged to use the U.S.'s "good offices to seek the release of prisoners of conscience." An enraged Brezhnev warned Carter not to "interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union ... A normal development of relations on such a basis...
...Israel, came to show their sympathy for Shcharansky. They were Alexander Lerner, the former head of a cybernetics institute, and Veniamin Levich, one of the world's leading physical chemists. Both men were fired from their posts for seeking to emigrate to Israel. Near by stood Yelena Bonner Sakharov, one of the few members of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee who have not been arrested or deported, and her husband Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel-prizewinning physicist and human rights advocate...
...1960s, groups of intellectuals banded together to protest the large-scale arrests of nationalists in the Ukraine and the trial of Sinyavsky and Daniel. They were mostly writers, scientists, teachers and scholars. At first they began calling merely for greater intellectual and artistic freedom; later, such figures as Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn began asking for fundamental changes in Soviet society...
...happy because I have lived at peace with my conscience and I have never betrayed my conscience even when threatened with death. I am happy that I helped people, and I am proud to have met and worked with such honest and courageous people as Sakharov, Orlov and Ginzburg. I am happy to have witnessed the process of liberating Soviet Jewry...