IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Sakharov removed from the limelight

Socialist Challenge No. 132, 31 January 1980 · p. 11 of the scan · 298 words

The scan: sc-n132-jan-31-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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Andrej Sakharoy is Games.

Dr. Sakharov, chauffeur-driven of Sciences.

His removal without trial was illegal leading families from the capital, extraordinarily AMID intriguing Izvestia suggestions that Dr.

American Mole, the creator of Moscow's nuclear bomb was forcibly removed from Moscow to Gorki last week. The party leadership wanted to ensure that its only world famous domestic opponent will be out of range of foreign TV cameras during the Olympic who was taken his car while on his way lo. the Academy of Sciences, will suffer little material hardship by being removed to a new flat in Gorki. And he has not been expelled from the Academy — a trial was obviously felt to be too costly — but it was a very different action from the sentences of exile to Siberia being meted out to lesser known political figures. Rather, it is in direct line with the old Tsarist practice of banning dissident members of has on offer.

political leader, Chaban-Delmas.

Gaullists realpolitik in human rights stricken attendance on the same plane.Timed so that it would compete with Afghan beadlines in the Western press, the action against Sakharov succeeded in torpedoing the Kremlin's single diplomatic triumph since Christmas - the friendly visit to Moscow of France's third-in-rank Moscow overlooked the fact that while the . are unashamed backers of national foreign policy, the French bourgeoisie is firmly committed to trying to use demagogy against its domestic labour movement. Chaban-Delmas had to retreat to Paris the day after he had arrived in Moscow, with the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister in panicMeanwhile the French desk in the Soviet foreign office must be wondering whether one of those who decided the timing of Dr. Sakharor's removal might not be the American Mole! SAKHAROY — removed from Moscow to Gorki

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