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12/4/12
The President has seen
6796 Redo
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
direct
December 4, 1981
ACTION
12
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
PR
FROM:
JAMES W. NANCE
The
SUBJECT:
Sakharov Hunger Strike
Andrei Sakharov, the leading Soviet human rights activist
and Nobel Prize Laureate, began a hunger strike on Saturday,
November 21, on behalf of his daughter-in-law, Elizaveta
Alekseeva. Soviet authorities have repeatedly refused to
grant her an exit visa to join her husband, Sakharov's step-
son, who presently is studying at Brandeis University.
Sakharov believes that his daughter-in-law is being punished
for his activities and has adopted the hunger strike as a
last desperate measure to influence the Soviet Government.
Over that weekend a telegram was sent to you and other heads
of state by 28 prominent scientists and scholars, twenty of
them Nobel Prize Laureates, urging you and them to intercede
on behalf of Sakharov (Tab B). Given the outstanding
achievements of Sakharov in the field of human rights causes
and his great friendship for the United States, it would be
most appropriate for you to release, as soon as possible, a
Presidential statement on Sakharov's behalf. A suggested
text is included at Tab A. Speechwriters have cleared the
text. The State Department concurs in this recommendation.
RECOMMENDATION
That you approve the Presidential statement at Tab A concerning
Andrei Sakharov.
Approve
RR
Disapprove
Attachments:
Tab A
Suggested Presidential Statement
Tab B
Copy of letter and telegram on Sakharov's behalf
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