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January 30, 1980
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Columbia University’s president-designate Michael Sovern has “most warmly” invited Andrei Sakharov, who was exiled last week from Moscow to Gorky in retaliation for his human rights advocacy, “to join this institution during the balance of 1980 as a Visiting Scholar.” This was announced at a campus rally for the banished Nobel Peace Prize winner organized by the university’s chapter of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.

CORRECTION: The report on Mercaz in the Jan. 28 Bulletin listed its membership as over 200. The correct figure is over 2000.

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