Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet dissident and winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, strongly condemned “acts of terror” by Jewish extremists against Soviet diplomatic missions and other targets in the United States and Western European countries.
Sakharov, who has championed the Jewish struggle for emigration and civil rights in the Soviet Union, wrote in the Norwegian magazine Nye Alle Menn, “By committing acts of terror, these people in reality harm both Soviet Jews and the struggle for human rights, which in principle and consequence is concentrated on non-violent methods.”
Sakharov said that he was “most seriously disturbed” during the past year by the spread of international terrorism. “I cannot but mention the delight one felt at the rescue operation by Israeli commandos at the Entebbe airport in Uganda,” he wrote. Sakharov’s manuscript, in Russian, was brought out of the Soviet Union by a reporter for the Norwegian magazine who was on assignment in Moscow last year.
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