1981-1984: INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN - PROFESSOR J.L. MASSERA (URUGUAY)
1984 - : INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN ~ ORLOV AND SHCHARANSKY (USSR)

 

39 Elm Ridge Orive
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6B 1A2
Telephone (416) 782-8087

BULLETIN of October-November 1985

 

These International Campaigns are directed by:

Henri Cartan, Membre de 1'Academie des Sciences de 1]‘Institut de France
Foreign Member The Royal Society, Foreign Associate National Academy Sciciices,
Ancien president de ]'Union mathematique internationale

Israel Halperin, Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada
Secretary of The Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars
Former Vice-President of The Canadian Mathematical Society

 

A statement published in Science, vol. 229, by the American physicist Thomas H. Sti
correctly expresses what is in the minds of millions of persons: We are driven
on each side by existing fear and mistrust.

From International Campaign-Orlov-and Shcharansky to Mikhail S. Gorbachev,
Secretary-General of the Communist party of the USSR, September 18, 1985:

We can understand that the Soviet people fear that the military forces that oppose
them might some day fall under the control of a fascist madman. You should under-
stand that we fear that the armed might of the USSR may come under the control of
the KGB. fhe irihumane treatment by the KGB of Soviet persons does such harm to

the interests of the USSR that it seems that the KGB is more concerned to strengthen
its hold on others in the USSR than it is concerned with the best interests of the
USSR.

We are not among those who want to use the issue of human rights as a trick for
political purposes. Mr. Vsevolod Sofinsky, the Head of your delegation to the
recent Ottawa Conference on Human Rights, published in our newspaper, the Globe

and Mail of August 7, 1985, the statement that, in the Soviet Union's view, human
rights are a significant element of relations between states. Until this statement
is matched by a change in the way persons are treated in the USSR by the KGB, we
are left to feel that our concern to achieve a serious basis of mutual trust is
treated by the USSR with contempt.

 

The International Campaign for Orlov and Shcharansky focuses the attention of
persons and organizations in many countries on this basic issue: will the USSR,
in its own best interests, recognize that it can only obtain the trust of others
by humane treatment of people?

 

From Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

All human beings are entitled to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or
degradi ng punishment.
2.

The Soviet authorities make it almost impossible to get reliable news concerning Orlov
and Shcharansky. Both continue to be in dangerously poor health and their release is

urgent.
Helsinki Watch, New York summarizes:

Born August 13, 1924. Physicist. Arrested February 10,

Yury Orlov.
ayy, Sentenced to seven years strict regime labor camp and five years
exile. Currently in Siberia, in Kobyay, Yakutskaya ASSR 678310, USSR.

Chronic cystitis, nephritis, other chronic illnesses.

Anatoly Shcharansky. Born January 20, 1948. Mathematician and
cyberneticist. Arrested March 15, 1977, sentenced to three years prison
and ten years strict regime labor camp. Vision deterioration, headaches,
heart ailments.

Or. Yury Orlov and Dr. Anatoly Shcharansky, both adopted as prisoners of conscience
by Amnesty International, are key cases (among many, many others) of persons
brutally punished for speaking out for freedom of thought and conscience.

This Campaign will continue to gather more and more supporters in many countries.
We will persist with publicity and regular Bulletins in several languages until
Orlov and Shcharansky are free and allowed to emigrate.

ORLOV TRUST FUND

In several countries, including Canada, scientists seek to arrange that permanent residence
be offered to the ORLOVS, when they are released (Canada has already offered permanent
residence to Anatoly Shcharansky).

Organizations and individuals are invited to send donations payable to: ORLOV TRUST FUND,
sent to Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars, 39 Elm Ridge Drive, Toronto,
Ontario, M6B 1A2 Canada. The Fund will be used exclusively to help rehabilitate Dr. and
Mrs. Yury Orlov wherever they reside, when released by the USSR.

If it turns out finally that the Fund cannot be used on behalf of the Orlovs, the donations
will be returned to the donors.

 

YOU_CAN HELP

For Orlov and Shcharansky, this is a critical time. We appeal to you: write urgently to
Mikahail S. Gorbachev, Secretary-General of The Communist Party, Kremlin, Moscow, USSR,
and express your determination to persist with this Campaign until Orlov and Shcharansky
are free.

Please help this Campaign by distributing copies of this Bulletin to friends and colleagues.

We are building a mighty voice of world-wide public opinion, which with dignity, without
violence, simply by persistence, will effectively oppose the plague of terrorism and torture
and oppression which is the horror of our time. If you can, please make a financial
contribution, payable to: ICOS (abbreviation for International Campaign - Orlov and Shcharan
to help pay expenses of postage and printing. —
From 85 Nobel Laureates to the USSR Academicians:

The undersigned Nobel Laureates ask you to use your influence to persuade your Government
to release Dr. Yury Orlov and Or. Anatoly Shcharansky.

P. Anderson M. Eigen Linus Pauling
C. B. Anfinsen A. P. Esquivel A. Penzias

K. Arrow P. Flory (since deceased) M.Perutz

J. Axelrod W. Fowler Sir G. Porter
D0. Baltimore M. Friedman R. R. Porter
Sir D. Barton Donald Glaser E. Purcell
Samuel Beckett S. Glashow J. Rainwater
B. Benacerraf R. Granit T. Reichstein
P. Berg G. Herzberg A. Sakharov (representative)
H. Bethe R. Holley P. Samuleson
K. Bloch DO. Hubel. A. Schawlow
N. Bloembergen Sir A. Huxley F. Sanger

B. Blumberg F. Jacob R. Schrieffer
H. B&1! (since deceased) Sir B. Katz K. Siegbahn
H. Brown Brian Josephson H. Simon

Sir M. Burnet A. Klug G. Snell
Adolf Butenandt A. Kornberg R. Sperry

S. Chandrasekhar F. Lipmann H. Taube

C. Cori (since deceased) W. Lipscomb H. Temin

Leon Cooper A. . Lwoff J. Tinbergen
A. Cormack A. Martin N. Tinbergen
Sir J. Cornforth James Meade J. Tobin

A. Cournand Sir P. Medawar Lord A. Todd
F. Crick S. v.d. Meer C. Townes

J. Dausset C. Milosz G. Wald

G. Debreu P, Mitchel] P. White

R. Dulbecco Sir N. Mott T. Wiesel

Sir J. Eccles D. Nathans R. Wilson

G. Palade

Six Foreign Members of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR now support International
Campaign-Orlov and Shcharansky. We urge all Foreign Members of that Academy to speak out,
to use their influence with the Soviet authorities.

Who supports this Campaign?
Persons and Organizations listed as supporters of this Campaign are not responsible for

material printed in the Bulletins. They are simply expressin publicly and collectively,
their strong opinion that the USSR ought to release Bricy and Shcharansky.

Among the thousands of supporters are the 85 Nobel Laureates who sent a message to Soviet
Academicians and the following organizations:

 

Swiss Academy of Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences
New York Academy of Sciences Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Human Rights Committee of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.)

The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

American Association For the Advancement of Science ©

and....
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Supporting Organizations continued...

National Physical Societies of: Norway, France, Germany, Israel, U.S.A., New Zealand,
Denmark, Switzerland

National Mathematical Societies of: Norway, Sweden, Italy, Israel, Chile, Denmark, Irelan
U.S.A., Brazil, New Zealand, Edinburgh, Calcutta, Canada, Switzerland

National Applied Mathematical Societies of: Canada, Brazil, U.S.A. (SIAM)

Mathematics Departments of: Federal University Rio de Janeiro, Warwick University,
Newcastle (Australia), Clausthal (Germany), University of New South Wales (Australia)

Mathematics Division of the Royal Society of Canada
American Statistical Society

Chemical Institute of Canada

Classical Society of Canada

Canadian Ethnology Society

Canadian Educational Researchers Association

American Educational Researchers Association

European Working Group on Statisticians and Human Rights
Committee on Scientific Freedom (Association of Computing Machinery)
Swedish Committee for Freedom of Science

Committee of Concerned Scientists (U.S.A.)

Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars

Yury Orlov. Committee (Switzerland)

German Committee of University Scientists

Sakharov, Orlov, Shcharansky Committee (U.S.A.)

Comite des Physiciens (France)

Comite des Mathematiciens (France)

British Mensa Human Rights Group .
Department of linguistics and philology, University of Montreal
Committee For The Defence of Unjustly Accused

Movement international des Juristes Catholiques

Alpha Omega (dental) Fraternity (Toronto)

Physicians Against Psychiatric Torture (Canada)
Canadian Labour Congress

Ontario Federation of Labour

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (Canada)
United Steelworkers (Canada)

Legislature of Ontario

Senate of Memorial University (Canada)

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Canadian Psychiatric Association

American Psychiatric Association

The Canadian Physfological Society

The Council of the Swiss Psychiatric Society

Canadian Association of University Teachers

American Association of University Professors

U.K. Association of University Teachers

Australian Federation of University Staff Associations

Faculty Associations of Canadian Universities: Toronto, Waterloo, Brock, Carleton, Calgary,
Bishop's. McMaster, Mt. Allison, Memorial, Winnipeg, Regina, Technical University of Nova
Scotia, British Columbia, Manitoba, Mt. St. Vincent, Windsor, Trent, Western Ontario,
Victoria, Queen's, St. Thomas (N.B.), Lethbridge

and also....
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(ii)

Leaders in the Churches

The Cardinal, Louis Albert Cardinal Vachon

Most Rev. Or. John Habgood, Archbishop of York, U.K.

Most Rev. Archbishop Edward Scott, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
Most Rev. Archbishop Trevor Huddleston

Bishops: Eric Kemp (Chichester), David Sheppard (Liverpool), Keith Arnold (Warwick),
M.A, Feughen (Chester), P.K. Walker (Ely), John Trillo (Chelmsford), John O'Mara
(Thunder Bay), Adolphe Proulx (Hull, Canada), Rt. Rev. J. Bickersteth (Bath and Valls)
Ronald Bowlby (Southwark), J.B. Taylor (St. Albans), J.A. Baker (Salisbury), Colin
James (Winchester), Jean Guy Hamelin (Rouyn-Noranda, Canada).

Moderators of United Church of Canada: Robert Smith, Clarke MacDonald
President of The World Council of Churches: Lois Wilson
President-Designate of the British Methodist Mission: Hughes Smith
President of The Lutheran Church (Canada): Robert Binhammer

National Superior of English Jesuits, Canada: William Addley, S.J.

President of the Canadian Council of Churches: Russel] Legge

Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec: Rev. A.E. Coe

Methodist Church of U.K. : The Rev. The Lord Soper
Chairman Birmingham Methodist District (U.K.): C. Hughes Smith

Presidents, Principals, Rectors, Vice-Chancellors of Universities

 

Edward Bloustein (Rutgers) Lloyd Barber (Regina)
Derek Bok (Harvard W.. Beckel (Carleton)
Jill Conway (Smith J. Daniel (Laurentian)
R.M. Cyert (Carnegie-Mellon) R. Farquar (Winnipeg)

Lord Brian Flowers (Imperial, U.K.) Gilles Boulet (Quebec a Sainte-Foy, Canada)
Manfred Fricke (Tech. Univ., Berlin) E.M. Gulton (Mt. St. Vincent, Canada)

E. Handler (Brandeis) Leslie Harris (Memorial)
T. Hesburgh (Notre Dame) M. Horowitz (Alberta)

H. Kelm (Frankfurt) R. Tanni (Windsor

Sir Roy Marshall (Hull, U.K.) P. Keniff (Concordia)
Roy Miller (Royal Holloway) A.A. Lee (McMaster)

Paul Olum (Oregon) G. Massicotte (Rimouski)
J.A. Pinotti (Campinas, Brazil) 8.C. Matthews (Guelph)
Michael Sovern (Columbia) P. Meincke (P.E.I.)

Naimark (Manitoba)

Julius Stratton (Emeritus, M.I.T.) A.

G. Pedersen (Western Ontario)
H.
W.

J. Timm (Bremen)
Maurice Shock (Leicester)
W. Alexander Mackay (Dalhousie)

Petch (Victoria, B.C.)
Saywell (Simon Fraser)

James Downey (New Brunswick) J.T. Spinks (Emeritus, Saskatchewan)
J.H. Woods (Lethbridge) B. Segal (Ryerson)

Aldee Cabana (Sherbrooke) N. Wagner (Calgary)

Louis Philippe Blanchard (Moncton) D. Wright (Waterloo)

D. Strangway (elect, British Columbia) B. Shapiro (0.1.S.E.)

Robert Smith (British Columbia) D. Theall (Trent

Harry Arthurs (York) P. Garigue (Glendon, Canada)

Harry Woolf (Director, The Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey)
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Other Members. of L'Academie des Sciences (France)

 

Alain Connes (Fields Medalist) J. H. Oort Henri Cartan
Laurent Schwartz (Fields Medalist) Jacques Tits Edgar Lederer
Pierre Deligne (Fields Medalist) Rene Lucas W.T. Koiter

Rene Thom (Fields Medalist) Francis Perrin Robert d'‘Aubigne
Jean Ojeudonne Pierre Lepine Alfred Jost
Andre Lichnerowicz J.C. Pecker

Etienne Baulieu Gustave Choquet

Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science:

F.W.E. Gibson, FRS S.J. Redman J.A.F.P. Miller, FRS
James Michael G.E. Rogers Alan Sargeson
Bruce G. Hyde G.B. Sharman B. Newnann, FRS
G.M. Kelly William Levick, FRS A. Kerr

268 Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, including:
The President Prof. Alexander G. McKay, and

Z.S. Basinski, FRS Paul De Mayo, FRS Robert Langlands, FRS
R.E. Bell, FRS O. McLaren, FRS A. Litherland, FRS
H.S.M. Coxeter, FRS John Polanyi, FRS Louis Siminovitch, FRS
R.G. Gillespie, FRS J.H. Quastel, FRS H.G. Thode, FRS

C.S. Hanes, FRS D.A. Ramsay, FRS Tuzo Wilson, FRS
Donald Hebb, FRS Harold Copp, FRS

Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Laureate, FRS

(September 12, 1985, from President McKay: Council encourages the President to
suggest to all Fellows of the Society that they consider joining the Campaign in
support of these persecuted academics)

190 Fellows of The Royal Society including the President Sir Andrew Huxley, Nobel
Laureate, and the past-president Lord Alexander Todd, Nobel Laureate and 40 other
Nobel Laureates.

Members of The Royal Irish Academy
Thomas J. Laffey, J.R. McConnell, O.J. Sims, T.T. West

(viii) Other Mathematicians (to name only a few)

Fields Medalists: Lars Ahlfors, Paul Cohen, Charles Fefferman, David Mumford,
Stephen Smale, William Thurston, John G. Thompson

Nathan Jacobson, Jacob Schwartz, Dennis Sullivan, Leopoldo Machbin, Jean Cert,

R.D. Grigorieff, Robert Edwards, Lipman Bers, Barry Mazur, Edward Nelson, D. Woodhouse,
Gyorgy Targonski, Beno Eckmann, William Lambert, Bertrand Mond, Mischa Cotlar,

Leon Kushner, Bruce Calvert, Shokichi Iyanaga, H.H. Kairies, Q. Penrose, Pierre Samuel,
John M. Howie (Vice-President London Mathematical Society), Robert S. Anderssen
(President, Australian Mathematical Society) Kenichi Shiraiwa, Udo Simon, Ralph Bradley,
Roberto Conti, Carl Faith, Ubiratan D'Ambrozio, Tang Che-hong
(ix) Other Physicists (to name only a few)

(x)

Robert Marshak
Elliott Lieb
Paul Kessler
Kurt Gottfried
Eduardo Amaldi
John Ziman

8B. Bleaney
Brian Josephson
J.F. Nye

Mildred Oresselhaus

Herman Feshback
A.D. Yoffe
Victor Weisskopf
Pierre Hohenberg
Grenville Turner
V. Heine

G.D. Rochester
Sir Brian Pippard

Rudolph Haag
Maurice Goldfarb
Norman Ramsey
J.P. Mathieu
David Tabor

John S. Bell
J.S. Mitchell

H. Lipson
Charles Nelson

W.T. Koiter

Ephriam Katzir (former President
J.H. Oort

A.J. Leggett
of Israel)

Thomas H. Stix

In other walks of life (to name a few)

Lord Avebury, England

Lord Butterworth, England

Or. Thomas Bewley, President Royal College of Psychiatrists (U.K.)
Francis Low, Provost, M.I.T.

Noam Chomsky, linguistics, M.I.T.

Dr. Fred Lowy, Dean of Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Or. V. Rakoff, Chairman, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Simon Levin, Ecology, Cornell

Charles Yanofsky, Biology, Stanford

R.H. Haynes, Biology, York University, Canada

Gregory Viastos, Philosophy, Berkeley

Tom Stoppard, CBE, FRSL, playwright

Arthur Miller, playwright

Marion Andre, playwright

W.C. Royster, Dean, University of Kentucky

Ernst Deutsch, geophysics, Memorial University

Ursula Franklin, metallurgy, University of Toronto

Sir Clive Sinclair, U.K. °

John Beckwith, composer, Canada

Stewart Smith (President Science Council, Canada) FRSC

Pierre Juneau (President C.B.C., Canada) FRSC.

Pierre Bois (President Medical Research Council, Canada) FRSC

Leo Yaffe, chemistry, McGill, FRSC

Jean Dresch, Paris (Foreign Member, USSR Acad. of Sciences)

M.P, C.K): J.F. Pawsey; Alan Haslehurst; Robert Hicks; Rt. Hon. P.J. Thomas, Q.C.;
t n. Reg. Prentice; Rt. Hon. Sir Bernard Braine, DL; Hon. Greville Janner, Q.C.,¢.P

Canadian Mayors: Al Gleeson (London), John Murphy (St. John's), Norm Jary (Guelph),
Angus Campbell (Pembroke), Marion Dewar (Ottawa), Robert Morrow (Hamilton), Michel Leger
(Hull), Michael Harcourt (Vancouver), Arthur Eggleton (Toronto), Manning MacDonald (Svdne
William Smeaton (Niagara Falls), Bob Barker (Peterborough), Audrey Green (Refrew),
Gilles Beaudoin (Trois Rivieres), John Gerretsen (Kingston), Ron Wallace (Halifax).

Yvon Beaulne, former Canadian Ambassador to the Human Rights Commission of the U.N.
Gisele Cote-Harper, former Canadian Member of the Human Rights Committee, U.N.
Margaret Atwood, President of Canadian Centre of P.E.N.

Hugh MacLennan, former President of Canadian Centre of P.E.N.

Writers: Pierre Berton, Robertson Davies, June Callwood, Susan Sontag
Pianists: Anton Kuerti, Leon Pommers

John Meisel, former President of CRTC, FRSC

Robert Kates, NASc., geographer

Sigmund Skard, Academician (0slo)

Peter Reddaway (London School of Economics)

Gershon Iskowitz, artist

Harold Town, artist
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Johnny Lombardi, President Radio Station CHIN

Roger Coull, P.C. Gallaway, Martin Thomas, David Curtis, (Coull String Quartet)
Dennis McDermott, President, Canadian Labour Congress

Gerard Docquier, National Director, United Steelworkers of America
Clifford Pilkey, President, Ontario Federation of Labour

Sam Fox, Co-Director, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
Antonio Maria Pereira (lawyer, Lisbon, Portugal )

John Humphrey (professor of law, McGill University)

Group Captain Paul Harris, D.F.C.

Professor H.L. Price, Ph.D., C.Eng., F.R.Ae.S., F.I.M.A.

Northrop Frye (Canada)

Guido Clemente (Italy) .

Moshe Sadfie, architect, Harvard

Or. Per Wastberg, President, International Writers Organization, P.E.N.
Karen Kennerly, Exec. Director, American Center P.E.N.

TO ASSIST THIS CAMPAIGN: Increase circulation of the Bulletin. Use your own initiative in
publicizing the cases of Orlov and Shcharansky. Ask persons and organizations to list as
supporters. Write to the Ambassador of the USSR in the capital city of your country about
these cases.

You_can correspond with our Toronto address or with:

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Dr. Miles Reid, Math, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England

Prof. Paul Kessler, College de France, 11 P1. Marcelin-Berthelot, 75231 Paris, Fran
Prof. Kenichi Shiraiwa, MATH, College Gen. Education, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku
Nagoya 464, Japan

Comite Orlov, C.P. 335, 1217 Meyrin 1, Switzerland

Prof. A. de Oliveira, Rua Dos Arneiros, 28-3 C. Lisboa, Portugal

Prof. Carlos Coimbra, SBMAC, Rua Lauro Muller 455,22290 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prof. Ubjratan D'Ambrosio, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazi1

Prof. Warren Ambrose, MATH, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.

Prof. Shlomo Sternberg, MATH, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, U.S.A.

Dr. K. Solomon, M.D., 6501 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MO 21204, U.S.A.

Prof. Robert Edwards, 86 Vasey Cresc., Campbell, ACT 2601, Australia

Wilfred D'Costa, 344/1 Hall Road, Kurla, Bombay 400070, India

Prof. Dr. Udo Simon, Tech. Univ. Berlin, Strasse 17 juni 135, 1000 Berlin 12, FRG.

When Orlov and Shcharansky are free, but only when they are free, we will
launch an International Campaign for the actress carmen Bueno, who was
abducted and disappeared in Chile in November 1974. Her case symbolizes the
horrible practice by which official governments use unofficial agents to

murder persons not in favour.

May we list you as a supporter of the Campaign for Carmen Bueno, when it begins?