Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!krj From: krj@utcsrgv.UUCP (Ken Jackson) Newsgroups: net.general Subject: International Campaign Orlov/Shcharansky Message-ID: <4569@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 22:52:46 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.4569 Posted: Mon Jun 18 22:52:46 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 18-Jun-84 23:17:49 EDT Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 69 [--------------------------------------------------------------------] INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN ORLOV / SHCHARANSKY After the successful completion of the International Campaign Massera which ended on March 3, 1984, with the release of Professor Massera from prison in Uruguay, the International Campaign Orlov/Shcharansky was founded. The present campaign means to save these two scientists in the U.S.S.R. -- both adopted years ago by Amnesty International as prisoners of conscience -- by the same means. In pressing for their freedom, we expect to affect also the treatment of other prisoners of conscience in the U.S.S.R. When any government treats prisoners of conscience with cruelty, it earns the condemnation of decent people all over the world. When the Soviet authorities are shown that this is so, we hope that they will change -- in their own best interests -- and this will be a wonderful step in improving international relationships. This campaign should not be viewed as anti-Soviet or anti-communist: Professer Massera, whom we have just helped to free, is a leading member of the communist party in Uruguay. The goal of this campaign is purely humanitarian -- to support our colleagues who find themselves in less fortunate circumstances. The campaign is directed by Henri Cartan, Member de l'Academie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, Ancien president de l'Union mathematique international. 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. The campaign is supported by over 48 Nobel Laureates, 21 Presidents, Rectors, or Vice-Chancellors of Universities, 20 Fellows of the Royal Society (England), 27 Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, 9 Members of l'Academie des Sciences (France), as well as many other individuals and societies including The American Psychiatric Association, the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.), S.I.A.M. (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), the New Zealand Mathematical Society, the Norwegian Mathematical Society, and the New York Academy of Sciences. I feel it is particularly important that we as computer scientist support this campaign as Anatoly Shcharansky is a fellow computer scientist who was employed at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Oil and Gas until 1975. If you would like to receive the campaign bulletin (which contains a more complete description of the Orlov/Shcharansky cases and our campaign), be listed as a supporter of the campaign, and/or take a more active role in the campaign, please send electronic mail to Ken Jackson USENET { decvax linus ihnp4 allegra floyd utzoo decwrl garfield qucis cornell mcgill-vision sask watmath uw-beaver ubc-vision }!utcsrgv!krj CS NET krj@toronto ARPA krj.toronto@csnet-relay or regular mail to Professor Israel Halperin, 39 Elm Ridge Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6B 1A2 or telephone Professor Halperin at 416-782-8087.