The State - News from Jan. 30, 1987

Physicist Yuri Orlov, recently allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union, urged Americans to continue protesting the nuclear arms race, saying their voices are heard in the Kremlin. “The American left understands the Soviet system better than the right,” Orlov, 62, said through an interpreter at a joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Assn. of Physics Teachers in San Francisco. Orlov, a dissident arrested in 1978 on charges of anti-Soviet agitation, was released from a Siberian work camp and allowed to emigrate last October as part of a deal that freed American journalist Nicholas Daniloff from Moscow and returned accused Soviet spy Gennadi Zakharov to the United States. Protests in the United States against nuclear weapons and for human rights “are being followed very carefully--and jealously--by Soviets,” Orlov reported. “The voice of the left in the United States has much more effect in the Soviet Union than the voice of the right.”